From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Steve SailerMarch 13, 2024
Why is Trump ahead in the polls over Biden, even though several traditional measures of electoral viability suggest the incumbent should be in good shape? For example, the Dow Jones average was over 38,000 on Monday. I can recall when Dow 36,000 was considered an ironic joke.
A fairly sensible reason that Biden is in trouble is that he is seen as representing the Establishment. And the Establishment discredited itself in 2020 by going bonkers, as can be seen by the rolling back in recent months of various Diversity Inclusion Equity initiatives foolishly adopted during the post–George Floyd lunacy, despite them being obvious bad ideas. …
Also this week, The New York Times published its own study of how the top 80 most competitive colleges could cunningly evade the Supreme Court’s ruling by giving preferences that aren’t superficially racial to boost black and Hispanic admissions, such as by preferring working-class students.
The Times was not terribly interested in preferences for blue-collar families back in the past. But now that the Supreme Court has determined that the 14th Amendment’s demand for “equal protection of the laws” means what it says, the Times they are a-changin’.
Read the whole thing there.
