Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute focuses on the U.S. Constitution’s enduring importance. The politics of 21st-century America has overflowed with constitutional controversies. From debates about war and emergency…
Media reports tell us President Obama previewed his re-election campaign with a speech at Osawatomie, Kans., today. In 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt launched his bid for a second full…
Minding the Campus has this great essay by Ward Connerly on the continuing battle over race preferences in California, despite Proposition 209. Connerly, BTW, was the keynote speaker at last…
Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has recently upset a lot of people on the left with his study finding that diversity has its downside — in more “diverse” communities, there is…
Ward Connerly was the keynote speaker at last year’s annual Pope Center conference. He argued that it is time for America to get past its fixation on race (and other…
Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the US Civil Rights Commission who brooks no nonsense on the subject of civil rights calls last week’s ruliing in Parents v. Seattle gibberish. Her…
From the Supreme Court Case that gave the nod to racial preferences in higher education, comes George Leef‘s assessment of the ruling in The Freeman. “When it comes to universities,”…
In the current Chronicle Review, Naomi Schaefer Riley has an excellent essay entitled “The Risks of Multiracial Identification.” The omnipresent mania for “diversity” on college campuses is much like other…
Thanks to everyone from the John Locke Foundation who attended the conference, and also Locker Room readers who were there. The event went well and should provide raw material for…
This past year, I was talking to someone I know that was applying to law school.? Given the competition of getting in, we discussed the fact that if he told…
Next weekend, the Pope Center is holding its annual conference. The theme this year is “Diversity: How Much and What Kinds Do Universities Need?” That prompted me to write an…
Mike Adams has a hilarious Townhall column today on his school’s (UNC-Wilmington) infatuation with “diversity.” It gets me wondering why other places where people gather don’t go berserk over groups…