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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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Will Insults Poodles!

Posted on February 14, 2010
George Will, in this morning?s Washington Post: Democrats, in their canine devotion to teachers unions, oppose empowering poor children to escape dependency on even terrible government schools. Unions and their poodles say school choice siphons money from public schools...

Affirmative Action And Stigma: Cose And Effect?

Posted on February 13, 2010
I have criticized the race writing of Newsweek?s Ellis Cose several times, such as here, here, and especially here. A large, hard to miss target in his work is his pooh-poohing of the idea that race preferences brand their intended beneficiaries with a stigma, often inducing anger or self-doubt or both...

A Wolfe At Sowell?s Door

Posted on February 12, 2010
Alan Wolfe thinks Thomas Sowell is no fun, a humorless, repetitive bore. To see why, and presumably to see an example of how Sowell would write if he were a more interesting writer, read Wolfe?s clever, oh so clever, review in the New Republic. Alan Wolfe is an old friend, or at least acquaintance (we both were related to The Nation years ago, in former lives), though we haven?t stayed in touch...

Health Care Reconciliation: Fraud, Trick, Whatever

Posted on February 12, 2010
In The Dems Prepare To Vote For A Fraud I called ramming through Obamacare by reconciliation a fraud, requiring the House to pass and the president to sign ?a fraudulent Potemkin bill.? Now comes Nancy Pelosi?s chief health care aide, Wendell Primus, who calls it ?a trick...

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Has Al Sharpton Changed His Spots?

Posted on February 11, 2010
I think there are two items worth noting about yesterday?s meeting of ?civil rights leaders? with President Obama, a meeting whose purpose was ?to address the jobless rate in the hardest-hit areas of the nation, particularly in black communities, where the unemployment rate is well above the national average...

Bipartisanship?

Posted on February 10, 2010
At the same time that the president was calling for bipartisanship and putting ?petty politics? aside, 1. His spokesman, Glib Gibbs, mocked of Sarah Palin for having some notes on her hand (this from the mouthpiece of a man so wedded to the TelePrompTer that he used one to read his remarks to fifth graders )...

Sacrilege!

Posted on February 10, 2010
In a post yesterday (Is Obama ?Everything??) I referred to the sense in which Democrats do seem to regard Obama as The Messiah, as in ?the Alpha and the Omega? from Revelation 22:13. (Otherwise how could they argue that Republican opposition to their 2700 page health care bill means they oppose ?everything??) Now comes a leading acolyte in the Church of Obama, Evan Thomas of Newsweek, to commit what can only be described as sacrilege...

Stigma, Gay Philosophers, And Christian Colleges

Posted on February 10, 2010
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that Calvin College, a ?distinctively Christian? liberal arts college, has become the first institution to run afoul of a new rule adopted by the American Philosophical Association ?requiring any college that violates any part of the association's anti-bias policy to have job listings with the association flagged...

?Opportunities? Quiz

Posted on February 09, 2010
A few days ago I criticized an entry on a Chronicle of Higher Education blog, The Ticker, that found less ?opportunities? for women as coaches and athletic directors based only on evidence that women made up a higher proportion of players than of coaches and ADs...

Is Obama ?Everything??

Posted on February 09, 2010
In my previous post I pointed to an excellent analysis of liberal condescension and gave a couple of examples of it (and discussed a fabulous example of it here). This condescension, as many others have pointed out, is in large part a product of liberals? faith in their superior morality and their superior knowledge (?if conservatives weren?t evil or stupid they?d be more like us?)...

Why Are Liberal Arts Professors Liberal?

Posted on February 08, 2010
Jere P. Surber, a professor of philosophy at the University of Denver, is either a world-class satirist who has written a hilarious parody of explanations of the liberal arts professoriate?s liberal bias or (and I suspect much more likely) the author of another attempt at an explanation that is actually an example, to the point of being an unintended caricature, of the liberal bias in the academy that he purports to explain...

There They Go Again...

Posted on February 08, 2010
A few days ago Gerard Alexander had a fascinating article in the Washington Post that asked Why Are Liberals So Condescending? On the same day Real Clear Politics linked an article by Jacob Weisberg, editor of SLATE, who involuntarily volunteered to be a case study of what Alexander had in mind with an article whose advice was to Blame the Childish, Ignorant American Public...

Physics Envy?

Posted on February 08, 2010
Thomas Bartlett writes on a Chronicle of Higher Education blog this morning that ?social sciences are easier than the natural sciences, according to second graders.? Adults more or less agree. A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology took a look at which disciplines children and adults thought were the most difficult to learn...

?Diversity? Research Advances Progresses Accumulates

Posted on February 06, 2010
In a long, interesting, and valuable article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Peter Schmidt reviews what he describes as the ?increased nuance and complexity? of a ?new wave of research on campus diversity.? The new research, he writes, holds the promise of improving how colleges serve students of different hues...

More On Espenshade On Affirmative Action

Posted on February 06, 2010
I have written a number of times about the recent research on the racial achievement gap and affirmative action by Princenton Professor Thomas Espenshade and various co-authors: here, here, here, here, and most recently here. He is also one of the new scholars writing about ?diversity? that Peter Schmidt mentioned in an article I just discussed here...

Opportunities?

Posted on February 05, 2010
On its ?The Ticker? blog, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports: Opportunities Abound for Female Athletes, but Less So for Coaches and AD?s, Report Says New data in a study that has tracked women?s involvement in collegiate sports over 33 years suggest that while more women compete on college teams than in previous years, they are still in the minority among coaches and leaders of athletic departments...

Virginia Senate Passes Roadblock To Obamacare

Posted on February 05, 2010
This week, with bi-partisan majorities, the Virginia Senate passed bills that ?make it clear that no resident of the Commonwealth shall be required to purchase health insurance.? According to state Republican Party Chairman Pat Mullins, ?Monday?s bipartisan vote illustrates just how far out of touch Democrats like Rep...

A Presidential Quote For The Ages! What A Party...

Posted on February 04, 2010
At a carefully staged appearance at a Democratic retreat, Senate Democrats held back from asking President Barack Obama about healthcare reform during a carefully scripted question-and-answer session in front of television cameras. With the cameras rolling, a group of senators selected in advance by the Democratic leadership asked questions about such topics as partisan gridlock and GOP obstruction...

The President Admits That He Some Sneaky People Violated His ?Pledge?

Posted on January 31, 2010
President Obama, speaking in Holmdel, New Jersey, 16 July 2009: ?Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you,? the president told residents of the Garden State. ?First of all, if you?ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan...

Follow Your Leader!

Posted on January 31, 2010
I thought the RealClearPolitics link to Anna Quindlen?s Newsweek article, ?Obama Won. Now Follow the Leader,? was a mischaracterization of it. She couldn?t have really said that. But she did, and it isn?t. The article?s actual title accurately summarizes its argument: ?Follow the Leader...

The Dems Prepare To Vote For A Fraud

Posted on January 31, 2010
In the post immediately below I discussed a conspiracy of Congressional Democrats meeting behind closed doors to impose a revived health reform bill on a public they regard as dumb and forgetful. Standard procedure requires the Senate and House to pass identical bills before submitting the legislation to the president for his signature...

Obama?s Not Alone In Thinking We?re Too Dumb To Appreciate Him

Posted on January 31, 2010
The Los Angeles Times reports today that Democrats are conspiring behind closed doors on methods to revive and pass health reform. You may be forgive for thinking the LAT didn?t put it quite that way, but I don?t believe I?ve mischaracterized their report...

Chris Matthews, Plagiarist?

Posted on January 28, 2010
Really, if Chris Matthews didn?t exist (he does exist, doesn?t he? Or is he simply a figment of Rachel Maddow?s and Keith Olbermann?s imaginations?) we?d have to invent him. I?m not even referring to the thrill he felt going up his leg when he heard Obama speak, but to his even more dramatic outdoing of Harry Reid?s Negro dialect gaffe...

More On Berkeley?s ?Equity?-Induced Educational Fiasco

Posted on January 28, 2010
Last month I discussed how Berkeley Solves Racial Achievement Gap!. ?The solution,? I wrote, quoting a recent proposal that had been approved at a meeting of the Berkeley High School Governance Council, is both obvious and simple: ?eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students...

Talk About Screwed Up!

Posted on January 27, 2010
John Gibson, former president of Alabama A & M, has a letter in the Chronicle of Higher Education, ?Affirmative Action: Let's Not Screw It Up,? stating that he is ?amazed at the passionate outcries against affirmative action,? citing this article in particular (an article I discussed here...

New Report On ?Educational Crisis? For Minority Men

Posted on January 27, 2010
Inside Higher Ed reports today that the College Board has released a new study, ?The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color,? and the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that four Democratic members of Congress met on Tuesday to discuss its findings regarding ?the barriers minority men face along the path to higher education...

Bank Shot Bakke?

Posted on January 25, 2010
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED] Over thirty years ago the University of California got into big trouble because its medical school at the Davis campus had two admissions programs for the entering class of 100 students - the regular admissions program and the special admissions program...

The NYT Blows It ... Again

Posted on January 23, 2010
According to Charles Blow of the New York Times this morning, apparently all voters except the saving remnant of Democrats are now mindless, belligerent Tea Partiers. Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across the political spectrum, still craving change, nursing a bloodlust...

UPDATE!

Posted on January 21, 2010
Dropping The Balz has been UPDATED.

The Importance Of Scott Brown: Everyone Agrees, But ...

Posted on January 20, 2010
For once, everyone agrees: the astounding election of Scott Brown changes everything. But as usual, when everyone agrees it?s wise to wonder what everyone is missing. What is lost among the cacophony of ?cataclysmic change!? that is coming from Left, Right, and Center, I think, is realization of the fact that reducing the number of Senate Democrats from 60 to 59 puts it right back it was shortly after Obama was elected...

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