Category Archives: Academia

Why “Mismatch” is Relevant in Fisher v. Texas

Richard Sander writes: Affirmative action is before the Supreme Court again this week, as it rehears arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas. (I’ve discussed the legal issues in Fisher here.) But perhaps the most important question about racial preferences … Continue reading

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Understanding Stupid Political Activism

Robert Weisberg writes: Any sensible person viewing today’s identity-based, tribe-like political activism (think recent incidents at the University of Missouri and Yale among countless others) would conclude that these antics are stupid, foolish, counter-productive, and otherwise ill-conceived or, as the … Continue reading

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Why Are These New College Protesters So Thick?

Steve Sailer writes: But they also aren’t really good students, so the ideas articulated by protesters aren’t very intellectually impressive. In contrast, back in the 1960s, campus radicals were heavily Jewish. So the reigning theories, while puerile, were at least … Continue reading

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Politically Correct Holy Rollers: The New Campus Revival

Helen Andrews writes: Leftism has become a religion, and what we are seeing now is a revival. The revivalists testify from behind megaphones instead of pulpits and in “safe spaces” instead of country churches, but they stand squarely within the … Continue reading

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Declining Standards in Racial Hate Hoaxes

Comments to Steve Sailer: * You have a high quality school like HLS admit students on the basis of affirmative action, and you somehow expect and demand high quality hoaxes from those students. When Alabama or LSU lowers their academic … Continue reading

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