After the crowd’s applause for his opponent died down, Dinesh D’Souza said he felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. Facing popular affirmative action advocate Tim Wise in a heated debate on the ...

As some readers might know, I have a weekly column titled “The Death of Education” in which I recently published an article defending the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw affirmative action in ...

Introduction : To look like America / Nicolaus Mills -- A negative vote on affirmative action / Shelby Steele -- Persuasion and distrust : the affirmative action debate / Randall Kennedy -- Feminism ...

Following the Supreme Court’s strike down of affirmative action earlier this year, questions have been raised over the continuation of legacy admissions — who currently make up around 15 percent of ...

Clegg's organization originally started the study in support of a ballot proposition being pushed by millionaire California entrepreneur Ward Connerly to outlaw affirmative-action programs not only in ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The issue of affirmative action is returning to campus this semester with a five-part lecture ...

The California Assembly on Wednesday decided to let voters choose whether to overturn the state’s 24-year-old ban of affirmative action programs — capping an emotional hours-long debate in the ...

Iowa House passes bills on habitual offenders, affirmative action and more ...

Between bombshell op-eds and a federal court case on college admissions, race-based affirmative action is back in the pundits' spotlight. Earlier this week, Peter Beinart joined Ross Douthat in ...

Prominent universities across America are now adopting a new admissions process that is remarkably similar to the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System. After the Supreme Court ruled that ...

Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. I hear the outrage: What! These conservatives spend years in combat against affirmative action, accusing it of ills ...

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