Liberals And Free Speech
In an interesting post today, Ilya Somin criticizes President Obama’s assertion, in his inaugural address, that “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.” Here’s Somin: This is a commonly heard argument in response to concerns about the growth of government. Who could […]
Duties Of A “Diversity Provost”?
Ever wonder what a “Diversity Provost” does? Purdue University, which is looking for one, apparently isn’t too sure (HatTip to a vigilant reader). Purdue University invites nominations and applications for the position of Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion (VPDI). This position was created as part of the New Synergies Strategic Plan and seeks to […]
Democrats And Equality
Referring to a host of Inaugural balls that sported exclusive VIP sections, Mickey Kaus asked, “how can a party claim to want all Americans treated equally if, you know, the party doesn’t treat them equally?” Easy. The same way a party can claim to oppose quotas but require them in the selection and seating of […]
Istook Is Not Mistook
Ernest Istook, who describes himself in this interesting piece (HatTip to Roger Clegg) as “now recovering after 14 years in Congress,” has some good advice for President Obama. What began as affirmative action has transformed into reverse discrimination. Obama’s unique background gives him undeniable credibility to confront and correct this, and he’s dropped hints that […]
Is Justice “Diverse”?
An academic friend who prefers to remain anonymous (you would, too, if you taught where he does) pointed me to a new report, Improving Judicial Diversity, recently published by the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School. Given the degree of diversity of political opinion in most elite law schools like NYU, you […]
More “Sensible Prescriptions” From Roger Clegg
Yesterday I discussed (here) what I termed a few “Sensible Prescriptions For Change We Can Believe In” that Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, had posted on National Review Online. NRO’s John Derbyshire posted some surprisingly lame criticism’s of Clegg’s comments here, and Clegg posted an unsurprisingly strong reply […]
Improving The Education Of All Students Is Unfair!
Because of my daily wanderings through the museum of contemporary liberalism — especially its attitudes regarding race, discrimination, etc. (whose ever-changing but always familiar exhibits are on display in politics and in the mainstream, academic, and specialized media), I have long since lost whatever capacity I might have had in the past to be shocked […]
Sensible Prescriptions For Change We Can Believe In…
Roger Clegg writes today that “[a] realistic goal” for our race relations “would be for being black to be roughly analogous to being Irish.” Now, if I didn’t know and admire Roger I would worry about that prescription. I would worry that he meant that Irish-Americans (and, by extension, Luso-Americans, Jews, Catholics, etc.) should be […]
Roger Clegg Objects To Bean-Counting
The following is a Guest Post from Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center For Equal Opportunity. NOW THAT BARACK OBAMA IS PRESIDENT, MAY WE PLEASE STOP THE BEAN-COUNTING? The Washington Post had an editorial last month, “Bean Counting, 2008,” about the relative ease with which President-elect Obama is putting together an administration […]
The Politics Of Obama’s Religion
Mark Tooley, who directs the United Methodist Church program at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, asks, “Where Will The Obamas Worship?” His answer seems to be, at the site that, “after careful political contemplations,” sees the most politically efficacious. Where will President Barack Obama attend church in Washington? Thanks to revelations about the Rev. […]
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