Broder Broods
Columnist David Broder describes the recent decision of the Democratic National Committee to insert caucuses in Nevada between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and to add South Carolina right after New Hampshire in order to make the nominating process more “representative” as a “Democratic version of affirmative action,” which he regards as […]
Ode To Discrimination
The author of a disturbing article in the Sept. 1 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education is identified as follows: The soprano Eileen Strempel is an assistant professor of fine arts in the College of Arts and Sciences and assistant to the dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. […]
Surprise! Subsidies “Work”!
Every year educators in states that have banned racial preferences, California and Washington, are newly shocked and newly outraged that the forced (by voters) elimination of racial preferences resulted in there being fewer students from the formerly favored groups. I suspect we would fire any economists who professed similar surprise that, say, subsidies to peanut […]
You Can’t Say, Or Show, That!
Daniel Golden and Jeff Jacoby have excellent recent columns demonstrating that textbook publishers, consciously if not maliciously, reinforce racial and ethnic stereotypes. In these columns they echo the work of Diane Ravitch, in her book The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. (Also see this fine column by Ravitch with examples from […]
MCRI Survives A Deeply Flawed Opinion
U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Tarnow gave opponents of MCRI everything they wanted yesterday … except victory. The ruling allows MCRI to remain on the ballot because, among other reasons, the argument that the signature-gathering process (508,000 were gathered; 317,000 were needed) somehow violated the Voting Rights Act was a non-starter. Still, in the very […]
The Zoo Keepers Of Kalamazoo
The editors of the Kalamazoo Gazette ask their readers to Imagine a world where the playing field is level, where all people — without regard to race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin — are hired solely on the virtue of their merits. Imagine a world where people can compete on an equal footing for […]
Contraceptive Discrimination
Chetly Zarko points out that the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, which up to now has been busy trying to prevent the citizens of Michigan from having an opportunity to amend their constitution to prevent discrimination based on race or gender, has discovered a new problem in need of its solutions: contraceptive discrimination. At its August […]
CBS: Leader Or Follower Down Slippery Slope?
CBS has revealed that the next season of “Survivor” will feature race-based teams, and the New York City Council is up in arms. (HatTip to Drudge) NEW YORK (AP) – As CBS prepares to launch a new season of the hit reality show “Survivor,” this time featuring teams divided by race, enraged city officials are […]
The DNC’s Exclusive Inclusion
Once again the Democratic National Committee is tripping over itself, and its constituent groups, to extend the reach of its “inclusion.” I have written before about the Democratic Party’s quotas for its convention delegates (here and here). Although the Dems, like most quota-mongers prefers to speak of “goals,” goals with penalties for not reaching are […]
Racial School Assignment Update
The Supreme Court consideration of racial school assignment, last discussed here, is starting to generate more comment. Following the points made in his excellent brief, linked above, Hans Bader asks on the CEI blog: Should a school district that teaches that individualism is racism, that planning ahead is for whites only, and that only whites […]
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