When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything
23 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
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Queensland University of Technology completely ditches merit-based hiring, favoring gender, “looks”, and personality
18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
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This gem of a story is about how one Aussie university went to the logical endpoint of the diversity-trumps-merit controversy: Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane is apparently about to hire solely on the basis of diversity, and has erased any mention of the word “merit” in its hiring policy. This of course is ridiculous, […]
Queensland University of Technology completely ditches merit-based hiring, favoring gender, “looks”, and personality
Bari Weiss proposes ending DEI
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
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Bari Weiss, head of the Free Press, just published this article on her website, but it appeared in Tablet, in identical form, a few days ago. You can click on the headline below to read it, or go here to see it on her site. As the subheader on her FP article says, “It’s not […]
Bari Weiss proposes ending DEI
Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
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Jon Haidt on a new book, the silence of university leaders, self-censorship, and America’s loss of confidence in higher education
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
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UPDATE: See a positive review of this new book (as well as a related one by Yacha Mounk) at The Economist. This week, Jon Haidt’s short Substack piece (click on title screenshot below to read it), does four things: he introduces a new book, explains why University leaders remained largely silent (or waited a few […]
Jon Haidt on a new book, the silence of university leaders, self-censorship, and America’s loss of confidence in higher education
Thomas Sowell – The Real World Effects of Preferential Policies
12 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
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Glenn C. Loury on Ethics of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
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Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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How do B- students keep up with pace of medical school course, much less pass exams?
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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Dominion Post 19 September 2020, p. A7
Discrimination at Harvard? | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono [The Glenn Show]
11 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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Richard Sander on affirmative action and education mismatch
06 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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Affirmative Action and Its Mythology – Fryer and Loury
06 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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WHERE BROWN V. BOARD FELL SHORT – George Will 1994
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Glenn C. Loury on Ethics of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
15 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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