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Friday, August 29, 2003


I Pledge Allegiance to Diversity, and to Multiculturalism, for Which it Stands
Speaking of the essay questions required by the University of Michigan's new "diversity-based" admissions program (see yesterday's posts), Roger Clegg nails it. He tells the Free Press "I'm afraid this is going to amount to a requirement that a student either write an essay that talks about how he has the right skin color, or that he write an essay that amounts to a pledge of allegiance to diversity."

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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