PUNTING ON RACE PREFERENCES

Am I an extremist to be disappointed that SCOTUS didn’t just strike down both Michigan Law School’s racist entrance policies and the undergraduate admissions scheme? In terms of what might happen to the racial make-up in higher education, perhaps I am. But I still don’t believe that discrimination as a means is justified by diversity as an end. And I think that kind of squeamishness is integral to liberalism as a political philosophy. It’s part of the long American story: how race has always been the greatest solvent for political liberalism; and still is.