Last month, I commented briefly on Fisher v. University of Texas, the long-running affirmative action in college admissions case, on which the Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in favor of the University, supporting its so-called “holistic” criteria review of applicants that might use race as a factor under strict scrutiny in the interest of diversity in […]

Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute has written extensively in well-researched articles about the Black Lives Matter phenomenon and the so-called “Ferguson effect”– the notion that the perfectly natural police reaction to the Ferguson, Missouri and Chicago shootings and the community and media backlash against the police was a leading cause of the significant crime […]

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into The University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well. One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in […]

In a recent review of the new book by former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz entitled The Great Divide, reviewer Brian Wesbury writes this: ” A running theme of the book is that the American dream is dead because policy makers have failed to implement truly liberal policies.  But for the past 50 years, liberals […]

Count me as disappointed in the overall message and theme of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of The March on Washington, when it could and should have been an event worthy of the commemoration of a significant turning point event in American history. First, the celebration had all the earmarks of a partisan Democrat […]

  I didn’t want to write about this case because I felt it was an all too typically contrived media event, and to a large extent it was just that.  But in another sense it grew into something else, and the something else, based on media bias in the coverage and professional race hustling in […]

Recently the news cycle was captivated by the report from the U. S. Census Bureau that, for the first time in U. S. history, whites of European ancestry account for less than half of new-born children, supposedly marking a tipping point for the economy, the workforce, and politics.  Commentators marked it as a major turning […]

I did not intend to write about this tragic episode until I read Shelby Steele’s excellent essay on it in the Wall Street Journal.  As usual on race-driven issues, he nails it, with perceptive insight into the degeneracy of the current conversation on race.  The facts will sort themselves out, with no help from the […]

It appears that my alma mater will be on the leading edge of what could be a watershed decision by the Supreme Court on affirmative action in the use of race-based criteria in college admissions.  They have been there before–in breakthrough segregation cases like Sweatt vs. Painter and the previous affirmative action case of Hopwood […]

As I have previously made pretty clear, Ward Connerly of the American Civil Rights Institute is one of my heroes. His latest victory, in Michigan last November, was the landslide voter approval of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative ending state-sponsored racial preferences (incidentally, no thanks to the White House, from where Attorney General Alberto Gonzales […]