“Include me out.” Samuel Goldwyn I just caught up with Ross Douthat at The New York Times on “The Roots of White Anxiety.” Up until Douthat’s OpEd, I would have said the root (singular) is that it isn’t all about them (whites) anymore. But now Douthat tells us, No, really, it isn’t all about whites […]
Finding Meaning in the New Haven Firefighters Case
It gives me no pleasure to be in the company of the majority justices in the Supreme Court’s New Haven firefighters decision, Ricci v. DeStefano, (particularly that of Justice Thomas, who only days earlier was the sole justice to support the right of high school administrators to strip search teenage girls in search of pharmaceuticals, […]
Affirmative Factions
Or how not to make social policy. There have been many newspaper reports in recent days on the upcoming, April 21, hearing by the Supreme Court of Ricci, et al. v. DeStefano, et al. – the Hartford Current and the New York Times among them. At issue is a 2004 promotion test within the New […]