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Discriminating Among Discriminations

Jesse Walker | 4.6.2005 10:44 AM

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At Northeastern Illinois University, you can't charge different prices to different races at a Republican-sponsored "affirmative action bake sale," but you can charge different prices to different sexes at a feminist-sponsored "pay equity bake sale."

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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