In its February “Notes and Comments” section, The New Criterion weighs in on the C-Dub v. Summers Harvard showdown, distilling the controversy to its (obvious) racialist kernel:

It was inevitable…that once a policy of ‘affirmative action’ was established to govern the admission of students and the hiring of faculty at Harvard the same racially determined criteria would have to be applied to the content of the courses to be studied. For what is ‘affirmative action’ if not the liberal euphemism for the legitimatizing of racial discrimination in favor of ‘minorities’? The result has been a selective ghettoization of the curriculum, with Black Studies accorded not just a separatist program of study but also a separatist standard of achievement for both faculty and students. In other words, academic apartheid.

All parties to the dispute are, of course, in categorical denial of this disagreeable reality, yet this is what the controversy at Harvard has really been about from the outset, and it is the sheerest moral hypocrisy for either President Summers or Professor West or for any of their respective supporters in the academy and in the press to pretend otherwise.

Strong stuff, eloquently stated. And, sadly, its all true…

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