Renu Mukherjee examines the changing demographics of America’s top universities since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to eliminate affirmative action. Writing in City Journal, Mukherjee explains how the old policy did nothing to fix racial disparities, and recommends future efforts focus on bolstering the quality of elementary and secondary schools in black and Latino areas so those students can “gain admission on the basis of merit.”
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
