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Affirmative Action, the Administrative State, and The Right's Victory in the Courts

"Moment of Zen"

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The Importance of Equity in the Face of Adversity

There's never going to be equity because that's the way the world works. You cannot affirmative action your way into having underrepresented minorities somehow have the most valuable startups in the country. Agnes Callard is a philosopher who has this quote she says you know how do we reconcile egalitarianism and meritocracy? No philosopher not Kant or Aristotle has yet figured out how to construct a moral theory that allows us to save both of those things. I think all the Supreme Court stuff though is actually culture war stuff packaged by the media.

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