Here is your assignment for today: step into a time capsule; transport yourself back to 1969; write a critique of the then-new experiment in affirmative action, using all the knowledge you took with you on your journey of how that experiment has turned out.
If your critique is very, very good, it will look a lot like the criticism (which I discuss here on National Review Online’s Phi Beta Cons) written by a California judge in a letter to the dean of an Ivy League law school. You will also be struck by the similarity of that dean’s vapid and non-responsive reply to the arguments of defenders of racial preferences today.
