Culture & Society

(Falls Church, VA) The Center for Equal Opportunity has launched a campaign to caution American colleges and universities against developing improper campus sexual misconduct regimes. The communication offers a number of best practices that schools should implement to align with judicial decisions that have been released affirming due process elements of the 2020 U.S. Department of Education Title IX regulation. These best practices relate to procedural due process, impartiality and bias, burdens of proof, standards of evidence, and the right to representation, live hearings, and final reports. In the initial round of mailings, CEO has contacted one school in each …

This article originally appeared on Townhall.com President Joe Biden has nominated some terribly polarizing candidates for crucial posts in his administration. Time and again, President Biden and his Democrat allies in the Senate have had to ram through – largely on part-line votes – nominees accused by GOP lawmakers of being radically partisan including the head of policy at DoD, Colin Kahl, and the third-highest official at the Justice Department, Vanita Gupta. True-to-form, President Biden has nominated a disastrous nominee to lead civil rights at the Department of Education in Catherine Lhamon. As with his calamitous nomination of Neera Tanden …

This article originally appeared on Townhall.com. It may be well past time for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to undergo a mental health evaluation. As a result of numerous bizarre statements and actions, such as only granting interviews to reporters of color, it appears she needs help. In one of her moments of relative lucidity however, Lightfoot made an important revelation. In an otherwise incoherent presser where she declared racism against people of color a public health crisis, Lightfoot claimed that her “parents, like so many others of their generation and other generations were indoctrinated to believe that they could never, ever be able …

From the The Federal Society’s Regulatory and Transparency Project: A new panel discussion on Critical Race Theory. Linda Chavez, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity moderates the program and is joined by Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars and author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project, and John Agresto, former President of St. John’s College in Santa Fe. Related posts: The Nitty Gritty of Diversity Meaningful Numbers Achieving, or Not, Critical Mass When Academic Achievement Means ‘Acting White’

This post originally appeared on the Manhattan Institute Website CEO Chairman Linda Chavez interviews Wall Street Journal columnist and CEO board member Jason Riley on his new biography of Thomas Sowell.  With a career spanning more than a half-century and contributions to fields ranging from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture, Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest social theorists of our age. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been …

Commissioner Janet Dhillon of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) invited me to testify at a hearing on the “Civil Rights Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Then, just days before the April 28th hearing, she disinvited me. Commissioner Dhillon’s invitation to me to participate in the hearing was not altogether surprising. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic I led the civil rights program at the United States Department of Agriculture. I currently head an organization that promotes equal opportunity and antidiscrimination in all facets of American life. Dhillon’s disinvitation of me came as more of a shock. A few …