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Thursday, April 4, 2013

The End of Affirmative Action as We Know it? (And I Feel Ambivalent)

This Spring the Supreme Court will rule on two affirmative action cases that may end affirmative action as we know it. For those of us unabashedly liberal professorial types committed to increasing diversity on college campuses and reducing inequality in our educational system, this may in fact be a moment of great opportunity, as I argue at The New Republic. 

In the classroom as in the courts: never waste a crisis!