Peter Schmidt of The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. In it, he points out that the “diversity” rationale for university admission preferences based on race — that is, the claim that there are significant educational benefits from having a student body that conforms to politically correct racial and ethnic proportions — is (a) unsupported by credible evidence and (b) not really believed by the universities themselves, who have simply seized upon it as the only legal justification for their discrimination. He’s right, of course, and it takes guts for journalist with his beat to stand up and say so.