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…punches were thrown by Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurrence. The court ruled that so-called “affirmative action” at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were in violation of the…

…to his principles. But Thomas’ criticisms of race-based affirmative action and other social welfare programs were an existential threat to the left, and especially the leftist black leadership’s efforts to…

…he faced assumptions that he’d only made it through Yale due to affirmative action. He’s well-known for his commitment to a color-blind Constitution and for vehemently opposing affirmative action. “What…

…towards Thomas. According to a review by Georgetown Law Professor Charles Abernathy of the book, “We Won’t Go Back: Making The Case For Affirmative Action” (1997) by then Georgetown Law…

…deadline. While the TAMU case plays out, the Supreme Court is mulling over another affirmative action case that could decide how all publicly funded universities approach race-based admissions. In Students…

…to bestow a college education on anyone and everyone became the dominant imperative of academic policy. Affirmative action and the dumbing down of college admissions tests like the SAT steadily…

…Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of California Irvine, wrote a letter in response to the senate in which he described the school’s affirmative action efforts as “biased against…

…by victimhood. A big part of the reason white Americans have been willing to go along with policies that are prejudicial on their face, such as affirmative action, is that…

…acts of nature in a second, but first a last point here: Privilege theorists pretend that we can create a more just society by creating complex systems of affirmative action…

…Acts or affirmative action programs get passed, the First Amendment will and should always protect a wide array of racist speech and conduct from legal penalty. That leaves society to…

…society,” Caldwell writes on page 278. “Professing to oppose racial distinctions in the South, while introducing them on a nationwide basis via affirmative action and other programs, would have been…

…well established that affirmative action programs always disproportionately harm Asian students, the numbers in New York are so stark, that there is no way to move the needle on diversity…

…Affirmative Action Pressure from Democrats in Congress will likely expand corporate affirmative action, which actually harms minority groups. It’s not progressive to give a person of color or a woman…

…The plan approaches affirmative action for internships based on governmentally protected classes to include “rural” and “minority” applicants. Under a Buttigieg presidential administration, the plan says, companies would get a…

…expected to be appealed and re-tried in the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to re-litigate affirmative action that the nation’s highest court has previously upheld. Polling has consistently found…

An ad in California is smearing opponents of a ballot proposition overturning a state ban on affirmative action as racist white supremacists. The ad, released at the end of September…

…a type of affirmative action — for white people. …Two federally chartered organizations — the Depression-era Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Johnson’s Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) — pumped millions of…

…politics as another grievance against the status quo. A half-century later, affirmative action and identity politics have created a huge diversity industry, in which millions in government, universities, and the…

…a looming backlash to dismantle affirmative action, halt integration, and fall back on old habits. In a landmark article in 1978, white legal scholar Alan Freeman laid out a framework…

…the narrative of white supremacy and structural racism. There are then only two weapons leftists see: Either to offset that success with affirmative action, which actively harms anyone intelligent, or…

…a contrary strategy: implementing race-based policies, which can range from affirmative action to reparations for compensating African Americans for the injustices of the past and for producing equitable outcomes in…

…At the time, students and faculty protested Kennedy’s inclusion at the university for his criticism of affirmative action and opposition to gay marriage, according to the Denver Post. Last fall,…

…in Yale’s footsteps.” Ho’s announcement shouldn’t come as a surprise, because he has always been outspoken against cancel culture and affirmative action. An immigrant from Taiwan, Ho has a long…

…forced, affirmative action-style diversity programs, such as trying to make software engineering jobs more collaborative and people-oriented. He Also Recognizes Averages Do Not Describe Everyone Damore went out of his…

…In addition, whites — and increasingly Asians — look at programs like affirmative action as inherently racist. The conservative definition is more traditional in the sense that if you open…

…are breaking away from that norm. From leading lawsuits against affirmative action in college admissions to running for political offices, I see a rising tide of political activism from Asian…

…other matters in the last two decades. On many cases, the justices issue rulings in unpredictable combinations. Yet for the hot-button social issues—gay marriage, gun rights, affirmative action—too often it…

…every left-wing city that declares immigration statutes inoperative, a right-wing counterpart might do the same with the Endangered Species Act, gun-registration laws, affirmative action, or gay marriage. The result would…

…demands. Righty college students learn to buy an affirmative action bake sale in a box. If you ask conservative college students about the training they get from their organizations —…

…to address historic racism, such as affirmative action. There isn’t much more the state can do to promote racial equality, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing we as Americans…

…and smart phones. In social media, images and social signaling are all that matters—though, as Plato tells us, these are mere shadows. Take, for example, the affirmative action case before…

…on the judiciary are no exception. Trump recently repeated liberal smears against Justice Scalia—painting him as a racist for questioning the efficacy of affirmative action. Trump recently repeated liberal smears…

…and white people, specifically for these immutable characteristics that have nothing inherently to do with business success. “Over-index” is essentially a financial or data version of affirmative action. I am…

…indication of an intellectual inconsistency that would have shown her as fallibly human. Specifically, we get no indication of Ginsburg’s embrace of race-based affirmative action practices that are utterly inconsistent…

…discussion with an admirable precis of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Kronman believes Bakke was wrongly decided. He is all-in for affirmative action. In fact, he argues…

…she and other nonwhite people need affirmative action programs outside education, housing, and government contracting. During the hearing, one California congressman asked Sandoval how government pushing affirmative action in media…