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Discriminations

who? Discriminations is the joint production of John and Jessie Rosenberg. John is one of the world's older grad students, now completing a 30-year overdue dissertation at Stanford on discrimination. Jessie is a 16 year old junior at Bryn Mawr College majoring in physics.
\r\nwhat? John's focus, not surprisingly, will be on the theory and practice of discrimination, and how it is reported and analyzed.
\r\nJessie's will be discriminating thoughts on ... whatever catches her fancy or attracts her attention. (Email: jrosenbe@brynmawr.edu)

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Discrimination Based On Heredity

Posted on January 16, 2008
Adam Liptak collects some of the usual criticisms of legacy preferances, as well as some new-fangled ones, in this New York Times column yesterday. (HatTip to reader Jian Li for reminding me that it is worth attention.) ?The usual justification for legacy preferences,? he writes, is candidly cynical: they generate contributions from alumni...

The Democrats, Equality, And ?Difference?

Posted on January 15, 2008
Last Sunday the ?Week in Review? section of the New York Times ran a long article on the ?improbable collision course? between the civil rights movement and the women?s movement. It provided a useful overview of the close but also often strained relations between the two movements...

Hillary Clinton As Jennifer Gratz?

Posted on January 15, 2008
The current Democratic kerfuffle over race and gender may have a wholesome if unintended benefit. Rasmussen reports that ?among white voters, Clinton leads 41% to 27%. Among African-American voters, Obama leads 66% to 16%.? Clearly, Hillary and her supporters can?t be pleased about these numbers...

Democrats Famously Not Raising Issues That Would Help Them

Posted on January 14, 2008
Adlai Stevenson, in his acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1956, courageously refusing to raise the issue of President Eisenhower?s health (after his heart attack) in 1956: I do not propose to make political capital out of the President?s illness...

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Blog Housekeeping

Posted on January 13, 2008
My online host is moving my account to a new piece of hardware, and it?s possible as a result that the blog road may be a bit bumpy over the next day or so. Any disruption should be short and mild, but do let me know by email if you have trouble with anything.

Hill-arity

Posted on January 13, 2008
Hill-arity Sometimes a candidate?s character or true colors are revealed by offhand comments that never make their way into the national debate. I?ve recently seen two from Hillary that strike me as, well, Hill-arious. Here?s one, from New Hampshire: At one stop in Manchester, she promised to create ?a government blogging team? that would help keep taxpayers informed...

Hillary?s Racial ?Firewall?

Posted on January 13, 2008
A little over a week ago I discussed (here) an argument by John Judis in The New Republic that Hillary?s real firewall against Obama was her support among Hispanics, who would be reluctant to support a black candidate. It appears that Hillary?s campaign is very much aware of its reliance upon this race bias...

?Racial Tensions Roil Democratic Race?

Posted on January 11, 2008
So says this long review of racial backbiting that has broken out among Democrats, with Obama supporters stating resentment against various comments coming from both Clintons that they regard as racially insensitive. If Obama has any ?beef? to offer, it is the promise ? so far, much more potential, implicit, than actual ? to ?bring us together,? to move beyond the outdated racial script of conflict and division...

Clegg II: Is ?Diversity? Good For Business?

Posted on January 11, 2008
In my immediately preceding post I quoted some remarks Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity will deliver at a conference on racial preference in Los Angeles on January 19. Below I?ll be quoting from some testimony he delivered to the EEOC last February (hence the title: ?Clegg II)...

Clegg & Connerly At Conference

Posted on January 11, 2008
Here?s a conference I really wish I could attend. Any of you around Los Angeles on January 19 have an opportunity to spend an enlightening day listening to a number of knowledgeable speakers, including Ward Connerly (the keynote speaker) and Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity...

Women And The ?Bradley Effect?

Posted on January 10, 2008
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED ... twice] As pollsters, pundits, and politicians paw through the ashes of their burned predictions about the New Hampshire primary, the one explanation of their failure that has garnered by far the most speculation is the ?Bradley Effect,? named after Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley...

Harvard: No Whites, Asians, Men, etc., Need Apply...

Posted on January 09, 2008
The News Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that Harvard is establishing a ?Postdoc Program for Underrepresented Groups.? Harvard University will award 12 new postdoctoral fellowships in chemistry this spring that are particularly aimed at women and members of ethnic minority groups...

We Are A Racist, Sexist Country...

Posted on January 09, 2008
We are a racist, sexist country. The evidence, according to a prominent black journalist and the archetypical feminist: a black man (sort of) won the Iowa caucuses and a white woman won the New Hampshire primary. The prominent journalist, Bill Maxwell, a columnist with the St...

Massive New Study Of Affirmative Action Underway

Posted on January 08, 2008
Long-time readers will know that I have referred often to the work of UCLA law professor Richard Sander on the effect of ?diversity? in law school admissions, especially his ?mismatch? theory that racial preferences have actually tended to reduce the number of black lawyers by placing black law students in institutions where they cluster at the bottom of their classes, fail to finish law school, and fail the bar exam in highly disproportionate numbers...

Official Missouri Misconduct Struck Down!

Posted on January 07, 2008
I have described on several occasions the ?dramatically duplicitous attempt of Robin Carnahan, Missouri?s Democratic Secretary of State, to defeat the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative by rewriting it into oblivion.? (See here, here, here, and here.) On Monday Secretary Carnahan got her much-deserved comeuppance when Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan threw out the duplicitous and misleading summary she had attempted to place on the Missouri ballot...

Two Views Of Obama ... And A Clintonian Question

Posted on January 06, 2008
At the risk of premature speculation, it appears that two still somewhat hazy but nevertheless distinctive views of Barack Obama are beginning to emerge. In one view he is a typical, traditional liberal Democrat, distinctive only in his inexperience, his bi-racial heritage, and his effective use of rhetoric promising ?hope? and ?change,? ?a new direction,? etc...