A large cross-section of corporate America filed briefs with the Supreme Court on Aug. 1 urging the court to allow colleges to continue using race as a factor in student admissions. The court is poised to hear challenges to these racially discriminatory policies in its new term that begins in October. The challengers say so-called…
Big Tech, Pharma, Banks Urge SCOTUS to Uphold Race-Based Discrimination in College Admissions
August 1, 2022
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Big Tech, Pharma, Finance Urge SCOTUS to Uphold Race-Based Discrimination in College Admissions
August 1, 2022
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A large cross-section of corporate America filed briefs with the Supreme Court on Aug. 1 urging the court to allow colleges to continue using race as a factor in student admissions. The court is poised to hear challenges to these racially discriminatory policies in its new term that begins in October. The challengers say so-called…
Law Professor Suspended for Criticizing Biden’s ‘Affirmative Action’ SCOTUS Pick Will Get Job Back
June 3, 2022
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Georgetown University has reinstated the director of its constitutional law program, who had been suspended for objecting to President Joe Biden’s explicit race- and gender-driven plan to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. Ilya Shapiro, who would have started working as executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution on Feb. 1, became a target…
The American People Have Spoken: It’s Time to End Affirmative Action
Commentary Contrary to popular belief, most Americans are not in favor of affirmative action. In fact, an increasing number of Americans want it removed from the college admission process. Will U.S. Supreme Court officials act? In a recent piece for The Atlantic, Adam Harris warned readers that, once the court overturns Roe v. Wade, it…
EpochTV Review: Harvard’s Culture Change for the Worse
May 2, 2022
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This episode of Counterculture explores how the academic institution of Harvard is changing and why. Host Danielle D’Souza Gill begins by attributing the change to “mass formation psychosis,” a term used to explain how so many people could so eagerly listen to and follow someone like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. History is full of other examples…
It’s Time to End Affirmative Action
Commentary If I have read or heard it once, I have read or heard it a few thousand times: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Other than “freedom,” no single word describes more accurately than the word “equality” what it means to be an American. For decades, our…
Supreme Court Should Recognize ‘Diversity’ Programs Are About Leftist Politics, Not Education
Commentary This year, the Supreme Court will decide whether universities may continue to discriminate by race and ethnicity (pdf). The court’s consolidated proceeding includes cases against Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina (UNC), a state institution. The Harvard case arises under federal civil rights law and the UNC case under…
Time to End Affirmative Action
Commentary Americans are fed up with racial preferences. More than three-quarters of Americans believe President Joe Biden should consider “all possible nominees” to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, rather than only black women, according to a new poll. Likewise, nearly three-quarters of Americans, including a majority of Hispanic and black people, oppose affirmative…
Racial Discrimination at Harvard
Commentary The Supreme Court’s decision to hear challenges to affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) is welcome news for those of us who have fought for a quarter of a century to end race-based preferences in college admissions. At issue isn’t merely the admissions practices of two prestigious universities,…
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Will SCOTUS Rule Affirmative Action a Mistake?; Mask Facts Exposed in New Book
The Supreme Court picked up a hot topic this week: Affirmative action in college admissions. Is it legal to prefer some races over others? We’re joined by Ward Connerly, who’s focused on this question for decades. He is the founding president of American Civil Rights Institute and a former University of California Regent, during which…