Reading McWhorter’s piece today at The New York Times reminds me of the first time I read Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory twenty years ago. The only difference is that McWhorter took the Ivy League job and Rodriguez turned it […]
affirmative action
Elite college prof: “affirmative action — though necessary — has inadvertently helped create a warped and race-obsessed American university culture”
Here is a taste of Tyler Austin Harper’s New York Times piece: “I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admission.” Harper is a professor of environmental studies at Bates College. When I was […]
David Brooks makes an argument for class-based college admissions
Here is The New York Times columnist in the wake of the Supreme Court ending affirmative action today: We’ve been debating affirmative action since I was in diapers, and increasingly the Supreme Court has gotten into this issue, and now […]