DEI and Multiracial Coalition
Today on TAP: Does redoubled commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion among the already liberal address the deeper problem of systemic racism? Does it backfire politically?
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Today on TAP: Does redoubled commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion among the already liberal address the deeper problem of systemic racism? Does it backfire politically?
The author of six books, including “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Interracial Intimacies, and For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action and the Law,” Harvard University Law School professor
On November 2nd, 2020, Brown professor of Economics and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Glenn Loury joined Harvard political theorist Michael Sandel’s course “Justice” to discuss the ethics of affirmative action in American higher education. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of that conversation. MICHAEL SANDEL: I wonder if I could begin with a provocative quotation from a lecture you’ve given. You’ve said that affirmative action is not about equality, it’s about “covering ass.” What did you mean by that and what do you think generally about the ethics of af...