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Harvard caught in Victim Vise

Clifford A. Brown By Clifford A. Brown
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Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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Haaah-vahd is caught in a virtuous victims vise, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving center of intersectional grievance mongers. For the past year, Harvard has been slowly bled by allegations and then ugly revelations about their administration’s racial problem with Asians. Now, Harvard is being sued for profiting today from the racist Harvard […]
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We Caused the College Crisis

ViktorVaughn By ViktorVaughn
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Looking at this college admissions scandal, it is easy to blame the guy running the scheme, as well as the celebrity faces, for driving up the cost of secondary education. The problem goes much further back than that… Growing up, my parents always said “just go to college, get a degree, and you’ll always have […]
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Commentary Magazine Podcast

Meritocracy on Trial

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Hosted by Abe Greenwald, John Podhoretz, Noah Rothman

The college admissions scandal that captured the nation’s attention has sharpened the critiques of American institutions dedicated to social mobility. When do they succeed, and how have the failed? Also, Beto mania is sweeping… the press. Does the former congressman from Texas have a constituency outside center-left political media?

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Admissions Committee Meeting

JosePluma By JosePluma
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Chairman Megrim: We’re down to the last four candidates for our final slot in the class of 2023. Professor Melena?

Professor Melena: Dennis Whitehead. Fifth in his class at Quincy High School, 1440 on his SAT, swims and plays water polo, Eagle Scout, plays guitar for the school jazz quartet and has his own band, volunteers at…

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Justice Dept Criticizes Harvard for Being Anti-Asian American. That’s good…but……

BigDumbJerk By BigDumbJerk
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According to this article, the Justice Department is criticizing Harvard for using race as a deciding factor in not offering admittance to south- and east-Asians (full disclosure: by father is mostly Indian & Chinese, among other races / ethnicities). We’ve known for years that colleges & universities have been doing this, since these non-white students […]
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Help! My Son Thinks Hillsdale Is Boring

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My son, a high school senior, is mulling his college choices. It’s really come down to two schools: Hillsdale and the University of Michigan. The former is my choice; the latter is his choice. (He can likely get admitted to either place.) He doesn’t object to Hillsdale, exactly. Politically and culturally, he’d fit right in. […]
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Why Yale Students Aren’t Ideologically Diverse

Paula Lynn Johnson By Paula Lynn Johnson
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Born and raised in California and now living in New Jersey, where Only The Strong Survive. You can find me on Medium.com, where I am non-political. I self-published a YA novel and essay collection on Amazon, and feed my unhealthy obsession with antique photography at societyofghosts.tumblr.com.
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Screen Shot 2016-02-10 at 8.54.07 AMThe New York Post has been giving Ed Boland a lot of press recently in advance of his soon-to-be-released book, The Battle for Room 314. The promotion began with an article headlined with typical Post subtlety, “My Year of Terror and Abuse Teaching at a NYC High School.” Reporter Maureen Callahan introduces her subject:

In 2008, Ed Boland, a well-off New Yorker who had spent 20 years as an executive at a nonprofit, had a midlife epiphany: He should leave his white-glove world, the galas at the Waldorf and drinks at the Yale Club, and go work with the city’s neediest children.

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The Solution to Harvard’s Race Problem

Quinn the Eskimo By Quinn the Eskimo
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Long before I was born, my father was off in the Peace Corps far away. During his tenure, he was adopted by a tribal chief. Many years later, when I was applying to colleges, my mother suggested that I use the tribal identity as my own to get a leg up. I didn’t and my […]
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