Stewart Baker in Reason details how a quiet bipartisan “privacy” bill aims to upend the United States Supreme Court’s prohibition of race-based university admissions. Recently introduced as the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), the bill suggests using a “disparate impact” test that, by its nature, finds discriminatory disparities everywhere, in turn justifying racial and gender quotas.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.