Rediscovering the Meaning of Diversity: Lessons from Generation X Gen X is young enough to take civil rights and integration for granted—but old enough to appreciate how much progress America has made Monica Harris 28 Feb 2024 · 10 min read
The Disaster Artist Was Liz Truss Britain’s first affirmative-action prime minister? Laurie Wastell 7 Oct 2023 · 10 min read
The Peculiar Silence in the Students for Fair Admissions Decision Are racial preferences in university admissions really dead? Ethan Blevins 16 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT. Margaret Wente 2 Dec 2022 · 10 min read
It May Not Be Possible to Achieve Racial Equity in American Scientific Research “NIH Stands Against Structural Racism in Biomedical Research.” This was the title of a statement [https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-stands-against-structural-racism-biomedical-research] released on March 1st, 2021, by Francis S. Collins, who was then the Director of the National Institutes of Health. The statement continued: > As a Robert J. Morris 11 Mar 2022 · 9 min read
The Pretext of Diversity in American Universities A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives. Kenneth R. Pike 6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read
Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity The available numbers don’t tell us if there was any evidence of systemic bias in the underlying grant criteria, or in the evaluation of applications against those criteria. Lawrence M. Krauss 17 Dec 2021 · 5 min read
Affirmative Action Conundrums Kendi’s defensive salvo raises broader issues about affirmative action. Oliver Traldi 12 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Toxic Masculinity and Gender Equity in the Australian Defence Force If the intentions of senior military leadership are not so self-aggrandising and opportunistic, then they are at least ignorant of the underlying dynamics and complexities of gender equality in an environment as unique as the military. Luke J. Graham 1 Aug 2018 · 7 min read
Unmaking Affirmative Action The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action. Stephen T. Asma 27 Jul 2018 · 11 min read