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In research this post earlier today on The Consortium’s practice of racial preference in awarding grants to business school applicants I ran across this article celebrating Merrill Lynch’s gift of $1 Million to another organization with a similar name doing the same thing. The Business Consortium Fund is a not-for-profit business development organization affiliated with [...]

Facts, apparently. As Peter Schmidt reports today in the Chronicle of Higher Education, California trial judge in San Francisco has denied UCLA law prof Richard Sander and his colleagues access to California Bar Association data about bar passage rates, etc. You would think that those ideologues and scholars (and ideological scholars) who have argued that [...]

If you’ve wondered whether there’s a civil right to light, or even if you haven’t, see the ADDENDUM to this post.

“Leaders of the University of California,” the Chronicle of Higher Education reports today, have “proposed revising admissions policies systemwide to increase the enrollment of minority students.” Leaving aside the question of whether it is legal to devise a policy for the purpose of admitting more minority students, the racialist assumptions underlying UC’s rationale for “holistic” [...]

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post columnist and editorial board member, has an unusually harsh indictment of Obama today on Post Partisan, a Post blog, calling him “ideological — and vindictive.” Actually, that’s about the nicest thing he says about him. Obama’s demand, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that Israel reverse its decision on the new [...]