New economic research indicates that better-looking men and women have an upper hand over their homelier colleagues in the marketplace, but this is a result of consumer preference, not employer discrimination. It parcels out American history along blood lines. Uncle Sam has no business asking people how many Jews, Catholics or Unitarians inhabit a particular home or occupy a given office. The state likewise should leave ethnographic studies to professors and pollsters. Michigan seeks is an oddly one-dimensional kind.
Race overrides everything else.
United States Judge Friedman's ruling striking down racial preferences at the University of Michigan law school rejected the notion that racial diversity justifies discriminating on the basis of skin color. Join the network for free. The Freedom Network is a service of The Henry Hazlitt Foundation . Click here to make a donation. .