News
Duke professor’s new book explores freedom and diversity
This free process of arranging diverse elements by merit in a hierarchy is how nature finds successful solutions to problems.
Opinion
The World Cup showed the limits of managed soccer
America does not need more managed soccer. It needs a more competitive game, built less like a protected hierarchy and more like an open market.
Opinion
Bring back merit: UNC System should weigh applicant test scores
By letting students withhold low test scores (students don’t withhold high scores), UNC is essentially ignoring a sign of poor performance.
Opinion
The paradox of privilege
Many privileges we have are simply due to people building good things for their families and communities to set them up for success. And we'd be dishonoring their efforts by trampling on what they've handed us.
Opinion
Legacy preferences should join racial preferences in dustbin
The nation’s highest court decided in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard on June 29 that universities could no longer practice racial discrimination in the name of diversity. The court made clear that, under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” In other words, there...
Opinion
In high school, the easy ‘A’ is even easier
Call it high-grade high school. When it comes to letter-grade earning power, high-schoolers are rich indeed. Grade inflation is real and it’s inequitable, padding the GPAs of wealthier students faster than others. Such are the findings of a Fordham Institute study that tracked grades in North Carolina public schools for over a decade. Increasingly, A...
Opinion
Where’s the Intellectual Diversity?
Administrators should recognize both the social biases that hurt students of certain backgrounds and the growing biases within their institutions that stunt intellectual inquiry, sterilize campus life, devalue research and diplomas, and deprive the public of the kinds of places they want to send their offspring.
Opinion
Guinier Remains Wedded to Collectivism and Quotas
Readers will get the feeling that Lani Guinier dislikes not only the SAT but also other standardized tests, and she clearly is uncomfortable with the whole idea of individual merit.
Opinion
Margaret Thatcher Will Be Missed
Politicians of all stripes can learn valuable lessons from the so-called Iron Lady.
Opinion
Inequality And Lack of Economic Mobility Are Moving Voters
Americans worry that an individual's place on the economic ladder is determined more by an accident of birth than a person's talent and industry.
Opinion
Flashback: The New Campus Discrimination
Preferring men over women in college admissions would once have been considered unjust. Now, with affirmative-action extremism gone amok, it is considered progressive.
Opinion
The New Campus Discrimination
Preferring men over women in college admissions would once have been considered unjust. Now, with affirmative-action extremism gone amok, it is considered progressive.
