Category: equity

Equity and the Race to the Bottom

Commentary Over the last few years, the rallying cry of “woke” activists has become “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (often abbreviated to DEI). There is little reason to object to such principles on the surface. After all, America was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Unfortunately, the meaning of words can change over time….


New! Advanced Public Education! Compare With Brand ‘Equity’!

Nico’s prospects were already looking dicey in the second grade. Raised by his Latina grandmother in a Spanish-speaking home, he was a witty boy whose clowning got him branded as a troublemaker in an Arizona public school outside Phoenix. But Nico was saved from this downward spiral by an unlikely intervention—a test given to all…


Housing Agency Rules Will Force Homeowners With Good Credit to Subsidize High-Risk Borrowers

The Biden administration will soon punish Americans with high credit ratings to pay more for their mortgages to subsidize loans for homebuyers with lower scores. Starting May 1, Americans purchasing a new home or are refinancing their existing mortgages will have to pay higher mortgage rates and monthly fees if they have a higher credit score, The…


The House GOP Effort to Defund—Not Police, but Wokeness

News Analysis Through executive orders and budget requests, the Biden administration has sought to embed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” principles across the entirety of the federal government—and in turn to touch the lives of every American. Now members of the Republican House majority, who see this whole-of-government effort as a woke assault on America and its core values, are…


California’s Education Priorities Are Focused on Equity Quotas

Commentary A March 26 front page article in the Orange County Register bemoaned the fact that too few black and Latino males become teachers in the California public schools in proportion to Caucasian men and women. It didn’t mention Asian male teachers, but painted minority teachers as “people of color” as if Caucasians don’t come…


The Big DEI Gulf on Campus: It’s Much More Than He Said/Ze Said

The fight over academic freedom on campus increasingly comes down to a fight over three letters—DEI—which goes a long way to explaining the fissures now tearing higher education apart. For progressives committed to social justice advocacy, academic freedom must shield the prevailing academic consensus on race and gender from outside political pressure. Nowhere is that…


Is the Counter-University Movement Any Match for the DEI Juggernaut?

A group of intellectual mavericks made splashy headlines in 2021 when they announced plans to launch a new university in Texas called the University of Austin. Backed by a gallery of celebrity intellectuals—its trustees and directors include former Harvard president Larry Summers, Brown University economist Glenn Loury, former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, civil rights leader and…


Biden’s EPA Is Lowering the ‘Environmental Justice’ Boom on Louisiana’s Disputed ‘Cancer Alley’

LAPLACE, La.—Along Interstate 10 where the Mississippi River threads from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, ever-expanding petrochemical and other industrial projects have long been fought by environmental activists, who have saddled the stretch with the disputed moniker “Cancer Alley.” Now the Biden administration is opening a new front in the war—against a proposed expansion of…


Cal State Fullerton Receives $1.4 Million to Broaden Career Pathways for OC Students

California State University—Fullerton is dedicating $1.4 million in education grants to recent high school grads, community college, and university students to help them pursue a career in a variety of fields, according to a recent statement from the school. The program is part of the school’s effort to give more college students the opportunity to pursue…


Your Daughter for a Rat?

Commentary There are various degrees of acceptable insanity, but in general you would not want a person who thought a toad had the same intrinsic value as your mother to manage her Alzheimer’s disease. You would not want a person who equated the value of your daughter with that of a rat to decide whether…