Broadcast
Washington Journal for Saturday, October 13
Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 13, 2012 • C-SPAN
Interview of Stuart opposite ACLU lawyer Courtney Bowie on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” (starts a 1:33:00)
How Racial Preferences Hurt Minority Students
WSJ Live • October 12, 2012 • The Wall Street Journal
Video interview of Stuart by WSJ posted together with article.
How Does Affirmative Action Impact Colleges?
Richard Sander• October 9, 2012 • National Public Radio – All Things Considered
Robert Siegel talks to UCLA Law Professor and author Richard Sander about the impact on California’s education system when the state banned Affirmative Action.
MSNBC: Is affirmative action helping or hurting?
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 9, 2012 • MSNBC
Stuart and Rick on MSNBC’s “The Cycle”.
Time to End Affirmative Action? Fisher v. University of Texas
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 9, 2012 • Cato Institute
Video of Rick, Stuart and others on Cato Institute panel (shown on C-SPAN; this is Cato’s own video)
Affirmative Action At The High Court
Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 9, 2012 • National Public Radio – On Point
Stuart on NPR’s “On Point: Affirmative Action At The High Court” (debate starts at 8 mins 24 secs)
Affirmative Action: Blessing or Burden?
Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 9, 2012 • Fox Business – Don Imus
Stuff by Others
A Failed Policy
by Abigail Thernstrom & Stephan Thernstrom • November 12, 2012 • National Review Online
The moral arguments against racial preferences in higher education — racial double standards in admissions — have been made once too often. They’re powerful, but we all know them inside out: Affirmative action violates the central principle that all of us should be treated not as members of racial groups, but as individuals, judged by the content of our character.
A Harvard Man’s Critique of Affirmative Action
by Michael Kinsley • October 31, 2012 • Bloomberg
Michael Kinsley’s thoughts on Mismatch.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Mismatch’
by Robert VerBruggen • October 29, 2012 • The Washington Times
Conservatives are always looking for their holy grail of social science: empirical proof that liberal policies do more harm than good. If Charles Murray was right in “Losing Ground” and welfare actually makes the poor worse off, the debate is over — no one wants to do that.
The Hidden Campus Crisis: Placing unprepared students in challenging academic environments derails their lives and careers
by Trevor Butterworth • October 24, 2012 • The Wall Street Journal
Few issues at the crossroads of constitutional law and policy are quite as fraught with cultural and racial tension as affirmative action, which is why it is important to stress that “Mismatch” isn’t about intelligence or IQ or even, in a sense, academic ability; it is about academic preparation, the Achilles’ heel of American education.
Ask the author: Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. on Mismatch
Kali Borkoski with Stuart Taylor, Jr and Richard Sander • October 16, 2012 • SCOTUSblog
Stuart and Richard answer questions about Mismatch from SCOTUSblog’s Kali Borkoski.
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It
Publisher’s Weekly Staff • October 15, 2012 • Publisher’s Weekly
Publisher’s Weekly review of Mismatch.
Another Reason to End Preferences
by Terry Eastland • October 15, 2012 • The Weekly Standard
Affirmative action also hurts the ‘beneficiaries.’
A ‘Magisterial’ Work on Affirmative Action
by John S. Rosenberg • October 11, 2012 • Minding The Campus
John Rosenberg writes about the book.
A Death Knell for Affirmative Action?
by Roger Clegg • October 11, 2012 • The New York Post
Roger Clegg, “A Death Knell for Affirmative Action,” New York Post
An Affirmative Action Solution Even Conservatives Should Love
by Jeffrey Rosen • October 10, 2012 • The New Republic
Jeffrey Rosen, “An Affirmative Action Solution Even Conservatives Should Love,” The New Republic
Race to the Flop—The Problem with Affirmative Action
by Richard D. Kahlenberg • October 10, 2012 • The New Republic
Richard Kahlenberg, Race to the Flop—The Problem with Affirmative Action, The New Republic
Impromptus
Jay Nordlinger • October 10, 2012 • National Review Online
Jay Nordlinger writes about the book.
Preferences? What Preferences?
by Clarence Page • October 10, 2012 • Chicago Tribune
Essay by Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Clarence Page (pay-walled).
Is Affirmative Action Hurting the Students It’s Meant to Help?
Shane Harris, with Stuart Taylor, Jr. and Richard Sandler • October 9, 2012 • Washingtonian
Stuart Taylor, Jr and Richard Sandler sit down with Shane Harris to discuss Mismatch
Stuff by Us
The Unraveling of Affirmative Action
by Richard Sandler and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 13, 2012 • The Wall Street Journal
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., “The Unraveling of Affirmative Action: Racial preferences spring from worthy intentions, but they have had unintended consequences—including an academic mismatch in many cases between minority students and the schools to which they are admitted. There’s a better way to help the disadvantaged,” Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2012.
Why Affirmative Action Has Failed
by Stuart Taylor, Jr and Richard Sandler • October 30, 2012 • New York Daily News
This new evidence makes three points: First, racial preferences are exposing many or most of their supposed beneficiaries to a serious risk of academic struggle. Second, university leaders are systematically misleading these black and Hispanic recruits (and everyone else) about their academic prospects. Third, most of these preferred students are more affluent than many of the better-qualified Asians and whites who are disfavored on account of race.
Why Size Matters in College Preferences
By Stuart Taylor, Jr. and Richard Sander • October 16, 2012 • Minding The Campus
Even for people who approve in principle of some use of racial preferences in university admissions – notably including Justice Anthony Kennedy – the size of the preferences, and of the resulting racial gaps in academic performance in college and beyond, should matter a great deal.
Keep Affirmative Action but Reform it
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 11, 2012 • CNN Online
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., “Keep Affirmative Action But Reform It,” CNN.com0
Opposing view: ‘Racial balancing’ ignores inequalities
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 10, 2012 • USA Today
Colleges and universities shamefully neglect socioeconomic diversity and aggravate economic inequality.
Why the Court Wants to Try Again
by Richard Sandler and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 9, 2012 •The Washington Post
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument next week in Fisher v. University of Texas, the high court’s first case on the use of race in higher education admissions since its 2003 decisions in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. Why did the court decide to revisit this issue after less than a decade?
Online Fisher symposium: A path to radical reform of racial preferences without banning them
by Richard Sandler and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 9, 2012 • SCOTUS Blog
We offer three observations for this symposium: first, some thoughts on how Fisher can reform Grutter; second, observations on the social science offered in this case; and third, a comment on the broader issues, and proper path for reform, in the Court’s longer-term jurisprudence on affirmative action.
Do Race Preferences Help Students?
by Richard Sandler and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 7, 2012 • Los Angeles Times
There’s evidence that many students don’t thrive in colleges for which they’re far less prepared than their fellow students.
The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action
by Richard Sandler and Stuart Taylor, Jr. • October 2, 2012 • The Atlantic
Why racial preferences in college admissions hurt minority students — and shroud the education system in dishonesty.