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2 May 2007, 10:36 pm
Am I the only one who thought this editorial in the San Diego Union Tribune was rather odd? Evidently, Blackwater USA (referred to in the essay as "the controversial firm that supplies private security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan") wants to build a training facility out in the desert near the tiny town of Potrero (pop. 850). Anti-war activists have turned out in force to protest the war and, among other things, are trying to persuade local authorities… [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 9:16 pm
A few months ago I posted something about the New York TImes' insistence that Ivy League admissions decisions ought to be based solely on SAT scores and other strictly academic indicators. (No, not recently, the statement was made back in 1960. Today the folks at the NYT are wholehearted devotees of the "comprehensive review" system mentioned in the post.) In fairness, I should point out that the Wall Street Journal (or rather an affiliate of its publisher Dow Jones &… [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 7:27 pm
School discipline policy has been in the news a lot lately. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is being urged by many (including me) to withdraw the Obama Administration's controversial "Dear Colleague" letter on the subject. There's a lot wrong with that letter. Most important, it threatens to cut off funding to schools that suspend African-American students at higher rates than other students. It states: Schools also violate Federal law when they evenhandedly implement facially… [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 7:24 am
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5 May 2008, 7:26 pm
File this under "It's a Crazy Old World." [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 10:48 am
Earlier this week I testfied at the Senate Committee on the Judiciary's "Hearing on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil RIghts Act of 1957 and its Continuing Importance." Here's a slightly-altered snippet from my testimony: Many civil rights scholars like to characterize the Civil Rights Act of 1957 as a weak act. And in some respects they are correct. Compared to the ambitious bill that Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois earlier envisioned, the 1957 Act was puny… [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 4:52 pm
Here's the op-ed Todd & I published in the Washington Times yesterday: No one has ever accused Congress of being overly meticulous about the scientific evidence it takes in. But the 110th Congress has been on a binge diet of junk social science. It's no wonder it's been looking sick lately. Or should we say Sicko? An excellent example is last week's hearing before the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Preciously titled "Working Families… [read post]
7 May 2007, 8:30 pm
Stand up for your right to a better (and more expensive!) guacamole. I'm very pleased about the election of Nikolas Sarkozy. Maybe there's hope for France and its sclerotic, protectionist economy after all--and hope for French-U.S. relations. But evidently some believe that we need to meet France halfway. While France is moving in the direction of free markets, a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune suggests that several members of Congress would like the… [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 2:57 pm
As Gail Heriot has recounted on this blog, a psychology professor at Brown (and you can't get more [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 3:49 pm
I wonder how this is going to go over with your average Norwegian:"The test program will include the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the Directorate of Public Construction and Property, the Norwegian State Housing Bank and nine other state operations, Aftenposten reports. "The moderate quotas will give "positive special treatment" to immigrants when they have approximately the same qualifications as other applicants. "'Moderate quotas are a… [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 10:16 pm
The Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Affirmative Action in Law Schools is out. It does not of course endorse the work of Richard Sander, whose research indicates that racial preferences in law school admissions have actually reduced the number of African American lawyers today. But it takes the mismatch phenomenon seriously and calls for more research on the subject. (And it makes a few more recommendations that I will blog about later.) One of the criticisms of… [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 5:10 pm
Tom Bell has some interesting data on this issue. It appears that women and minority members who participate in the AALS "Meat Market" are more likely to get jobs than white males. It would be interesting to try to control for credentials. For example, how many job applicants of each race and gender with appellate court clerkships get jobs? Or perhaps even more interesting, how many without appellate clerkships get jobs? [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 5:42 pm
The biggest change since Grutter, though, has nothing to do with Court membership. It is the mounting empirical evidence that race preferences are doing more harm than good — even for their supposed beneficiaries. If this evidence is correct, we now have fewer African-American physicians, scientists, and engineers than we would have had using race-neutral admissions policies. We have fewer college professors and lawyers, too. Put more bluntly, affirmative action has backfired. via… [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 4:37 am
For good or ill, politicians are politicians.A good way to illustrate the importance of voting rights is to examine the behavior of actual politicians: Most of them will work hard to gain the goodwill of their constituents. Non-voters, on the other hand, usually get less attention—except, as in the case of children, when actual voters have very strong desire to benefit them. I'm sure none of that comes as a shock to you, but I think I have a nice historical illustration of it, so I… [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 10:01 am
I hope the hearing gets more serious. So far the hooting and hollering from the audience have been embarrassing for the Democrats.Today's Kavanaugh hearing appears to have descended into chaos. Amid the hooting and hollering is the accusation by Senator Durbin that Kavanaugh is the nominee of the Federalist Society. Untrue. But if it were true, I'd be happy about that (and Trump's detractors should be happy too). You'd be hard-pressed to come up with an organization that that… [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 8:15 pm
Am I the only one to be creeped out when listening to the radio these days? It's not the music or the news. Or even the talk shows. It's the advertisements that are giving me the creeps. For the past year, an astonishing number have been bellowing, "THE BANKS HAVE HAD THEIR BAIL-OUT! NOW IT'S TIME TO GET YOURS!" All sorts of businesses specialize in re-negotiating loans. Listeners are told that it isn't their fault that they can't pay. "Greedy bankers"… [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 11:23 am
We live in an era in which identity politics drives a lot of pork spending. No one should be surprised, therefore, to learn that the health-care bill is larded with federal grants and contracts available only to medical schools that can demonstrate their commitment to racial diversity. (See, e.g., sections 5303 and 5306.) Two assumptions, both of them quite fashionable these days, tend to underlie efforts to secure more affirmative action in medical schools : (1) that African Americans… [read post]
4 May 2007, 12:40 am
I received a half dozen e-mails Thursday from friends of mine who wanted me to see an article that appeared in UCLA's student newspaper, the Daily Bruin. The article, entitled "Admitted Students' Scores Show Disparity," reports that Blacks and Hispanics who are admitted to UCLA have considerably lower test scores than Whites or Asians, despite Proposition 209, which forbids race-based admissions policies at UC schools. The article suggests the… [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 11:56 pm
The ill-considered proposal for a Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act (known in the Senate and elsewhere as the "Akaka Bill") was brought to a vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. It passed--but the margin was 216-153. Mercifully, Bush's spokesman has said he will veto it, and the vote was insufficient to overcome such a veto. The vote was largely party line. All of the nays came from Republicans,… [read post]
29 Sep 2007, 7:00 pm
I find this scary. I know that many conservatives worry about the New York Times' liberal bias. And they should worry. But geez louise I don't expect the New York Times to turn over its front page news section to what is most likely its biggest advertiser--and to distort the facts to boot. That's either craven, rock stupid or both. Why would the New York Times refer to Terry Lundgren, Macy's embattled CEO, as "one of… [read post]
