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  • Affirmative Action Is Obsolete

    Affirmative action, as practiced in America’s most reputable universities, has outlived its utility. It emerged in U.S. social policy with John F. Kennedy’s 1961 executive order declaring that affirmative action would help ensure federal job applicants “are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.”…

  • The Antidote To The Sino-American Trade Conflict

    For most of human history all but a sliver of the populace scraped by on a meager income below the current International Poverty Line of just $1.90. Not until the Enlightenment in the West did global wealth experience a significant, sustained increase over time. Not coincidentally, the interval since the Enlightenment has also been the…

  • An Interview with Provost Thorp

    BY NAHUEL FEFER Nahuel: Provost Holden Thorp, former chancellor of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill assumed his position as Washington University’s chief academic officer nearly a year ago on July 1, 2013. Provost Thorpe, thank you so much for speaking with me today. How would you say your first year has been going thus…

  • The Modern Puppet State

    BY ARI MOSES It is early February and trash and scorched rubble are littered throughout the street. The clock strikes nine as the sun begins its journey across the sky, but Kiev’s once bustling city streets look as if they are from a ghost town, a mere remnant of their former selves. Offices, schools, and…