Federal Agencies Neglect Anti-Asian Discrimination in Education
My wife Alison Somin, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, outlines the problem.
Asian Americans
Affirmative Action Is Racist and Therefore Wrong
If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
My New Washington Examiner Article on the Supreme Court's Ruling on Racial Preferences in College Admissions
The article assesses strengths and weaknesses of the Court's decision, and what it will take to implement Chief Justice Roberts' admonition that "[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
How America's Growing Diversity Weakens the Case for Racial Preferences in Education
Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.
The Media and Politicians Keep Trying To Censor Things That Turn Out To Be True
The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
The Supreme Court Could End Affirmative Action
In the two cases, brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Civil Rights Act
Fourth Circuit Stays Trial Court Ruling Against Racial Balancing Policy Discriminating Against Asian Applicants to Prominent Virginia Public School
The stay may signal that the federal appellate court will ultimately uphold the school's policy.
First World Problems
Asian-American communities are full of stark divisions—including splits over whether to see themselves as "Asian Americans" in the first place.
Kenny Xu: The Growing Attacks on Asian American Excellence
The Inconvenient Minority author and head of Color Us United says it's time for the country to become truly colorblind.
Opposing Racism Doesn't Require Promoting Victimhood
The ideas put forward by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi are fundamentally "anti-black."
Senate Passes Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill That Doesn't Prohibit Discrimination in College Admissions
Plus: Biden proposes a massive tax hike, scientists may have invented a successful malaria vaccine, and more...
My "The Hill" Article About Anti-Asian Discrimination on Left and Right
The article shows how the left and right-wing versions of hostility to Asians have much in common.
Melissa Chen on Fighting Wokeness at Home and Radicalism Abroad
The journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher education, and Hollywood.
An Elite Public High School Changed Its Admissions Standards To Reduce the Asian-American Student Population
In the name of helping racial minorities, officials are adopting a plan that would boost whites at the expense of Asian Americans.
Melissa Chen: "Ideas Have Consequences. So Does Silence."
The Singapore-born journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher ed, and Hollywood.
Massage Parlor Massacre: 8 Killed in Atlanta, Media Speculate About Anti-Asian Motive
Plus: Columbus, Ohio, wants six months in jail for first-time sex customers, Texas' new social media bill is a mess, and more...
Important New Lawsuit Challenges Attempted Racial Balancing at Prominent Selective Virginia Public High School
The case could set an important precedent because it addresses facially neutral attempts at racial balancing, and because the school in question is currently over 70% Asian-American, and new policy seeks to reduce that percentage.
ICE Agents Fight Sex Trafficking by Paying Potential Victims for Hand Jobs
In "Operation Asian Touch," federal agents coerced suspected human-trafficking victims into sex acts. Local cops seized money and threw them in jail.
Stossel: End Racial Preferences at Colleges?
Asians sue Harvard for discrimination in a case that may end college racial preferences.
