Two good items of note today, and one bad.

NRO’s own John Fund has an excellent article on smashing the bamboo curtain – that is, ending anti-Asian American discrimination in university admissions – here. And Professor Nicholas Rosenkranz has a fine post on an intriguing package deal for Congress, namely coupling immigration reform with, again, ending racial preferences (and not just in university admissions either).

On the other hand, there is a bad article on faculty “diversity” efforts in Inside Higher Ed. And here’s my posted response:

This is really an appalling article. There is no discussion of the fact that it is almost always illegal to hire and promote with an eye on race, ethnicity, and sex. And there is very little discussion of why the principle of nondiscrimination should be subordinated here in order to achieve a predetermined racial and ethnic and gender mix. The fact that such an article could be written, edited, and published without these fundamental issues being addressed shows how entrenched but mindless the “celebration of diversity” has become. See this link (and the articles cited in it) for more on why this is wrong and illegal. I hope that those on university hiring committees will, as the link discusses, “push back.”