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AFFIRMATIVE  ACTION  ISSUES

ELECTRONIC  MEDIA
“How Affirmative Action Actually HURTS Those It Intends to Help,” Jason Riley interviewed by Megyn Kelly, on The Megyn Kelly Show

The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed by Jason L. Riley (Audiobook, Kindle) 

“Around the World in 80 Ways: Affirmative Action Around the World”: Thomas Sowell interviewed on Uncommon Knowledge by Peter Robinson (Web Series)
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)

“The Perversity of Diversity,” Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012, by Thomas Sowell

Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It by Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. (eTextbook) 
“The Cost of America’s Cultural Revolution,” Keynote Address at the National Association of Scholars, by Heather Mac Donald
“Academic Standards in Medical Schools,” The New England Journal of Medicine, May 13, 1976, pp. 1118–1119, by Bernard D. Davis
“The Fall of an Affirmative Action Hero,” Wall Street Journal, August 27, 1997, p. A12, by Mark Lasswell, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
“Commentary: The Disease as Cure,” Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 1979, Issue 1, pp. 147–157, by Antonin Scalia
“Preferential Admissions: An Unreal Solution to a Real Problem,” University of Toledo Law Review, Spring/Summer 1970, pp. 377–402, by Clyde W. Summers, available via the HeinOnline Law Journal Library
“Affirmative Action,” (within Chapter 5) Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“The Next Battle Over Racial Preferences,” City Journal, Autumn 2023, by Renu Mukherjee

ESSAYS,  ARTICLES  AND  CHAPTERS
“‘Affirmative Action’: A Worldwide Disaster,” Commentary, December 1989, pp. 21–41, by Thomas Sowell
“The Perversity of Diversity,” Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012, pp. 76–78, by Thomas Sowell
“Academic Standards in Medical Schools,” The New England Journal of Medicine, May 13, 1976, pp. 1118–1119, by Bernard D. Davis
“The Fall of an Affirmative Action Hero,” Wall Street Journal, August 27, 1997, p. A12, by Mark Lasswell
“Commentary: The Disease as Cure,” Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 1979, Issue 1, pp. 147–157, by Antonin Scalia 
“Preferential Admissions: An Unreal Solution to a Real Problem,” University of Toledo Law Review, Spring/Summer 1970, pp. 377–402, by Clyde W. Summers
“Affirmative Action,” Social Justice Fallacies, pp. 115–127, by Thomas Sowell
“The Next Battle Over Racial Preferences,” City Journal, Autumn 2023, pp. 62–67, by Renu Mukherjee
BOOKS  AND  MONOGRAPHS
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It by Richard H. Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Affirmative Action Around the World by Thomas Sowell
Affirmative Action Reconsidered: Was It Necessary in Academia? by Thomas Sowell
When Race Trumps Merit by Heather Mac Donald
Ethnicity and Equality: The Shiv Sena Party and Preferential Policies in Bombay by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India by Marc Galanter
“Affirmative Action Policies: India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,” Ethnic Studies Report, Volume XV, Number 2 (July 1997), published in Sri Lanka
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