Commentary The U.S. Census Bureau has been releasing interesting data from the 2020 count. Here are some numbers of interest to Californians. Loss of Congressional Seat The reason California is losing a seat in the U.S. Congress is because its population grew 6.1 percent from 2010 to 2020. However, the U.S. population grew by 10.1…
U.S. Census Data Reveal Changes in California Reapportionment and Diversity
The Merits of Meritocracy
Commentary In the current cultural climate, meritocracy is dismissed as antiquated and unjust—a failed doctrine of the patriarchy. But this foundational virtue of democracy shouldn’t be discarded so casually. It is an equalizing approach based on the principle that individuals can advance and thrive on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement rather than on…
Kenny Xu on ‘An Inconvenient Minority’ and How the Push for Equity Is Dumbing Down America
“They claim to be attacking white supremacy, but really, they’re attacking meritocracy,” says Kenny Xu, author of “An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy.” Asian Americans are penalized for working hard and held to much higher standards than their non-Asian peers in the admission processes for America’s elite…
A Defeat in the Courts for Biden’s Racist ‘Equity’ Policies
If you were an Armenian Christian who fled your home to Glendale, California in 1915 to escape a genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks that killed roughly one million of your countrymen and women, how would you feel about paying reparations for black slavery that ended more than fifty years before you arrived?…
The Temptation of Equity
Commentary Biden’s push for equity in government hits legal and political roadblocks. That was the headline of a front-page story in the New York Times recently. Note carefully the wording. We have two parts to the statement, a good one and a bad one. The good one is “push for equity in government.” Who could argue with…
Ideology, Prejudice, Equity, and Laughter
Commentary To a hammer, everything looks like a nail; to a modern ideologist, every difference looks like the result of prejudice. This ideology reminds me of the tiny ants that have got into my kitchen in my house in the French countryside. They get everywhere, including (this morning) into my computer. The ideology is like…
The Perils of Declaring Racism a ‘Public Health Emergency’
Commentary With COVID-19 apparently on the wane, the technocrats who eagerly seized upon the pandemic to justify hobbling American liberty now advocate declaring racism a “public health emergency.” Such a policy would enable the governing class and our corporate overseers to deploy the same power tools in the fight against racism recently utilized to combat…
Dumbing Down Public-School Math in the Name of Social Justice
Commentary In the interest of “math equity”—doing something about racial disparities in accelerated mathematics classes for gifted middle-school and high-school students—the state of California is considering simply doing away with public schools’ accelerated math track altogether. The current system, which allows youngsters with demonstrated math proficiency to start algebra in the 8th grade and take…
Washington Governor Signs Bill Mandating Critical Race Training in Public Schools
May 9, 2021
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a bill that incorporates the doctrine of “equity, cultural competency, and dismantling institutional racism” into the training for all K-12 educators across the state. Under Senate Bill 5044 (pdf), which passed the state legislature in April, school districts in Washington must use one of the three professional…
Let’s Hire China to Run Our Schools and Universities
Commentary The internationalization of labor has been a longstanding policy of government and business. The main reason is the low cost of labor in developing countries such as China, compared to the cost of labor in modern and postmodern countries. With lower labor costs, companies gain more profit, and citizens gain greater access to consumer…
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