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- 1From:The New York Times MagazineTo hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . In the spring of 1977, Charles Ogletree, a law student at Harvard, asked for a meeting with a professor,...
- 2From:The New York Review of BooksSherrilyn Ifill It is often said among appellate litigators that oral arguments rarely affect the outcome of a case. The written arguments—the briefs—are the coin of the realm. Perhaps for that reason, most analysts of...
- 3From:New Criterion (Vol. 41, Issue 5)If chattel slavery hadn't existed in the United States, the Left would have had to invent it. What we mean is that the idea of slavery has become so dear to the disciples of identity politics that without its moral...
- 4From:Mother Jones (Vol. 48, Issue 1)THE SUPREME COURT IS SET TO KILL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. JUST NOT FOR RICH WHITE KIDS. When he was 8 years old, Michael Wang decided he wanted to go to Harvard. "I don't know if it's the Asian stereotype," he told me, "but...
- 5From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 59, Issue 5)U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, an avowed serious Catholic, famously explained his view that abortion-rights advocacy has its roots in racial eugenics in his 2019 concurring opinion in Box v. Planned...
- 6From:Commentary (Vol. 154, Issue 5)IN 1978, THE SUPREME COURT ruled that colleges may use race as a factor in student admissions, so long as they avoid numerical racial quotas. In 2003, and again in 2016, the Court upheld the constitutionality of...
- 7From:ProtoView9781558859425 Losing the Precious Few: How America Fails to Educate Its Minorities in Science and Engineering Richard A. Tapia Arte Público Press 2022 323 pages $24.95 LC3731 The author, a professor who...
- 8From:The EconomistThe children of alumni and athletes benefit from affirmative action too I N A TYPICAL year Harvard, a $53bn endowment with a university attached, receives nearly four times as many candidates with perfect grade-point...
- 9From:The EconomistTake that, Clarence Thomas The Supreme Court seems ready to toss out affirmative action "F IVE VOTES", Justice William Brennan perennially told his law clerks, "can do anything around here." When the Supreme Court...
- 10From:Washington Monthly (Vol. 54, Issue 11-12)A CLOSER LOOK AT THE HARVARD ADMISSIONS CASE NOW BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT SHOWS THAT ITS WHITES WHO BENEFIT MOST FROM DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ASIANS. On October 31, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases alleging...
- 11From:Addis FortuneWomen constitute half of society. They are conversation points in daily discussions and research concepts. Their contributions to and responsibilities for society remain unrecognised, for they are seen in a family...
- 12From:The EconomistThe other legislature Clashes over gay rights, affirmative action and elections promise a noisy term T HREE MONTHS after scrapping abortion rights, fortifying the right to bear arms and bulldozing the church-state...
- 13From:New Criterion (Vol. 41, Issue 2)We live, allegedly, in a democracy of sorts. While it is not a plebiscitary democracy, in which every issue is put directly to the people, but rather a representative democracy, it is nonetheless supposed to be a system...
- 14From:Education Week (Vol. 42, Issue 7)Affirmative action in school admissions leads the list of cases of interest to educators as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to open its 2022-23 term, just months after wrapping up a term that saw several momentous...
- 15From:The Objective Standard (Vol. 17, Issue 3)Five years ago, Washington state businessman Ralph Taylor demanded that the government declare him black. Taylor was of mixed race--a DNA test showed he had only 4 percent African ancestry--but he wanted his business to...
- 16From:National Review (Vol. 74, Issue 13)* In Pierce County, Wash., a police officer saw a man sitting in a car in a high-crime area and, suspecting theft, asked for his name and date of birth. The officer then went back to his car to check the information,...
- 17From:Public Management (Vol. 104, Issue 7)As the inaugural diversity, inclusion, and equal employment officer for the city of Santa Rosa, California, I have been honored to be part of a local government system trying to figure it all out. The opportunity to...
- 18From:American Record Guide (Vol. 85, Issue 4)All the affirmative action in our field is heavily financed. Here's one current example. Opera America offers grants for "women [sic] stage directors and conductors. The program incentivizes [sic] companies to hire...
- 19From:Claremont Review of Books (Vol. 22, Issue 1)IN 1996 CALIFORNIA BECAME THE FIRST state to ban preferential admissions, hiring, and contracting policies intended to bolster the prospects of groups that are underrepresented or the victims of discrimination, Since the...
- 20From:National Review (Vol. 73, Issue 23)The University of California system has removed standardized tests from its admissions process, citing racial and socioeconomic inequities. The decision was made notwithstanding a report last year by the UC Standardized...