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Twenty-five years ago, in an episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” television series titled “Affirmative Action,” the comedian’s friend Richard Lewis introduces him to Dr. Grambs, a Black ...

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Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Jason Riley about his new book. One reason it took so long for the Supreme Court to ban the consideration of race in university admissions, which it ...

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Jason Riley about his new book. Derrick Bell is best known for his contributions to critical race theory—which claims that racism is embedded in ...

When the Supreme Court, in 2023, banned the use of racial preferences in university admissions, observers expected the number of black and Hispanic freshmen on elite campuses to fall and the number of ...

Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. I hear the outrage: What! These conservatives spend years in combat against affirmative action, accusing it of ills ...

Enrollment data for the first round of college students affected by the outlawing of affirmative action has been slowly disseminating over the past few weeks. As academia reckons with the impact of ...

Dramatic structure serves as the backbone of storytelling, shaping narratives in plays, films, and literature. This framework guides the pacing, character arcs, and resolution, crafting stories that ...