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…amendment on the ballot to reverse the state’s voter-approved ban on affirmative action in admissions to state colleges and universities. All nine state senators opposing the bill were Republicans who…

…John Greenya quotes Thomas: “You had to prove yourself every day because the presumption was that you were dumb and didn’t deserve to be there on merit.” Affirmative Action Destroys…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard two cases challenging affirmative action-based admissions policies at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University. The hearing was sometimes tense, and…

…articulate the objection better, while still appreciating the generous impulse that may underlie some of the support for affirmative action. Affirmative action is often applied in situations in which we…

…up leaving behind candidates of Asian heritage, just like it has done for affirmative action. Campuses Already Have ‘Too Many’ Asians According to a summary put together by FiveThirtyEight, Asian-Americans…

…own and without instructions from their rulers. One can ask: Would Tribe be defending the government’s actions had the censorship targeted an issue he cared deeply about, say, affirmative action?…

…and affirmative action, it is profoundly disrespectful to believe that’s all they care about. As Ta-Nehisi Coates once noted, few black people “wake up thinking about the HIV rate, or…

…to claim transraciality to get the benefits of affirmative action without actually fitting its requirements. Oh, perverse incentives, what would we do without you? Setting these depressing and amusing prospects…

Federal Judge Allison Burroughs ruled this week that Harvard University’s affirmative action approach to college admissions does not discriminate against Asian American applicants. The nonprofit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA)…

…race-based admissions programs commonly known as “affirmative action.” In Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. Harvard, the nine-justice panel voted 6-3, finding consideration of race in college admissions to be…

According to The New York Times, the Trump administration’s Justice Department’s civil rights division is going to ramp up investigating and sue universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to…

…A university policy manual, last updated in 2019, said the school was aiming to “promote affirmative action and take remedial measures as indicated to enhance diversity.” The Women and LGBT…

…census, and I would stop affirmative action, racial preferences, and all these… That is very important. The affirmative action part is completely important. Sorry, go ahead. Ryan Williams: Luma? Luma…

…universe, the law did not apply to us.” The Effects of Broader Immigration Plus Affirmative Action The second impact was the Immigration Act of 1965, which has dramatically changed the…

…across corporate America, there is a push to pack companies with affirmative action quotas. The left has grown bored with applying these racist policies only to college and graduate school…

…while most of the Next Generation Left support affirmative action, they decisively reject the idea that racial discrimination is the main reason why many blacks are unable to get ahead….

…presidential candidates are saying about higher education. We chart the top five Democratic candidates on 10 different issues, ranging from free college to affirmative action. We picked the issues that…

…Hillsdale’s rejection of race-based affirmative action. Whyte’s essay is deeply dishonest and riddled with tendentious claims, but for the sake of argument let us assume for a moment that what…

…Economist/YouGov poll after the verdict confirmed that most Americans (including black and Asian Americans) support banning affirmative action in college admissions. Many Americans celebrated the end of affirmative action as…

…push affirmative action in housing policy, directing HUD grant recipients to “affirmatively further the Act’s goals of promoting fair housing and equal opportunity.” But former elected officials Ken Blackwell and…

…two forms: fixing a signature to documents, and rhetoric. The power to reverse prior actions taken by a chief executive also requires affirmative action. That’s an important point, as we…

…most plainly: “My Republican colleagues and public figures have attempted to undermine your qualifications through their pejorative use of the term ‘affirmative action,’ and they have implied you were solely…

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hardly feigned interest in adjudicating the constitutionality of affirmative action in her dissent today. Remember all that talk about Jackson’s “progressive originalism?” It’s not…

…Defense Fund created the organization, referring to it on its website footer as one of its “LDF microsites,” essentially weaponizing youth to defend affirmative action. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund,…

The Supreme Court’s recent decision on affirmative action was a blow to the “equity-industrial complex” and Ibram X. Kendi, the best-selling author who is one of its key architects. The concurring…

…housing, and education. Affirmative Action and Welfare Backfire Take, for instance, the issue of affirmative action in education. Sowell exposes the harm these policies have done first and foremost to…

…created programs such as “affirmative action,” which values racial identity over an individual’s skill set. The woefully ignorant problem with affirmative action is that it places racial minorities in a…

…taxpayer-funded institution at all. In October 2020, Pitt joined 19 schools for a three-year program focused on affirmative action. The university announced the hiring of its director of faculty diversity…

…to block TJ’s new anti-Asian admission policy. The high court decided before it heard two cases challenging affirmative action-based admissions policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University….

…of affirmative action or transgenderism.   This question has an answer, but it is one that the testifying university presidents did not and perhaps could not provide. The answer is…

…2. They talk about the logistics of reparations. 3. They talk about affirmative action or welfare. Except that probably the most normal reaction to a piece headlined “The Case for…

…fact that gay, white men have reached such a level of acceptance in our society that makes them the target of historical revisionism. This is folly. It is affirmative action…

…these artificial lines even further. They have changed, and will continue to change. Racial Grievance Politics Are Already Changing Already the ground is shifting. Affirmative action, once intended to redress…

…order which sent Japanese Americans to internment camps during the World War II to today’s affirmative action in college admissions, Asian Americans have been hurt again and again by Democrat…

…logic. Affirmative Action and Taxes Universities likewise violate the right to equal treatment under the law through affirmative action. Applicants of certain minority statuses are given preferential treatment while non-minority…

…cases according to the Constitution and the law, without regard to any person. Take, for instance, Justice Sonya Sotomayor’s views on affirmative action. It is certainly not her job to…