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June 29, 2023 — Steven Hayward
As I predicted, colleges are determined to defy the Supreme Court’s ruling today. Harvard’s new president issued a statement about how this is a “hard day,” along with a signal that they stand ready to find a workaround: I guess they missed this part of Roberts’s opinion: Despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful
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June 29, 2023 — Steven Hayward
On page 31 of today’s Supreme Court opinion in the Harvard affirmative action admissions case, Chief Justice Roberts included this table to demonstrate how Harvard obviously uses de facto quotas to determine the composition of its classes: As Roberts puts it. “Harvard’s focus on numbers is obvious.”
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April 13, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin is an alumnus of Harvard who is grateful for his education. He has given millions to Harvard. Most recently, he gave an unrestricted gift of $300 million to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is to be renamed in his honor. It’s hard to believe he couldn’t resist the temptation, find a worthier object of his charity, or
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March 23, 2023 — Steven Hayward
You seldom look to The New Yorker for support for a conservative cause, but today the storied magazine published a devastating article by Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Harvard affirmative action case now pending at the Supreme Court. The article, “The Secret Joke at the Heart of the Harvard Affirmative-Action Case,” is devastating not only on the merits, but also for the conduct and rulings of District Court
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February 13, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I saw that headline and thought I should look into it. Is there an epidemic of anti-gay violence at my old law school? Just kidding. This is the Harvard Crimson story: A Harvard Law School student was arrested after allegedly assaulting a fellow HLS student in a homophobic attack last month, according to a Harvard University Police report. According to the report, HLS student Naod N. Nega approached another student
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January 25, 2023 — Steven Hayward
It has long been noted that the obsession with “diversity” in our colleges and universities does not extend to diversity of thought or political opinion. The Harvard Crimson surveyed the faculty, and found out that the number of Harvard faculty who identify themselves as “conservative/very conservative” is practically a rounding error (1.46% conservative versus 79.7% liberal). Perhaps faculty responding to an anonymous survey lie about their ideology, but shouldn’t that
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November 1, 2022 — John Hinderaker
It is sad that 161 years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, and 154 years after the adoption of the 14th Amendment, we are still debating whether public institutions like the University of North Carolina should be able to engage in race discrimination. One might have thought that by now, that issue would have been settled. Liberals seem resigned to the fact that that they now will have to pretend,
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October 13, 2022 — Steven Hayward
You think the Biden inflation is bad? Check out grade inflation at Harvard. Maybe there is a connection between monetary inflation and grade inflation, since so many of our economic elite that have mismanaged our economy come from Harvard and equivalent institutions. Or perhaps Harvard kids really are just that much smarter than they were 50 years ago. I’m sure Harvard students all think so. (You can stop laughing any
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September 13, 2022 — John Hinderaker
Brian Stelter was fired by CNN as part of the network’s effort to shift its image away from far left commentary and toward mainstream news coverage. While at CNN, Stelter used his platform to aggressively promote Democratic Party themes, and in particular to make war on CNN’s more successful rival, Fox News. But Stelter has landed on his feet: he is going to Harvard. Stelter broke the news on social
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April 2, 2022 — Steven Hayward
Historian Richard Samuelson turned up for Friday evening happy hour this week, with 14-year-old Oban in hand, to kick around this week’s less-than-neat headlines. Is it merely a coincidence that Jen Psaki chose April Fools’ Day to have the news come out that she’s going to join MSNBC? Irony is truly dead. Meanwhile, on the great existential question of the week—”Team Smith” or “Team Rock”—Lucretia disdains either choice, while affirming the
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February 11, 2022 — Paul Mirengoff
John Comaroff is a professor of African and American studies and anthropology at Harvard. Some female graduate students have accused him of sexual misconduct. Harvard responded by sanctioning him for allegedly violating its policies on the subject. He’s on unpaid leave, and barred from teaching required courses and taking on additional advisees through the next academic year. Thirty-eight Harvard faculty members complained about the sanctioning in an open letter supporting
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January 28, 2022 — Paul Mirengoff
They used to say that 1,000 Frenchmen can’t be wrong. But what about nine “diverse” Harvard students? The Harvard Gazette, a house organ that’s sent to every Harvard alum (including four current Supreme Court Justices), presents an article with the title “Students call ensuring diversity on campus vital.” The piece purports to describe the position of Harvard students regarding their college’s preferential admissions policy, a challenge to which is now
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January 25, 2022 — Paul Mirengoff
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a case challenging Harvard’s use of racial preferences in admissions for the benefit of Blacks. Today, Harvard’s president, Lawrence Bacow, sent a message to the Harvard community bemoaning the cert grant. By my count, the letter must have gone to four members of the Supreme Court by virtue of their having attended Harvard (and in one
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January 24, 2022 — Paul Mirengoff
Following today’s decision by the Supreme Court to hear its case against Harvard, Students for Fair Admissions released a video describing how Harvard discriminates against Asian-Americans who seek admission. The video puts a human face on Harvard’s insulting and racist treatment of this whole category of applicants. Those interested in quantifying the extent of racial discrimination at top Ivy League schools can consult this post. It shows just how much
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June 14, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
Instead of granting the petition to hear Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard, the Supreme Court has asked the U.S. Solicitor General (in this case, the acting one) for her views on the matter. There’s no doubt as to what the Biden Justice Department thinks about Harvard’s policy of granting extreme race-based preferences to Blacks and Latinos at the expense of Asian-Americans and Whites. Nor is there any doubt as
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May 25, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
We are writing with unfortunate frequency about the spread of the racial spoils system in the U.S. That system first took hold in college admissions policies. The Supreme Court could have stopped it in its tracks, but declined early on to do so. Since then, it has continued to tolerate blatant racial discrimination against Whites and Asian-Americans. Now, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to address the problem it helped
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April 15, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
During yesterday’s hearing on the nomination of Kristen Clarke to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the nominee was asked about an article she wrote while a student at Harvard. In that article, Clarke argued that Blacks are superior to Whites in numerous respects. We discussed Clarke’s racist claim here. Clarke told Senators that the article was satire. But, as David Harsanyi points out, there is no evidence to
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