Our kind reader Michael Sharon

Our kind reader Michael Sharon has forwarded one of Professor Stephan Thernstrom’s articles on the Bowen/Bok book supporting affirmative action, The Shape of the River. The article was published in Commentary in February 1999 and I believe it is a shortened version of Professor Thernstrom’s much longer law review article to which Deacon alludes below. The Commentary article is “Racial preferences: What we now know” and is in any event an outstanding and utterly devastating consideration of the Bowen/Bok party line on preferences.

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