Robert Weissberg

Off-hand remarks can destroy a candidate. In August of 1967, for example the then-governor of Michigan, George Romney, a leading contender for the Republican nomination for president explained his shifting change of opinion on the war…

There is an old puzzle about if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear the crash, does it make a sound? A similar, though more serious question, concerns public opinion: if people have opinions on a subject but the pollsters…

Current campus disturbances outwardly resemble past protests. It would be as if they all shared a common script—righteous indignation, yelling and screaming slogans, lists of non-negotiable demands, going limp when police try to remove…

For more than a half century the federal government has enacted countless laws and issued thousands of administrative decrees to promote racial equality. Central to this quest has been the doctrine of “disparate impact” (based on Title VII…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently appointed Zakiya Carr Johnson as the State Department’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.Her mission, according to Blinken, was to help build a workforce that reflects America. Given that…

The Diversity Inclusion and Equity (DIE) movement is in retreat. Or at least it seems so. The University of Texas-Austin has just announced that it is laying off some 60 DIE functionaries while banning mandatory diversity training. Similar…

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