Two recent events show that our obsession with diversity and racial balancing is leading to substantial discrimination against a minority group—Asian Americans.

Bias in favor of or against an individual simply because of his or her race or ethnicity is morally wrong. When bias is government policy, the outcome is also invariably bad.

What is required to heal America is a return not to free speech, but to the original assumption behind free speech. The traditional reason that we protect even outrageous messages from government interference is the expectation that out of this cacophony of messages, truth will emerge. Free speech is not just about speaking, but about listening and deciding.

While classical education has exploded in recent decades, this movement of diverse schools lacks a philosophical figure who centers the goals of classical education; Edmund Burke could fill that need.

Across the culture wars of the Trump era, from the controversies over diversity and dissent in academia and Silicon Valley to the president’s personal war against protesting pro football players, there is a principled argument that the best cure for polarization everywhere is a stronger respect for freedom of speech.

In recent years, the foundational values of free speech and open inquiry have increasingly come under assault at the nation’s colleges and universities. Given the enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars that flow to the academy, it is both reasonable and appropriate to insist that federal funds no longer support research at institutions that choose to circumscribe speech and thought.

If a university were to state that it will not hire people applying for a faculty position because of their race, sex, or religion, that would be clearly illegal. No school would dare to disregard applicants simply because “people of their kind” were not wanted.

Ideologies are mind-traps: They are constructed in such a way that they prejudge the motive of opposition to their systems. The great aim of liberal education is to liberate students from mere unexamined opinion into genuine thought…

It’s no secret that the majority of the faculty at our colleges and universities lean heavily to the left and generally support the Democratic Party’s agenda, and study after study over the last few decades has shown that ideological and political imbalance to be growing increasingly more dramatic. A new study has produced perhaps the most eye-opening findings yet.