John S. Rosenberg, an Alabama native and Virginia resident, is a lapsed historian who spends most of his time off the tennis court writing his blog, www.discriminations.us
+3-7It is no accident, as we conspiracy theorists say, that campuses that are the steamiest hothouses of “diversity” — often the most elite, selective institutions — frequently experience the most dissatisfaction with their racial “climate.” When race is like a constantly picked scab, the sore never heals.
Hannah Rosenthal is an articulate,...
Last week on my blog, in How’s Bowdoin Doin?, I mentioned, briefly, the impressive National Association of Scholars report on what’s taught, or not, at Bowdoin College and a revealing reply by Bowdoin president Barry Mills that unwittingly confirmed one of that report’s serious charges. Now comes a very impressive response to the report by Bowdoin...
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning, unsurprisingly, that college presidents “have been in virtual lockstep — through legal briefs filed by scores of groups and associations, newspaper op-eds by individual presidents, and the like — in asserting that curtailing affirmative action would hurt the quality of the education students receive.”
Imagine its surprise, therefore,...
Most readers are aware that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has a new book and has been heavily promoting it. See my The Wise Latina Speaks, And A Liberal Drools (cross-posted here) and More “Wise Latina” Drivel for recent discussion of it.
Now comes Charles Johnson with an excellent, long expose of The Surprising Details About Sonia Sotomayor’s College Past That...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has a new book about to be published, and Andrew Cohen has an embarrassingly gushing celebration of it, and her, in The Atlantic, regarding it as a profound “prebuttal to what Chief Justice John Roberts...
I’ve argued too many times to cite that there is no such thing as “reverse discrimination,” a term some apply to the race-based burdens affirmative action places on many Asians, some whites, and others in un-favored groups. A policy, program, behavior, whatever either discriminates on the basis of race, or...
A few days ago Princeton President Shirley Tilghman put on another of what seem to be an endless series of parodies of “diversity” on college campuses these days.
She didn’t intend it to be a parody, of course, and is no doubt unaware that it was one, but few readers...
Sometimes it’s impossible to escape the suspicion that Onion writers have infiltrated the Obama administration and gleefully set about reducing its anti-discrimination policies to parody, or farce.
Reading Peter Schmidt’s restrained but nevertheless devastating report in the Chronicle...
About a decade ago, a bit uncharitably but not inaccurately, I described George Washington University law professor and New Republic legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen as “A Brown-Defying, Meritocratic, Quota-Mongering Preference Pusher.”
He’s still pushing preferences, as in a new New Republic piece offering a depressing if unoriginal argument why the Supreme Court should not prohibit preferences...
“Did you know,” asks Mary Ann Mason, professor and co-director of the Berkeley Law Center on Health, Economic & Family Security and former dean of the graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley in a long article today in the Chronicle of Higher Education, ”that Title IX specifically includes important protections for pregnant...
The Brown Daily Herald reported yesterday the surprising results of a poll that found “more than 58 percent of students oppose the University’s consideration of race in student admissions decisions, while over 34 percent of students said they supported the policy.”
One hopeful way for liberals to look at this dramatic finding is as proof...
Often missed by reviewers who are astounded by the dramatic evidence Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. present of the damage “mismatch” does to underprepared but preferentially admitted minorities is their equally if not more damning demonstration that university leaders routinely ignore this growing body of scholarship.
The purpose of the brief Sander and...
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning that, according to a new study, there are dramatic disparities in the salaries of community college presidents associated with race, sex, and gender.
Bucking trends in the pay of top officials in most other professions, women, on average, earned higher base salaries than did men at the...
At National Review Online this morning [Nov. 6] Jay Nordlinger reports, citing the Daily Princetonian,
that 157 members of Princeton University’s faculty or staff have donated to the two presidential candidates. One hundred fifty-five donated...
