Tag: Thurgood Marshall
The End of Affirmative Action. For Real This Time.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule next week on a pair of decisions about affirmative action in higher education. Both were brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a conservative group dedicated to eliminating “race and ethnicity from college admissions.” One case is against Harvard, likely because anything involving Harvard guarantees some attention. The other is against the University of North Carolina, one of the most prestigious public university systems that hasn’t banned affirmative action yet. Both cases involve Asian
The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book
History works for Ron DeSantis as an argument. It would be a mistake, though, to think he doesn’t care about it deeply or hasn’t devoted serious deliberation to his own understanding of the American past. In fact, his biography indicates a great respect for the discipline. DeSantis reportedly received special praise for his performance in an Advanced Placement U.S. history course at Florida’s Dunedin High School before he graduated in 1997. He majored in history at Yale during some
Die Schmutzkampagne gegen Bidens noch nicht benannten Kandidaten
Joe Biden hat noch keinen Kandidaten für den Sitz des scheidenden Richters am Obersten Gerichtshof, Stephen Breyer, ausgewählt, aber Konservative wissen bereits, dass der Kandidat nicht qualifiziert ist. Immerhin hat Biden geschworen, eine schwarze Frau zu nominieren.
Wie New York Jonathan Chait vom Magazin schreibt, konservative Medien beklagen, dass Biden „Hautfarbe über Qualifikationen“ gestellt hat, beschuldigen Biden, versucht zu haben, „Stammeskriege“ zu schüren und sich an „Diskriminierung“ zu beteiligen, und bestehen darauf,