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Affirmative Action in the Year 3000?

Well, I hope not. In today’s New York Times, Ross Douhat compares Justice O’Connor’s “expectation” that the need for affirmative action will fade within the next generation with soon-to-be Justice Sotomayor’s “hope” that the end is near for such preferences:
“O’Connor didn’t hope; she expected. And Sotomayor’s record suggests that there’s a considerable difference between these [...]

Posted by: John Culhane on Monday, July 20th, 2009