On the Scene: Fear and Loathing at City College

New York ANOTHER ONE of those racial controversies, tedious yet inflammatory, in which New York seems to specialize, has come to favor us—not, this time, from an outer-borough street, but from the campus of City College.

Michael Levin began teaching philosophy at City College in 1969. During the Seventies, he has told interviewers, he became “sick and tired” of affirmative action. City College, a once-quality institution reeling from the impact of open admissions, was certainly a good place to get sick and tired of it, and Professor Levin went on the attack.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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New York ANOTHER ONE of those racial controversies, tedious yet inflammatory, in which New York seems to specialize, has come to favor us—not, this time, from an outer-borough street, but from the campus of City College.

Michael Levin began teaching philosophy at City College in 1969. During the Seventies, he has told interviewers, he became “sick and tired” of affirmative action. City College, a once-quality institution reeling from the impact of open admissions, was certainly a good place to get sick and tired of it, and Professor Levin went on the attack.