CMC Professor Frederick Lynch's Work Quoted

VDare.com writer and former editor at Forbes and the National Review, Peter Brimelow writes eloquently against racial preferences and quotas within the United States in his latest article. He interviews and writes about Claremont McKenna professor Frederick Lynch about quotas' effects on white males and their families.

Lynch, no fan of the left-wing multicultural noise machine, was one of the first to address the pervasive elite support for affirmative action in his several studies. One such study is Invisible Minorities.

A great quotation from the Brimelow piece (the bold and links are his.):

Meanwhile, the quota revolution rolls on. Its latest ramification is "diversity management"—permanent quotas, with no pretense that they are remedial or temporary, both for minorities and women, and increasingly for the ongoing wave of non-white immigrants to the U.S.

Quotas are inherently unstable. They inexorably create turf disputes between the various "protected classes." inevitably exacerbate racial polarization, particularly as the articulate white middle classes begin to be hit. Which is why Lynch thinks affirmative action is headed for "crisis." This vulnerability accounts for quota supporters' mounting fervor—above all their increasingly wild accusations of "racism." There can be no doubt that, until conservatives break the extraordinary power of this taboo in American debate, they will never get control of the culture. And they

Getting control of the quota debate itself will be comparatively easy.

I couldn't agree more. Blog away!

Claremont Institute's William Voegeli on SCHIP

The article ran in the New York Sun and is worth reading in in its entirety, particularly if you want to understand the socialist-lite dynamics at play with SCHIP.

In case you don't have the time to read it, it all boils down to liberals say they want a meaningful debate, yet end the conversation with moral blackmail and a 12-year old child whose family probably could afford health insurance.

William Voegeli is working on a book at the Claremont Institute appropriately titled, So . . . What Would Be Enough? Liberalism and the Problem of Limits.