Has the effort to end race-based admissions in higher education—a major goal of conservative and libertarian institutions for years—resulted in significant harms to mostly white applicants? That is the provocative claim of Helen Andrews in a new article for Compact magazine that seeks to undermine support for race-neutrality and meritocracy in American institutions.
Andrews wields this claim as part of a broader invective against Asian immigration, which she has maligned on X in recent days. In Andrews' view, we should start to worry about Asian overrepresentation in the upper echelons of American society, in particular because of Asian "grind culture" and what she views as pervasive "cheating" among Asian students on tests. The idea that this is a uniquely Asian problem is quite absurd, though Andrews is quite fond of stereotyping various identity groups.
