In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call John Rosenberg reviews a recent book that purports to show how awful it was for California to have adopted Proposition 209, thereby dropping racial preferences. Alas, it’s just the same, tired, often-refuted claims, stated over and over.
You might think that scholars writing a book on the alleged need for “diversity” would try to deal with the counter-arguments that it does not in fact produce a “better” student body or improved learning environment, and that it can damage its supposed beneficiaries. But no — the book is mere cheerleading for racial preferences rather than an examination of it.
