April 16, 2021
Even if affirmative action remains as a label, its substance is sure to change. In fact, perhaps we should start to think of its next phase as Affirmative Action: Release 3.0.
February 25, 2021
Affirmative action, understood as taking concrete steps to right earlier wrongs, is to be honored, says Carl Cohen. But unequal treatment, in the name of affirmative action, cannot be defended. Howeve......
May 31, 2019
With the antidiscrimination suit brought against it by Students for Fair Admissions, Harvard University finds itself front and center in the affirmative action battle zone. It’s deserved. From t......
May 2, 2013
The first issue of NAS's quarterly journal's 2013 volume focuses on the Common Core, civics education, racial preferences, and important new books in higher education.
April 17, 2013
In a review essay, Cohen says Russell Nieli's Wounds That Will Not Heal "contends that the products of race preference, or affirmative action, are bad—very, very bad."
August 22, 2012
Roger Clegg and John S. Rosenberg offer ten reasons to oppose the "diversity" rationale for racial preferences. They argue that "diversity" is discrimination, and provide evidence that its costs are h......
August 13, 2009
Inside: Fighting feminist falsehoods, Merit-al bliss, UT Austin quashes Western civ curriculum, Clinton and the climate, AP exam-graders and 'Kool-Aid," and a new AQ issue.
September 26, 2008
This is an article from the "Future of Race Preferences" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 21, no. 3).