A Putrid Pollution Decision From EPA
From Roger Clegg, President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, posted with permission: The Color of Pollution The federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release last week regarding the successful resolution of a complaint it had filed against the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. The complaint asserted “that CDPR’s annual renewal […]
Still More Food For Thought (This Time, If You’re On A High-Fiber Diet)
[NOTE: This has been cross-posted on the National Association of Scholars site as Eating Together.] About a week ago, in More “Food For Thought” From Sociology (If You’re On A Starvation Diet), I discussed a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association whose authors argued (hold on to your hats!) that students […]
Why Should Fire Departments Diversify?
The New York Times ran a story on Friday, A Fire Department Under Pressure to Diversify. It described at great length and some depth the ongoing legal action to require the New York City Fire Dept. to hire more blacks and even presented fairly the arguments of some of the NYFD’s defenders. What it did not […]
Hound Of The Baskervilles? Who, Me?
Yesterday on National Review Online’s Phi Beta Cons George Leef compared me, in the nicest possible way, to the Hound of the Baskervilles and referred to himself, with commendable but misplaced humility and modesty, as a Yorkshire Terrier. I appreciate his effort, but there’s one problem: I know Yorkshire Terriers, and George Leef is no […]
STEM Women: Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Does romance hinder STEM women? Do you want to read more about the “underrepresentation” of women in STEM fields than you already have? If so, hasten over to Minding The Campus and read my essay there. (Initially there was a formatting problem — the block quotes weren’t blocked, etc. — but that’s now been fixed, […]
Cross-Posted at National Association Of Scholars
More “Food For Thought” (If You’re On A Starvation Diet), below, has been cross-posted on the National Association of Scholars site, here.
Prejudice?
In terms of pure prejudice, is there any significant difference between saying Perry is “too Texan” to get elected president and Obama is too black? Between saying “we’ve just had one miserable Texan president; we don’t need to risk another one” and saying in the future, “we’ve just had a miserable black president; we don’t […]
Yes, The Earth Moved…
My wife, dog, cat, and I live about 12 miles west of Charlottesville, which seems to situate us around 40-50 miles from the epicenter of this afternoon’s 5.8 earthquake. We all came through it fine (though both Mosby The Dog and his people were scared); thanks to those of you who’ve asked. I experienced several […]
More “Food For Thought” From Sociology (If You’re On A Starvation Diet)
Yesterday, in Leave It To The Sociologists…, I discussed a paper from the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association whose findings were, well, less than surprising. Since that gathering is apparently a bubbling cauldron of such findings, today I’d like to discuss two more. In “Food For Thought,” Inside Higher Ed reported, Maria Lowe […]
Leave It To The Sociologists…
Who else but sociologists would think a paper arguing that “black and Latino students with academic credentials equal to those of white students are slightly more likely than their white counterparts to apply to and enroll at selective colleges” is noteworthy enough to present at a discipline’s annual convention? Might that unsurprising fact be because […]
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