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Steven Pinker on Harvard Admissions: Ignoring the Elephant in the Room

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Steven Pinker (“The Trouble with Harvard“) argues that students should be selected on the basis of standardized testing. He is tone deaf on Jewish overrepresentation and on the underrepresentation of non-Jewish Whites. Like many observers of American universities, I used to believe the following story. Once upon a time Harvard was a finishing school for […]

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Jewish Ethnic Networking

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American Whites of European extraction — particularly White males — are being systematically displaced in the very country they built. This surely will not be news to TOO readers. As editor Kevin MacDonald has already pointed out, the appointment of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is testimony to this trend: Kagan’s arrival on the […]

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Abe Foxman’s Retirement: A TOO Retrospective, Part 2

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Part 1. The Canard Strategy. Foxman loves to silence his opponents by simply saying that they are resorting to canards. Andrew Joyce began his article “Justice Denied: Thoughts on Truth, “canards,” and the Marc Rich Case” by noting: One of the most intriguing features of the posturing of the Anti-Defamation League, and other Jewish ethnic […]

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Samuel Goldman on Nathaniel Rich: “mild nepotism” or ethnic networking?

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Jewish ethnic networking has been a theme at TOO, ranging from appointments to the Supreme Court (notoriously, Elena Kagan), admissions to elite universities, the world of art (e.g., Mark Rothko), literature (e.g., pro-Israel writers Shani Boianjiu and Risa Miller), and philosophy (e.g., Spinoza). Not to mention the intellectuals discussed in The  Culture o f  Critique. Now […]

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Ron Unz et l’illusoire méritocratie américaine

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English original here  Le regard que les Juifs portent sur eux-mêmes comporte cette caractéristique persistante qu’ils voient leur ascension au statut d’élites, en Amérique et ailleurs, comme le résultat naturel de la méritocratie. Par exemple, quand Elena Kagan a été proposée pour la Cour Suprême, Robert Frank a écrit un article dans le Wall Street Journal (“Cette brillante […]

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Ron Unz on the illusory American meritocracy

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French Translation, by Armor An enduring aspect of the self-concept of Jews is that their ascent to elite status in America and elsewhere is the natural result of a meritocracy. For example, after Elena Kagan was nominated for the Supreme Court, Robert Frank penned an article in the Wall Street Journal (“That Bright, Dying Star, […]

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David N. Meyers on Free Speech in Israel and America

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Today’s L.A. Times has a stirring defense of academic freedom by David N. Myers (“In defense of academic freedom“).  It looks like the Department of Politics and Government of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is about to be shut down by the Likudniks. No surprise, given that the professors there have criticized the government, one professor going so […]