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This morning the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on yet another study that confirms Asians benefit much more than whites when racial preference policies are eliminated. In fact, the proportion of whites admitted often decreases when race preferences are curtailed. An earlier study, discussed here, found that when one group loses ground, another has to [...]

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, former George Washington University president with impeccable Ivy League credentials (Columbia College, Harvard MPA, Yale Law), writes on the Chronicle of Higher Education blog that campus political correctness and speech codes worked. True, he recognizes that it’s good news that political correctness seems to have run its course, because it “turned out [...]

According to a Duke University professor, Obama has gained the support of a new generation of young blacks precisely because of his “color-blind” approach to politics. A large majority of the young Democrats who cast ballots in the South Carolina primary voted for Barack Obama. That’s because Obama’s largely “color-blind” approach to racial issues may [...]

George Will has a terrific column today on the initiatives to ban racial preference that are attempting to be placed on the ballots of five states next November. He excoriates (almost as much as they deserve) the Missouri Democrats who have tried — so far unsuccessfully — to defeat the initiative there by rewriting it, [...]

When Democratic politicians, pundits, and the press are not battling over race and gender, over whether blacks have been “disrespected” more than women, or vice versa, they all tend to congratulate themselves for being on the verge of “making history,” of nominating a black or a woman to be president. That is certainly about to [...]