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Affirmative Action: Towards a Coherent Debate
Coleman Hughes
Coleman Hughes is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal, where his writing focuses on race, public policy, and applied ethics. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The City Journal, and The Spectator. Hughes has appeared on many podcasts and also hosts his own, Conversations with Coleman. In 2019, he testified before the U.S. Congress about slavery reparations.

This November, the citizens of California will vote on a proposition to remove the following words from their state constitution: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

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Affirmative-Action Jurisprudence Reflects American Racial Animosity, but Is Also Unhappy in Its Own Special Way
Richard Thompson Ford
Richard Thompson Ford is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of the New York Times notable books The Race Card and Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality. He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of the Authors Guild Foundation.

He thanks Taiyee Chien for his editorial assistance and exceptional patience. 

What’s still interesting is that the affirmative-action wars reflect larger issues, such as the betrayed promise of the civil-rights legislation and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection as well as the dishonesty, denial, and dysfunction surrounding questions of racial justice more generally.

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