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Calvin Coolidge, David Brooks and the Limits of "Meritocracy"
• August 5, 2023
• 1,500 Words • 103 Comments • Reply
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Last week, Mrs. Derbyshire and I attended the centenary celebration in Vermont of the ascent to the Presidency, in the early morning hours of August 3rd, 1923, of Calvin Coolidge, who subsequently went on to sign the 1924 Immigration Act, the moratorium model for... Read More
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"Nobody Wants An 0.76 Percent Black Harvard. the Oceans Would Boil, the Earth Would Crash Into the Sun."
• June 30, 2023
• 1,500 Words • 246 Comments • Reply
[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... Read More
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WAITING for SCOTUS: It’s Obvious the Ivies Discriminate Against Asians. Do They Also Discriminate In Favor of Jews?
• June 19, 2023
• 1,600 Words • 136 Comments • Reply
[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... Read More
Principal Ann Bonitatibus’ War On Merit
• January 7, 2023
• 1,100 Words • 40 Comments • Reply
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] In my November Diary here at VDARE.com I led off with the heading "Dismantling the meritocracy." I noted how big licensing associations for important professions—the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Bar Association—were de-prioritizing merit in selecting entrants to their professions in... Read More
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Could SCOTUS be About to Restore Freedom of Association—Including for (Ahem) Whites?
• January 24, 2022
• 1,800 Words • 86 Comments • Reply
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... Read More
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We Should be Talking About Meritocracy’s Problems, But New York’s de Blasio Just Wants to Destroy the Whole Thing
• June 17, 2018
• 1,400 Words • 125 Comments • Reply
I got a bit carried away with congressional maneuvering over immigration issues last week, leaving myself no time for other topics in the news. Here's one of those topics: the assault on meritocracy. Now, the whole issue of meritocracy is problematic. It needs some serious thought and public discussion, but isn't getting much of either.... Read More
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Ryan Zinke Was Right (Even If He Cucked): Meritocracy and Diversitocracy Incompatible
• April 1, 2018
• 900 Words • 18 Comments • Reply
Recently, I chewed over the concept of meritocracy some , by way of commemorating Michael Young’s introduction of the word fifty years ago this year. Well, meritocracy’s been in the news again last week. On Tuesday CNN reported that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has said that in personnel matters, he will not focus... Read More
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Of Course Harvard Discriminates Against Asians
But Maybe That’s Good For Americans?
• December 5, 2017
• 1,300 Words • 833 Comments • Reply
There hasn’t been a whole lot of news about the Department of Justice investigation of Harvard University since I last mentioned the issue back in August. To refresh your memory: the DOJ was responding to a complaint from a coalition of Asian-American groups that their people, Asian-Americans, are discriminated against by Harvard admissions officers. Back... Read More
Whining Asian-Americans and the Pretty Lies of the Ruling Class
• October 18, 2015
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Fifteen years ago — fifteen blessed years, readers— I wrote a piece titled “The Whining Minority.” That was at the time of the Wen Ho Lee brouhaha, for those who remember it, and the minority I was writing about was Americans of Chinese descent. Permit me to quote myself from the yellowing parchment of September... Read More
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