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An Academic Defense of Affirmative Action -- By: Roger Clegg

4. But even if you think there are some benefits to affirmative discrimination, one must weigh them against the undeniable costs of such discrimination, and of course there is no mention of them here:  It is personally unfair, passes over better ...

From ROGER CLEGG, Phi Beta Cons,  18 Nov 2009

'A New Manhattan Project' -- By: Roger Clegg

That’s what Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford propose in Insider Higher Ed today, in order “(1) to identify the causes and cumulative consequences of racial gaps in academic achievement and (2) to develop concrete steps that can be ...

From ROGER CLEGG, Phi Beta Cons,  12 Nov 2009

Another Vote for Class-Based Affirmative Action -- By: Roger Clegg

I noted a few weeks ago that the Harvard Crimson’s editorial board had endorsed a transition from race-based to class-based affirmative action. Now a piece in the Stanford Review makes the same plea.  There are obvious limits on the extent to which ...

From ROGER CLEGG, Phi Beta Cons,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

Racial Preferences in Pelosicare -- By: Roger Clegg

If you do a search for "minority," "minorities," "diversity," and "underrepresented" in the just-passed Pelosicare bill, you'll find all kinds of stuff, much of it disturbing, such as using the government's grantmaking authority to pressure medical ...

From ROGER CLEGG, The Corner,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Times,  Linda Chavez

'Diversity,' 'Tragedy,' and the Army -- By: Roger Clegg

As I’ve said many times in the affirmative-action context, there’s nothing wrong with diversity, but its advantages are greatly exaggerated, and they certainly do not justify the discrimination that routinely takes place in its name. Likewise, even if ...

From ROGER CLEGG, The Corner,  9 Nov 2009

The Soft Bigotry of Diversity -- By: Roger Clegg

Now, what interests me in that sentence is the phrase, “diverse but intellectually curious” and, in particular, the word “but.” We are always told by the diversiphiles that diversity and intellectual curiosity go together like ham and eggs, but here ...

From ROGER CLEGG, Phi Beta Cons,  5 Nov 2009

'The Power of Race' -- By: Roger Clegg

There are two forests here that should not be obscured by the trees:  First, there is a lot of racial discrimination in admissions taking place; and, second, the purported beneficiaries of such discrimination perform significantly worse academically ...

From ROGER CLEGG, Phi Beta Cons,  3 Nov 2009

'Housing as Busing' -- By: Roger Clegg

That’s the title of this fine article by the Manhattan Institute’s Howard Husock, who criticizes the Obama administration’s role in recent litigation aimed at racially imbalanced neighborhoods in Westchester County, N.Y. I had posted a similarly ...

From ROGER CLEGG, The Corner,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Manhattan Institute,  Barack Obama

'This Is Your Brain without Dad' -- By: Roger Clegg

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal this morning about new biological research on rodents and other animals, indicating that there are actual physiological problems in brain development for offspring raised by one parent in species where ...

From ROGER CLEGG, The Corner,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Wall Street Journal

The Harvard Crimson today . . . -- By: Roger Clegg

President Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia, for example, are far less in need of affirmative action than many white children living in poverty in the hills of Appalachia. The president himself has stated as much, declaring during the presidential ...

From ROGER CLEGG, Phi Beta Cons,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Barack Obama

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