Chris Rufo, hero of the counterattack against DEI, has struck again, outing another black female DEI professor, Harvard’s Christina Cross [Email her/Tweet her], pictured right: Rufo goes into (appropriate) excruciating detail about this accusation. He then asks …what is happening at Harvard? We ha
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I'm not sure what the etiquette is for a podcaster borrowing clips from another podcaster, but here's where I shall find out. The other podcaster I'm going to plagiarize here is Richard Hanania, whose book The Origins of Woke came out last year to...
Read MoreNot a few people have noted that the impressive speed with which Black Harvard President Claudine Gay’s academic reputation has been nuked since she irritated the Israel Lobby. Being able to produce all this obscure information so quickly strongly suggests it had been stockpiled. Which in turn raises the question: upon who else have files...
Read More[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Can I call 'em, or what? Yes, folks: You heard it here first. On November 10th, seven weeks ago, I wrote: Reading the news about our universities taking the side of Hamas after October 7th, I was a bit surprised to see that the...
Read MoreEarlier by Carl Horowitz: Law Schools And The American Bar Association: A Communist Partnership For Dismantling America Black Harvard President Claudine Gay was reportedly the Republicans’ top target in Tuesday’s House hearing on campus antisemitism [5 takeaways from college antisemitism hearing, by Bianca Quilantan, Politico, December 5, 2023]. This criticism must have been a rude...
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Earlier: The ATLANTIC Wants To Cancel Richard Hanania's THE ORIGINS OF WOKE The Race Denialists are at it again. Black academic Tyler Austin Harper [Email him] (right) has attacked Richard Hanania’s new book The Origins of Woke as an “intellectual and moral failure,” in part because it has highlighted black-white differences in IQ [An Intellectual...
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The Supreme Court’s recent Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard decision striking down racial preferences at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, exposed how the admission process has become politicized. But will the Court’s decision end the role of politics in college admissions? The answer is “no” even if Affirmative Action vanishes....
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] A few days ago, I had the delightful and instructive experience of sitting down to dinner with Charles Murray, whose latest book, Facing Reality came out just two years ago. The "reality" in the title is reality about race differences, most particularly differences in...
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Earlier: ADJUSTING TO THE POST-AMERICAN AGE—James Kirkpatrick’s Address To The First VDARE Conference This is James Kirkpatrick’s speech to the Second VDARE Castle Conference. I’m James Kirkpatrick, a long-time contributor to VDARE.com. And I'm the host of the VDARE Book Club. You've all heard the saying, if youth only knew, if age only could. I...
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Sometime very soon—perhaps as you are hearing or reading this—the U.S. Supreme Court will, in the last month of its judicial term, bring forth a ruling on the constitutionality of Affirmative Action in college admissions. This ruling will be the final act in the...
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You have to feel sorry, sort of, for GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott, the black senator from South Carolina who was Affirmatively Acted into the Senate by the appalling Nicky Haley in 2013 to replace Jim Demint: his announcement last week was completely stepped on by Ron DeSantis. But Scott boasts the support of many...
Read MoreEarlier (2015) Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Train Crashes? Our Ruling Class’s response to Norfolk Southern’ s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, was unsurprising given that it is uninterested in safety if it interferes with the Woke project of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE. Wokesters call it DEI for some reason). But the disaster is...
Read MoreEarlier, by Peter Brimelow (Forbes, 1993): When Quotas Replace Merit, Everybody Suffers [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Monday this week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases concerning Affirmative Action in college admissions. The plaintiff in the case is a nonprofit called Students For Fair Admissions,...
Read MoreSee also Masters Attacks Affirmative Action—Makes The Move That Could Win College-Educated Whites Back To GOP An Affirmative Action case before the U.S. Supreme Court has returned this issue—so critical to white success in higher education—to the political discussion. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, which incorporated the same...
Read MoreArizona Senate candidate Blake Masters has a new campaign pitch: End Affirmative Action. He tossed this issue into the race after he was attacked for mocking the federal government’s strategy to tackle inflation with more diversity at the Federal Reserve. Instead of backing down or apologizing, he punched back even harder. Maybe he knows something...
Read MoreSee also: Women Are Taking Over Medicine—Not Necessarily Good For Them, Or Their Patients Eight years ago, as I prepared to retire from medical practice, health care was under assault. A federally-mandated computerized medical record had complicated charting patients and added hours of daily unproductive work for hospital staff, with no improvement in the quality...
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Earlier by Nicholas Stix: Yes, Virginia (Dare), Black Supremacism Really Is A Thing We live in a world of anti-white hatred for myriad reasons, including the now-sacramentalized anti-white “Civil Rights Movement.” But yet another reason is the anti-white Mainstream Media and its black Leftist satellites, such as the viciously anti-white, Official Black Voice, The Root....
Read MoreAs the U.S. prepares to confirm to the Supreme Court a black woman who cannot define the word “woman” [Blackburn to Jackson: Can you define ‘the word woman’?, by Myah Ward, Politico, March 22, 2022], we are reminded of the fact that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated because she is a black woman, not...
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Earlier: A Talk Radio Listener Comments On Ketanji Brown Jackson's Qualifications—And Unknown LSAT Scores The Senate Judiciary Committee, as I'm sure you know, has been holding confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the president's nominee to replace retiring justice Stephen Breyer in October. I can't say I've followed the hearings closely…or at all, really....
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The Regime Media is upset that the U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a case challenging Affirmative Action in college admissions [The Supreme Court adds affirmative action to its potential hit list, by Nina Totenberg, NPR, January 24, 2022]. And maybe it should be. In the famous case of Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall...
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I've been telling myself for twenty years that America’s ongoing Cultural Revolution couldn't get any worse. But year by year it has gotten worse. The Red Guards now control all our major media outlets, including of course Social Media, and the entire educational system, public and private, from kindergarten to the Ivy League. This new...
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier this year I read Christopher Caldwell's very striking book The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. Caldwell argued that the reforms of the 1960s, which seemed necessary and humane at the time to correct obvious injustices, had serious negative consequences, leading eventually...
Read MoreEarlier: Georgetown Law Prof Says She Feels Angst Over Low Performance Of Her Black Students, Gets Fired and Second Georgetown Law Prof Is Out. His Crime? Saying "Mmmhhhhhh" Eleven years ago I spoke at a conference organized by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. I gave them a...
Read More[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] I greeted my July 11th issue of The Economist magazine with mixed feelings: For a fleeting moment I thought the "new ideology" that The Economist was talking about might be honest race realism, and that what's wrong with it from The Economist's viewpoint, which...
Read MoreEarlier: Trump's Speech Hated By People Who Hate America and A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win President Trump made a start towards recasting the presidential race on July 4, but he needs to match his words with actions. The unhinged Main Stream Media response to what would have been considered patriotic banalities from any...
Read MoreSee, earlier, by James Fulford: Disparate Impact: Legal And Political Last week's item about jaywalkers in New York City brought in some emails. It referred to complaints that city cops issue jaywalking tickets disproportionately to Sun People, i.e. blacks and Latinos. Sun People are only 55 percent of New Yorkers, but they get 90 percent...
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See, earlier, The Fulford File, By James Fulford | Disparate Impact: Legal And Political A ripple of horror ran through the excruciatingly PC-compliant government of Baltimore County, Maryland last week after President Trump’s Justice Department filed a suit against the county for racial discrimination in the police department. Council member Wade Kach (R) [Email him]...
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The state of our military is a bit worrying. Those of us with family members serving have more to worry about than the average. I have no doubt our soldiers, sailors, and airmen will do their fighting best with any mission we assign them. But politicized leadership and stupid ideas about human nature may get...
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On Radio Derb recently I have been promoting a theme of “academic nationalism.” Higher education, I have argued, is a precious resource; and our own citizens should have first call on it. As I observed in the February 17th podcast: I enlarged on this theme March 17th, commenting on an article in The Economist’s bimonthly...
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Another week, another Executive Order on immigration, another effort by judges to block it. Like a great many of our other problems, this one is a result of gross stupidity on the part of our federal government in the recent past. Here I get to repeat one of my favorite apothegms: The most astonishing statistic...
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But Affirmative Action’s Real Damage Is To Whites, Asians, And America
Donald Trump has shifted the Overton Window, soaring to the top of the polls while championing issues the political class believed were off-limits. But even Trump seemed to side with the Left in deploring Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent remarks about Affirmative Action’s paradoxical negative impact on African-Americans. Of course, Scalia had an entirely reasonable point....
Read MoreAs if Donald Trump wasn’t doing enough to make goodwhite liberals sputter and swoon, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia set off another spasm of PC outrage on Wednesday last week. The Supremes were hearing oral arguments inFisher v. University of Texas You’ll recall that Abigail Fisher, a white lady, sued the University of Texas, claiming...
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A few days ago, I had the honor of sitting at a dinner gathering across the table from James Watson, the world’s greatest living geneticist, joint winner of theNobel Prize for discovering the structure of the DNA molecule. It was a private gathering so I’m not offering any specifics. But I can report that Dr....
Read MoreAsian American Activists Choke On Noodles
There is among us a poet, a middle-aged white guy named Michael Derrick Hudson. Mr. Hudson wrote a poem, title: “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve.” That’s the title. I shall refer to it as “The Bees, etc.” The poem itself isn’t much longer than its title: 178 words, organized...
Read MoreThe Schumer-Rubio Amnesty/ Immigration Surge Bill emerged from the Senate Judiciary committee May 21st. The full Senate will consider a motion to vote on the bill (after having first, of course, pondered a motion to vote on the motion to vote) next Monday, June 10th. So far as I can ascertain, neither the bill nor...
Read MoreForget the legalistic hieroglyphics in which Monday's Supreme Court decision upholding federally sanctioned anti-white admissions policies in American universities was wrapped. Look instead at whose interests the decision serves, and you will begin to grasp far more clearly why the Court belched forth this particular ruling. The obvious interests the decision serves are those of...
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