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Barack Obama has run a campaign promising to extricate America from its tangled racial problems. He has only exacerbated them.
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June 2008 |
Linda Chavez |
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Current policies are untenable, but not for the reasons trumpeted by the growing ranks of restrictionists.
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July/August 2006 |
Linda Chavez |
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If the barriers to cultural assimilation are formidable (and they are), the fault is our own.
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June 1998 |
Linda Chavez |
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For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to which designated minority groups receive special advantages in employment and education. Prominent intellectuals address questions on affirmative action. What is the nature of affirmative action? How would you weigh its costs and advantages? Is the policy on its way out?
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March 1998 |
William J. Bennett, Linda Chavez, Carl Cohen, Midge Decter and Terry Eastland |
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May 1997 |
Reviewed by Linda Chavez |
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To commemorate Commentary's fiftieth anniversary, the editors addressed the following statement and questions to a group of American intellectuals:
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November 1995 |
Elliott Abrams, Joseph Adelson, Robert L. Bartley, Arnold Beichman and William J. Bennett |
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Despite overwhelming opposition from the media, from leaders of the religious and civil-rights communities, from the education establishment, and even from prominent conservatives like Jack Kemp and William J. Bennett, California voters last fall enthusiastically adopted Proposition 187, which bars illegal aliens from receiving welfare, education, or health benefits except for emergency medical treatment.
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March 1995 |
Linda Chavez |
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President Clinton's decision last June to withdraw the nomination of Lani Guinier as head of the Justice Department's civil-rights division averted a public debate in which his administration would inevitably have been depicted as championing racial quotas for elected officials.
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June 1994 |
Reviewed by Linda Chavez |
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Assimilation has become a dirty word in American politics, invoking images of people, cultures, traditions forged into a colorless alloy in an indifferent melting pot.
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October 1991 |
Linda Chavez |
