By CHRIS POWELL It shouldn’t be shocking that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Yale University in New Haven for illegal racial discrimination in its admissions practices. Higher education long has been discriminating that way for years and helped concoct a euphemism for it — “affirmative action” — a euphemism that fortunately no longer intimidatesContinue reading “Legislators try blackmailing Yale to save discriminatory admissions”
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Patronage for higher education is one-sided campaign financing
By Chris Powell Even people skeptical of the bloat of the federal government may not have fully appreciated its discretionary political patronage until, upon his return to the presidency in January, Donald Trump began to reduce it. Who outside the universities themselves knew that Columbia University has been getting more than a billion dollars aContinue reading “Patronage for higher education is one-sided campaign financing”
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