Phoney arguments for quotas.Focuses on the issue of affirmative action. Author's belief that there are no arguments in favor of affirmative action but only ploys, evasions and emotional rhetoric; `Angry white men' as the reason for efforts to repeal group preferences and quotas.Sowell...
Supreme Court: In Affirmative Action Arguments, Conservative Bloc Seems UnitedThe justices of the US Supreme Court split sharply on Wednesday over whether to approve the use of racial preferences for admission to the University of Texas at Austin.Richey, Warren...
Interview: Lani Guinier and Roger Clegg discuss the affirmative action arguments now being heard by the US Supreme Court regarding admissions policies at colleges and universitiesTAVIS SMILEY
Answer to: Briefly state the economic and noneconomic arguments in favor of land reform in Latin America and the Caribbean. By signing up, you'll...
aThus conservative advocates of the East Harlem school, who generally oppose affirmative action, find themselves defending one putative form of it. Conservatives who are generally unsympathetic to arguments about self-esteem, dismissing them as an expression of liberal "victimism," find themselves extoll...
Democracy Is in Crisis? The stakes are too high for higher ed to stay out of the fray, Austin Sarat writes. Opinion Views Asian Americans Got Played on Affirmative Action Let’s not get played again, OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong write. Opinion Views An Opportunity to Reframe the DEI...
For the sake of convenience in exposition I shall use as an example the preparations for an argument in favor of introducing the commission form of government into an imaginary city, Wytown; and each of the directions for the use of the notebook I shall illustrate by entries appropriate to ...
Thomas:Something that everybody who supports democracy would be in favor of. End of story, okay! Closing it out, T3BE- Oh no, there’s more. Sorry. Andrew:Yeah. Something the Supreme Court approved of in April. Now we fast forward to October and we’ve got the general election and,...
I present an account of the interplay between quantifiers and the partitive–accusative case alternation in Finnish object marking, with special reference to the aspectual and quantificational semantics of the clause. The case alternation expresses two oppositions (in affirmative clauses): (a) bounded...
and long-run declines in average wages and the likelihood of earning high wages measured by California standards. The University of California has never recovered the same level of diversity that it had before the loss of affirmative action nearly 20 years ago, a level that,...