An all-white panel of two professors and a student persuaded the majority of an audience that affirmative action does not truly benefit minorities at last night’s Great Debate in the Tsai Performance ...

After the crowd’s applause for his opponent died down, Dinesh D’Souza said he felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. Facing popular affirmative action advocate Tim Wise in a heated debate on the ...

Clegg's organization originally started the study in support of a ballot proposition being pushed by millionaire California entrepreneur Ward Connerly to outlaw affirmative-action programs not only in ...

Introduction : To look like America / Nicolaus Mills -- A negative vote on affirmative action / Shelby Steele -- Persuasion and distrust : the affirmative action debate / Randall Kennedy -- Feminism ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The issue of affirmative action is returning to campus this semester with a five-part lecture ...

Gilbert said that at the end of the day, the debate over affirmative action isn’t really about race at all. “I think race, gender, national origin, are scapegoats in this whole debate because even if ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing yet another affirmative action case from Michigan. This time the Court is considering the constitutionality of a 2006 state referendum that bans the use ...

Many colleges and universities use race as a factor in admissions, but the approach has been a hot-button issue for decades — even making its way to the Supreme Court several times since the late ...

Princeton University professor Jason Frymer and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley debate the resolution, "The U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision to dismantle affirmative action in American ...

Between bombshell op-eds and a federal court case on college admissions, race-based affirmative action is back in the pundits' spotlight. Earlier this week, Peter Beinart joined Ross Douthat in ...