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When does corrective policy become its own injustice?: Sunset realists
The question nobody asked Every corrective policy carries an implicit promise that it is temporary. Affirmative action was framed as remedy, not regime. Justice O’Connor in Grutter predicted it would be unnecessary in twenty-five years. That was 2003.... When does corrective policy become its own injustice?: Corrective justice
What the numbers did In 1960, Black students made up 1.7 percent of selective college enrollment. Not because they couldn’t do the work — HBCUs had been producing scholars for a century. Because the institutions wouldn’t let them in.... When does corrective policy become its own injustice?: The Story
The sorting room Harvard litigated Bakke, Grutter, and Students for Fair Admissions all the way to the Supreme Court. It lost 6-3 on June 29, 2023. In the trial record was a fact the university never explained: Asian American applicants had received systematically lower "personal...