Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
Erec Smith
· 9 min read
Affirmative Action
A collection of 15 posts
Trump Versus Harvard
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Andrew Gleeson
· 16 min read
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
Thomas F. Powers
· 44 min read
Are Board Gender Quotas a Good Idea?
The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create.
Silvia G. Poratelli
· 8 min read
The UC’s Corner-Office Revolutionary
In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California.
Steven Brint
· 24 min read
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
· 11 min read
The Disaster Artist
Was Liz Truss Britain’s first affirmative-action prime minister?
Laurie Wastell
· 10 min read
The Peculiar Silence in the Students for Fair Admissions Decision
Are racial preferences in university admissions really dead?
Ethan Blevins
· 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
· 11 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 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 science agency, we know that bringing diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and
Robert J. Morris
· 10 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
· 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
· 6 min read
Affirmative Action Conundrums
People of goodwill tie themselves into the most absurd intellectual knots as they attempt to discuss affirmative action without acknowledging its inherent unpleasantness.
Oliver Traldi
· 11 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
· 8 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
· 11 min read