The Supreme Court announced on Feb. 21 that it will hear an appeal from a white student challenging the race-based affirmative action policy in the University of Texas, signaling a possible legal change for the use of race in college admission, which dates from its 1978 ruling in University of California v. Bakke. Meanwhile, the […]
Siyu Hu
Siyu Hu is an intern at the Washington Monthly.
Posted inPolitics
A Virtuous Reading Note to Coming Apart
Charles Murray, author of Loosing Ground, a declaration against welfare, and Bell Curve, a book that invoked racial controversies, is back. In his new book, Coming Apart, he proposes that four fundamental virtues (industriousness, honesty, marriage, and religiosity) now divide the upper class from the lower class in serious ways. His upper class is defined […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
A Checklist Can Go A Long Way
Over the weekend, Onward State, the student blog of Penn State University, made a mistake that it will never forget. It is a mistake that all newsrooms make: reporting a story incorrectly. While it is impossible to get it right every time, a checklist that tells reporters what to do in a breaking news situation […]
