I argued in my previous article that to increase the supply of quality black professional candidates, the focus should be on high-quality education, not equity. Specifically, the black community needs to improve the black college graduation rate, which will first…

This month, the student newspaper of the University of Michigan released the results of its annual “sex survey.” It revealed a shocking result: Nearly half of biological women in the survey, which included 2,866 respondents, identify as LGBTQ. Of the…

One of the stronger arguments for public support of universities is that the creation of new knowledge improves the quality of our lives. In the early 1950s, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, Jonas Salk, discovered a vaccine that…

John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Ford Motor Company, and other major corporations are backtracking on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and returning to hiring based on merit. Thus, instead of a misguided equity approach, the focus should be increasing the supply…

Until recently, the biggest challenge facing education reformers was persuading local politicians in states with powerful teacher unions to legalize what has come to be known as “school choice” — the public subsidy of multiple K-12th grade learning options. For…

Over the past year, Americans have increasingly turned against DEI. The tipping point came when DEI proved to enable antisemitism on university campuses. This unleashed a wave of pent-up frustration over DEI’s enforcement of progressive conformity, prioritization of race over…

Unlike some other New York college professors who cancelled classes the day after our election, my students had a unique opportunity to celebrate democracy and the system of government created by the Framers of our Constitution in 1787. Another Barnard…