Affirmative action preferences have traditionally benefited four racial and ethnic group categories: African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. These categories may be overinclusive, masking ...

Under the Supreme Court’s strict scrutiny test, governments must have both a compelling interest to employ a racial classification in a program and that use of race must be narrowly tailored. After Adarand Constructors, ...

The federal transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program is a relic from another era that no longer serves a civil rights purpose. DBE is the progeny of the 10% minority set-aside provision in the 1977 ...

On Election Day, while the country’s attention was otherwise engaged, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously stuck down the racial preferences in Section 1207 of the National Defense Authorization Act (1987), the ...

Almost every major United States university requires faculty members and students who wish to do research on “human subjects” to submit proposals to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). These university Boards/committees, ...

The uncovered set was developed in order to predict outcomes when spatial models result in an empty core. In contrast to conventional approaches, fuzzy spatial models induce a substantial degree of individual and collective ...

The policy of creating preferences for businesses owned at least fifty-one percent by members of “minority” groups is now more than three decades old. In 1977, Congressman Parren Mitchell, the head of the Congressional ...

While the Electoral College may not be good for the political system, it is very good for political science (and public choice). This essay documents many of the ways in which this assertion is true.

The Supreme Court has sanctioned displays of Christian crèches,1 Jewish menorahs,2 and the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments.3 Lower courts have rejected Establishment Clause claims against the display of the Latin cross ...