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The End of Affirmative Action in College
Does Fisher v. UT Austin spell the end of the admissions guideline?
Posted inEducation in America
When Affirmative Action Was White.
Over the weekend, Adam Serwer did a Bloggingheads with Amy Wax, author of Race, Wrongs, and Remedies and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. At the core of her book is a challenge to liberals who believe that government action is necessary to alleviate economic disparities between whites and African Americans. By her […]
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McArdle On Affirmative Action.
Megan McArdle on Affirmative Action: This is not to make fun of liberals or conservatives who think that more poor kids ought to go to Harvard; that would indeed be nice. But the fact remains that very few kids are going to go to Harvard, no matter how you play around with their admissions formula. […]
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The Enduring Relevance of Affirmative Action
When diversity became a positive, race-based preferences overcame the backlash.
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More On Lower-Class Whites And Affirmative Action.
Yesterday I wrote about Ross Douthat‘s column implicitly endorsing a calculus that reinforces the sort of racial resentment that benefits Republicans politically and often undermines liberal attempts to expand the social safety net (characterizing attempts to extend health insurance to an uninsured population that is almost half white is “reparations”). Dan Foster purports to respond, […]
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Tuesday Twitter Talk: Affirmative Action.
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More on Affirmative Action.
Matthew Yglesias, responding to Ross Douthat‘s column yesterday on affirmative action and “white Christians”: But in terms of “roots of white anxiety” I think it’d be a stretch to understand this anxiety as somehow primarily about the Jews and Asians who power Buchanan’s cute statistical point. Douthat writes about “racially tinged conspiracy theories […] Obama […]
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The Affirmative Action Trap.
Richard Kahlenberg on the University of Texas’ admissions policy: For a Democratic administration to support racial affirmative action — as the Obama administration is doing in a contentious lawsuit challenging the University of Texas at Austin’s racial-preference admissions policy — may seem natural and predictable. The administration filed an amicus brief with the Fifth Circuit […]
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The Affirmative Action Trap
Obama is weighing in on the University of Texas’s affirmative action policy, but it may be politically dangerous for him to do so.
