Are we facing the end of racial preferences in America? Mr. Clegg thinks we probably are, and examines the role demographics, law, attraction, and vision may play in their demise. What makes preferences still attractive to so many people? Do most Americans share a vision that includes the continued use of racial preferences? Mr. Clegg offers a…

In his keynote address at "Race and Gender Preferences at the Crossroads," a January 2008 conference organized by the California Association of Scholars, Ward Connerly confidently asserts that the era of explicit race preferences will soon be "deader than a doornail." However, it is up to those who remember (in the words of John F. Kennedy) that…

Race preferences and the postmodern version of multiculturalism have always triggered opposition in academia, but it has seldom come from the political left. Now things are changing. Growing unease in the academic "priesthood" over preferences and multiculturalism may herald their end. Longstanding opponents of racial discrimination and identity…

George W. Bush did signal his views on diversity during his campaign for the presidency, but what he said inexplicably aroused little notice. Campaigning in Miami on 25 August 2000, in a speech devoted to U.S.-Latin American relations, Bush presented a view of America that one would never have thought to hear from the lips of a U.S. presidential…

To spell out, as Michael Krauss does here, the University of Michigan's contorted reasoning behind its successful bid to discriminate by race in the name of diversity is to expose the logical shambles of the "Grutter" decision. Not only does the ruling smack of incompetence, but Professor Krauss cites procedural shenanigans in the 6th Circuit that…