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January 14, 2010

Book Review: Voting Rights - And Wrongs, The Quest for Racially Fair Elections

Ed Cutting

A review of a new book about the Voting Rights Act by NAS Board of Advisors member Abigail Thernstrom.

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January 13, 2010

Roger Clegg on Why Race-Based Affirmative Action Isn't Worth It

Ashley Thorne

From Minding the Campus: It is personally unfair, passes over better qualified students, and sets a disturbing legal, political, and moral precedent in allowing racial discrimination; it creates r......

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January 13, 2010

Origin of Social Justice Education: Mill's Utilitarianism

Mitchell Langbert

I always thought of utilitarianism as a somewhat capitalistic hence individualistic philosophy.  I seem to remember reading John Stuart Mill's On Liberty in college and passages about the r......

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January 13, 2010

Tribalization of Science

Mitchell Langbert

Two years ago I blogged that the hard sciences had not suffered the political correctness that has hamstrung the social sciences.  In response,  Frank Tipler, a mathematical physicist at T......

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January 13, 2010

Making Higher Education Count

Ashley Thorne

How do we know whether American universities are really educating students?

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