November 6, 2022 7:53 am

The Lunacy of U.S. Racial Categories

University administrators are bad and incompetent racialists.

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Demonstrators gather in support of affirmative action as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether colleges may continue to use race as a factor in student admissions at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., October 31, 2022.

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It’s not just that colleges and universities discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin. They do it badly.

This is one of the themes that emerged in the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative-action cases last week.

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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It’s not just that colleges and universities discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin. They do it badly.

This is one of the themes that emerged in the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative-action cases last week.