On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that its embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s all but assuredly forced “resignation” followed an outpouring of disgust from Americans revolted by her…
The collegiate brouhaha over the landmark Supreme Court decision striking down race-based affirmative action in college admissions has revealed the true colors of the supposed crème de la crème of American higher education. Let me share the views of four…
Many people in our polarized world rage over the idea that balance means compromising on principles. Give them their due: compromise on principle is evidence of moral weakness. Afraid to stand up for what is right, the compromiser temporizes, creates…
Race isn’t the biggest issue at the Ivy Leagues, despite what some may think. My class began predictably. The professor exposed the deep racism, sexism, and homophobia of a previous generation. My classmates knew their role all too well and…
Just when I begin to think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has escaped the gravitational pull of his party, he crashes back to earth with a thud. Grounding Kennedy this time was affirmative action. Last Thursday, he weighed in on…
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” in order to salvage…
One supposes it’s a good, and quite fitting, thing that it was higher education that served as the medium for the Supreme Court’s ending of affirmative action in America. You’ve probably read all you needed to on that subject. If…
“Affirmative Action” never was affirmative. From the day of its inception, it closed doors to people who had worked hard all their lives to excel and succeed. It imposed barriers against those who had earned success, while it advantaged less…
The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed explicit racism in college admissions on Thursday. This naturally outraged those so obsessed with outlawing explicit racism in college admissions that they instituted it. The dissent defends, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the Students…
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the substitution of race for merit when it ruled against Harvard University’s use of racial preferences in admissions. “I write,” Justice Clarence Thomas states in his concurring opinion, “to clarify that all forms of…