January 2, 2020
Modern social theories like Social Darwinism, eugenics, Nazism, and (Peter Singer’s) Utilitarian Hedonism, begin by rejecting Christian ethics, insisting that these standards are neither self-ev......
January 2, 2020
America’s institutions of higher education face an intractable problem: excellence and equality—the two principles college admissions offices are ostensibly committed to—are mutually......
January 2, 2020
In the first article for our Distinctions feature, Gene Dattell explains how the integrationist goals of the postbellum civil rights movement, emblematized by the effort to integrate schools......
January 3, 2020
Despite the opposition of a majority of Americans, elites have ensconced an "outcome-of-the-game-equality" in our educational institutions, discarding the “entry-rights-to-the-game-equal......
January 3, 2020
A careful review of the data reveals that hate crimes are not on the rise in the U.S. and that interracial violence is rare. Ironically, this could be a major factor in boosting the rate of falsely re......
January 3, 2020
The nineteenth century Transcendentalists were the first true multiculturalists in America, insisting that the individual seek truth in all of the world’s great religions. They are ignored by to......
January 3, 2020
The distinction between individualism and collectivism is not as easy to discern as might be presumed. But commonly held notions about where each philosophical position leads when taken to extremes ar......
January 3, 2020
“Diversity and inclusion for thee but not for me” is how David Randall describes the thesis of Anthony Kronman’s 2019 book The Assault on American Excellence. Kronman, the......
January 3, 2020
A review of Meera E. Deo's book Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia.
January 3, 2020
"Elite colleges have an obsessive focus on diversity, but it’s generally limited to diversity of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Their commitment to diversity of class is not as clear,......
