affirmative action
description: policies to improve opportunities for discriminated minority groups
415 results
The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
by Adrian Wooldridge · 7 Apr 2026 · 342pp · 129,097 words
subtle defences against competition. The conversion of liberals into the establishment has driven a wedge between liberalism and ordinary people. University administrators embrace policies of affirmative action that are wildly unpopular with regular people (including most Black people). Neoliberals specialize in walling off economic decision-making from popular oversight. The European Union
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in 1965 on the grounds that higher education should be a universal right. German and French universities moved in the same direction. American universities introduced affirmative action and grade inflation. Avant-garde artists and critics attacked the two foundations of Arnold’s view of the world: that art is about elevating us
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technocrat leaders (who had never done anything other than politics) and its penchant for to talking. The prime example at home was Barack Obama, an affirmative-action president, in his view, who had been given breaks unrelated to his achievement, including a Nobel Peace Prize before he even got his feet under
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identity revolution has suffered from a succession of serious setbacks in recent years, culminating in Trump’s re-election: the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, the self-immolation of companies such as Walt Disney and Anheuser-Busch in the culture wars, the revelation that leaders of the Black Lives Matter
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by imposters: Trump began his political career by suggesting that Barack Obama is a Kenyan Muslim who owed his admission to Ivy League universities to affirmative action. There is the same widespread exasperation cum fury at ‘political correctness gone mad’. The rise of conservative identity politics has coincided with a flurry of
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peculiar happened: left-wing liberals fell out of love with meritocracy. This started small: liberals of both political parties supported affirmative action to give a fair chance to African Americans. But affirmative action metastasized into a bureaucratic regime of quotas with different passing grades for different ethnic groups. The continued travails of Black America
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despite affirmative action led many progressives to argue that supposedly objective standards are saturated in racism. Daniel Markovits, of Yale Law School, and Michael Sandel, of Harvard, both
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meritocratic idea and restored a great American ideal. In June 2023, in Students for Fair Admissions versus Harvard, the Supreme Court concluded that race-conscious affirmative action violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The second Trump administration presented itself as a champion of race-blind meritocracy. Donald Trump used
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a flurry of executive orders that not only abolished DEI in the federal government but also went back to Lyndon Johnson’s first introduction of affirmative action. But is meritocracy safe with Trump? Conservatives are right that DEI is a bad way of addressing inequality of opportunity. DEI offends the foundational liberal
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-fund manager from Long Island more ‘diverse’ than the daughter of a white coal miner from Appalachia? More discreditably, it imposes all the costs of affirmative action on one unwitting minority group while deliberately excluding the rich and powerful from the costs. Like the Jews before them, Asian Americans are held to
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fair.’3 Imperfect solutions to the problem of lack of equality of opportunity, they may have been, but affirmative action and DEI were at least real attempts. There is a danger that simply abolishing affirmative action will create a much whiter elite while leaving many black and brown Americans languishing at the bottom of
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meritocracy not a tyranny. Knocking down imperfect ladders without replacing them with better ones could worsen the problem of inequality beyond endurance. Plutocracy modified by affirmative action, which is what the DEI regime meant in most universities, is hardly an attractive thing. But plutocracy modified by nothing is uglier. We have emphasized
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will also provide a model for the rest of the world. Against legacies The obvious way to start this new meritocratic revolution is to abolish affirmative action for the rich. The Court’s ruling unfortunately leaves this system in place, despite a lot of tut-tutting, because it is based on class
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proportion of legacy students who are white as well as rich. Opinion polls suggest that larger majorities of Americans are against legacy admissions than against affirmative action.7 Its death cannot come too soon. A second method is to put more emphasis on objective tests rather than subjective assessments of applicants: that
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into the elite. In the past two decades, America’s elite universities have become more sensitive to the charge that they are plutocracies modified by affirmative action. In 2004 Harvard made a landmark decision to introduce ‘zero cost’ education for students whose parents earn $40,000 and below.8 This started a
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Opportunity 1 ‘President John F. Kennedy: Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963 – Transcript’, National Endowment for the Arts 2 Vianney Gómez, ‘As Courts Weigh Affirmative Action, Grades and Test Scores Seen as Top Factors in College Admissions’, Pew Research Center, 26 April 2022 3 Lyndon B. Johnson, ‘Commencement Address at Howard
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, 600 US 181 (2023), Justice Thomas concurring 6 http://www.opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Paper.pdf 7 Gómez, ‘As Courts Weigh Affirmative Action’ 8 Daniel J. Hemel, ‘Summers Unveils Financial Aid Initiative’, Harvard Crimson, 28 February 2004 9 Caroline M. Hoxby and Christopher Avery, ‘The Missing “One-Offs
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106, 154, 155 Action Francaise 96 Acton, Lord 47, 50, 52, 115, 205 Adams, Charles Francis 79 Adams, John 33, 50, 316 Adenauer, Konrad 101 affirmative action xx, 144, 189, 193, 265–70, 271 Afghanistan 236, 243, 309 African Americans 174, 185, 193, 247, 265, 266 Agnew, Spiro 156 Ahamed, Liaquat: Lords
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, William Jennings 154 Buchanan, Pat 158 Buckingham, James Silk 128 Burckhardt, Jacob 31, 50, 52 Bureau of Corporations 79 bureaucracy 138, 188, 265, 273, 276 affirmative action and 265 bureausclerosis/bureaucratic stasis 296, 305 EU and 107, 148, 231, 232, 282, 291, 295, 299–301, 305 liberal weakness and 230, 231, 232
The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
by Jacob Siegel · 24 Mar 2026 · 348pp · 103,246 words
signified was not the standard succession of political leaders but a change of regime. * * * In elite institutions and across the federal government, progressive policies like affirmative action were being rapidly overturned. After decades of dominance, progressivism was in retreat, and the monopoly of the former ruling party lay visibly broken. Politically, the
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--From Azure to Zinc Pink
by Kory Stamper · 30 Mar 2026 · 354pp · 96,619 words
the Federal Government.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 95 (1921): 1–113. Rossiter, Margaret W. Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940–1972. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ———. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Russell, Lindsay Rose. Women
The Passenger - India
by AA.VV. · 19 Feb 2020 · 213pp · 59,862 words
discriminazione basato sulla discendenza – scopre che la sua identità è stata rubata da un uomo «di casta alta» che cerca di approfittare dei vantaggi della affirmative action, un insieme di politiche create per compensare le discriminazioni subite dai dalit. Nel terzo racconto, che ha un fondo di realismo magico, una famiglia cerca
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by Steven Pinker · 14 Oct 2021 · 533pp · 125,495 words
to be true. The same thing happens when the conclusion is politically congenial: If college admissions are fair, then affirmative action laws are no longer necessary. College admissions are not fair. Therefore, affirmative action laws are necessary. If less severe punishments deter people from committing crime, then capital punishment should not be used. Less
The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite
by Michael Lind · 20 Feb 2020
. The second are policies that include skills training or retraining for unsuccessful native white men. Class-neutral, race-based policies in the United States include affirmative action in hiring, government set-asides for specified groups in contracting, and gerrymandering of congressional districts to create majority-minority districts likely to elect a member
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah · 27 Aug 2018 · 285pp · 83,682 words
seldom undermines the significance for them of racial identities and affiliations. Around the world, people have sought and won affirmative action for their ethnoracial groups. In the United States, in part because of affirmative action, public opinion polls consistently show wide divergences on many questions along racial lines.33 On American campuses where the
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by Bryan Caplan · 16 Jan 2018 · 636pp · 140,406 words
: Estimating a Model with Endogenous Education Choices.” International Economic Review 47 (4): 1151–85. Fang, Hanming, and Andrea Moro. 2011. “Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey.” In Handbook of Social Economics, vol. 1A, edited by Jess Benhabib, Matthew Jackson, and Alberto Bisin, 133–200. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Farber, Henry, and
The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow
by Gil Troy · 14 Apr 2018 · 649pp · 185,618 words
history. . . . If feminists can understand why history entitles lesbians to separatism, or minorities and women to affirmative action, we can understand why history entitles Jews to “preferential” safe space. To me, Zionism is simply an affirmative action plan on a national scale. Just as legal remedies are justified in reparation for racism and sexism
Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
by Mary Catherine Bateson · 13 Sep 2010 · 287pp · 99,131 words
young blacks. So I was sent out as a lawyer for the hotel chain to negotiate some sort of a settlement. I worked out an affirmative action deal with the mayor and the hotel, in which the hotel would hire two blacks every year. “Then, on my way back home—it was
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faculty in large numbers, which ones don’t.” Ted’s focus in Adulthood II has been the creation and maintenance of the journal, tracking academic affirmative action and hiring policies across the country. Ted explained that he still had no succession plan to maintain the journal, which he works on full-time
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, having a black skin may be an advantage in applying for certain positions. Being a woman has an important advantage in becoming a college president! Affirmative action has shifted the biological disadvantage to advantage in some contexts. I think that’s good. Who would dream that this could have happened? “It’s
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