July 11, 2011
NAS board member Gail Heriot tries to make sense out of the recent federal appeals court decision overturning Michigan's voter-approved ban on racial quotas, but finds the court's legal reas......
July 8, 2011
About a month ago, Chronicle Review ran an article purporting to give a new and more powerful argument why top colleges and universities should have “affirmative action” policies. In tod......
July 8, 2011
For Father’s Day, my daughter Kate sent me a t-shirt featuring David Pelham’s dust jacket of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange (Penguin, 1962). Director Stanley Kubr......
July 8, 2011
Student reporters weigh in on wimpy TV networks, the reasons for affirmative action's prolonged presence in college admissions, President Obama's unsatisfactory plans for Afghanistan and bei......
July 7, 2011
Is classical higher ed possible today?