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University Campus Radicalism: When Will It End?

6 days ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Rafael A. Mangual |Renu Mukherjee |Tal Fortgang

Charles Fain Lehman, Rafael Mangual, Renu Mukherjee, and Tal Fortgang discuss the latest Columbia University student protest, the Trump administration’s fight with Harvard, and highlights from the Manhattan Institute’s annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner. Audio TranscriptCharles Fain Lehman: Live from New York and the Paulson Media Room at the Manhattan Institute. This is the City Journal Podcast.
Religious Charter Schools: How Will Supreme Court Rule?

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Ilya Shapiro |Daniel Di Martino |Renu Mukherjee

Charles Fain Lehman, Ilya Shapiro, Daniel Di Martino, and Renu Mukherjee discuss the Supreme Court's consideration of a religious charter school in Oklahoma, Canada’s election, and staying entertained on public transit. Charles Fain Lehman: Welcome back to the City Journal Podcast. I’m your host Charles Fain Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal.
SCOTUS Denies Certiorari in School Admissions Case

Dec 11, 2024 | city-journal.org | Renu Mukherjee

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp.v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, a case that concerned the 2020–2022 admissions policy for Boston’s three selective public high schools. The policy, which aimed to reduce white and Asian enrollment in the name of “racial equity,” is yet another example of a school district engaging in racial balancing. Boston Latin School (BLS), Boston Latin Academy (BLA), and John D.
Asian Americans Inch Toward Trump

Nov 15, 2024 | city-journal.org | Renu Mukherjee

During MSNBC’s election night coverage, host Joy Reid, having just learned that Donald Trump had won the swing state of North Carolina, launched into a tirade against white women. “Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not,” said Reid. “This will be the second opportunity that white women have to change the way that they have to interact with the patriarchy,” she continued, referring to the 2016 presidential election.
Prop 1 Will Greenlight Anti-Asian Discrimination in New York

Nov 4, 2024 | manhattan.institute | Renu Mukherjee

The Equal Rights Amendment could allow the government to discriminate against Asian Americans and other racially disfavored groups. Tomorrow, New Yorkers will be asked to vote on Prop 1, the state Equal Rights Amendment. New Yorkers for Equal Rights, the Democrat-aligned group behind the measure, claims that the purpose of the amendment is to codify a right to abortion in the state constitution. But to state the obvious, abortion is not under threat in liberal New York.
No on Proposition 1

Nov 4, 2024 | city-journal.org | Renu Mukherjee

On November 5, New Yorkers will be asked to vote on Proposition 1, the New York Equal Rights Amendment. New Yorkers for Equal Rights, a progressive group supporting the measure, claims that the purpose of the amendment is to codify a right to abortion in the state constitution. But to state the obvious, abortion is not under threat in liberal New York. And Prop. 1 does not even include the word “abortion” anywhere in its language.
Out of Many, One

Oct 26, 2024 | city-journal.org | Renu Mukherjee

Last May, when Donald Trump held a campaign rally at Crotona Park in the South Bronx, he became the first Republican to visit the New York neighborhood for a national campaign event in 40 years. The neighborhood’s congressional district, NY-15, has long been a Democratic stronghold, with a Partisan Voting Index score of D+35 from the Cook Political Report.
Yale Needs a President to Hold It Accountable

Sep 25, 2024 | manhattan.institute | Renu Mukherjee

What’s to keep universities from ignoring the nation’s highest court on racial preferences? Students for Fair Admissions president Edward Blum threatened Yale with a lawsuit on Tuesday for discriminating against Asian-American applicants (“Racial Preferences on the Sly?” Review & Outlook, Sept. 18). Yale’s class of 2028, the first group admitted since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action last year, is 24% Asian, down 6 percentage points from the class of 2027.
Affirmative Action Doesn’t Work, and MIT Knows It

Sep 23, 2024 | city-journal.org | Renu Mukherjee

Several highly selective colleges and universities in the U.S.—including MIT, Yale, Princeton, and now Harvard—have finally revealed the racial makeup of their incoming freshmen, the Class of 2028. This is the first group to be admitted since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA), last year.
White Guilt Is Out of Date

Aug 16, 2024 | city-journal.org | Renu Mukherjee

Four years ago, Joe Biden, then the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for the 2020 presidential election, promised to select a black woman as his running mate. He settled on Kamala Harris, a senator from California and the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.