I was glad that it came down this way, but at the same time, like it would have been better if they had said that affirmative action was illegal as opposed to this instance being unconstitutional. I don't think that's going to happen. These places are essentially just factories of wokeness. So why are we supposed to be so excited that, oh, great. Now, it'll be purely meritocratic who gets to be wokified? And now, of course, they'll just come up with other ways to do it.
French police shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old immigrant of Algerian and Moroccan descent with a long history of criminal activity, sparking violent protest across the country. Is this France’s George Floyd moment—or something darker still? Stateside, the courts have been on a roll, preliminarily blocking the Biden administration from overtly colluding with social media companies and banning explicit race-based affirmative action in university admissions. The editors discuss the rolling civilizational crisis and, of course, remind you to read the damn site.