George W. Dent

Articles

May 26, 2020

Testing Affirmative Action

George W. Dent and Hal R. Arkes

The Supreme Court has held that courts must strictly scrutinize systems that give preferences to people based on their race. Judges need to insist on disaggregated data and evidence that a university......

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September 7, 2017

Law Professors Celebrate Marriage and Work Ethic, Immediately Attacked as Racists

George W. Dent

Daring to defend the insitution of marriage and hard work will now get you in trouble with the thought police. 

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February 27, 2017

Association of American Law Schools Snubs Pleas for Viewpoint Diversity

George W. Dent

George Dent writes about the lack of viewpoint diversity in American law schools.

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November 30, 2015

The Self-Defeating Claim that Women and Minorities are Weak and Fragile

George W. Dent

The desire for "safe spaces" is an affirmation of weakness that is false and pernicious.

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October 20, 2015

Association of American Law Schools: Conservatives Not Welcome

George W. Dent

The Association of American Law Schools tilts the deck against conservatives.

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May 5, 2014

Sonia, What Happened?

George W. Dent

Sonia Sotomayor's impassioned dissent in Schuette v. BAMN seems to contradict views she expressed in her memoir, My Beloved Land.

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March 8, 2013

Panic at Oberlin

George W. Dent

Classes are canceled at Oberlin College because of racist graffiti and Ku Klux Klan sightings.

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February 28, 2013

Emory University's Outcry Against Its President

George W. Dent

Emory University President John Wagner has been vilified by faculty and students for praising the three-fifths compromise in the original Constitution.

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June 18, 2012

Free Speech Vindicated at University of Cincinnati

George W. Dent

Another university's restriction of free speech is judged unconstitutional.

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May 3, 2011

Oops! In Dean Search Political Bias Went Public

George W. Dent

Case Western Reserve University School of Law rejected a conservative candidate after a website raised objections to his politics.

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