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16 Mar 2023, 7:08 am
Excellent substack column by Freddie deBoer, and a great rebuke to those who tendentiously claim that "woke" is a racially tinged slur: [I]t's absurd that so many people pretend not to know what woke means, and the problem could be easily solved if people who support woke politics would adopt a name for others to use. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 8:16 am
Inside Higher Ed reports that there will be no sanctions, nor even an investigation, of the students who disrupted Josh Blackman's talk: Via email on Sunday, Mary Lu Bilek, dean of the law school, said that the protest was reasonable because the disruptions ended relatively early in the time frame of the appearance. [read post]
18 Sep 2023, 1:45 pm
[The Jewish world was once ruled by a religious lawyerocracy; the Zionist left wants a secular version.] [read post]
26 May 2024, 7:30 am
[It's probably not who you think.] [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 1:59 pm
At oral argument in the recent affirmative action cases, attorneys for the defendants argued that although they do ask applicants to check a racial/ethnic box, they do not limit their consideration of diversity just to those classifications, but also to religion, ideology, and other aspects of identity that affect viewpoint. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 12:06 pm
Ilya has already done his annual post on Conspirator-authored books you can give your friends and loved ones as holiday gifts. [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 6:23 pm
Here's a little tidbit that didn't make it into Classified. [read post]
10 Oct 2024, 6:13 pm
From Kassy Akiva's X feed: At Harvard for an event with Mosab Hassan Yousef [author of Son of Hamas]. [read post]
22 Sep 2024, 7:49 am
This year's entering class is the first since admissions decisions were constrained by the Supreme Court's ban on racial preferences in the SFFA case, and lots of interesting data have been coming out. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 6:20 am
One originalist argument in favor of allowing the government to engage in "race-conscious" policies is that the post-Civil War Freedmen's Bureau was established to assist freedmen and refugees, the vast majority of whom were black, as Congress was well aware. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 8:08 am
It's by perhaps Israel's best national security journalist, Haviv Rettig Gur: Theories abound about Hamas's reasons for the assault. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 4:25 pm
[Moral clarity from Scalia Dean Ken Randall, and lack thereof from NYU Dean Troy McKenzie] Some other time, I will express my views on when and if university administrators should express opinions about the issues of the day. [read post]
21 May 2022, 6:50 am
Here's a curious case described in the Washington Post in 1980, one that didn't make it into my forthcoming book on racial classifications: Miguel Sandoval arrived in Harlem in 1959 from Havana, where he'd been an outspoken advocate of better civil rights for black Cubans. [read post]
12 Feb 2023, 2:24 pm
An interesting essay by New York Law School professor Rebecca Roiphe. [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 4:20 pm
Apparently jealous of all the attention that Yale and Stanford law students have gotten for acting like imperious children, Columbia law students, represented by BALSA, LALSA, NALSA, EWOC, OutLaws, QTPOC, IfWhenHow, APALSA, and SALSA (no, I'm not familiar with all of these acronyms), have been throwing a collective hissy fit. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 7:20 am
(Two background notes. (1)Nick Riemer is a very prominent Australian "progressive" "antizionist" and his views expressed here are relatively moderate compared to those who are celebrated Hamas' "act of resistance" though less moderate than those engaging in "both sideism"; (2) Everyone knows that the slaughter, rape, kidnapping, and so on of hundreds of Israelis is precisely what Hamas would do to the entire Jewish population of Israel if it had the power… [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 5:44 am
In the New York Times, some acknowledgements of failure of the sort we rarely see from US officials. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 8:16 am
[Seattle University is hosting eleven speakers for the webinar, all of whom support racial preferences.] [read post]
3 May 2024, 11:33 am
I have a piece up at National Review Online about the Antisemitism Awareness Act. [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 5:10 pm
Liberal ideas can result in racism, but not for the reasons leftist scholars have posited.Over the last few years, I've noticed that it's increasingly popular among leftist academics to blame the rise of liberalism (individual rights, equality under the law, competitive markets, constitutional limited government, etc.) in the nineteenth century for the rise of racist ideologies in the same time period. [read post]
