'The Infernal Senate" by Tom Geoghegan, in The New Republic (Nov. 21,1994), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
W.Hays Parks,inProceedings (Sept.1994)'
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In October 1991, when U.S. Navy leaders learned that news of the Tailhook debauchery was about to break, they immediately tried to send a strong message: sexual harassment would not be tolerated. In their rush to judg- ment, contends Parks, a retired marine colonel, they actually sent a very different messagmne that ironically helped to ensure that those guilty of criminal wrongdoing at the...
Alan Grob, in Reconstruction (Vol. 2, No. 3,1994), 1563 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02138; "Old 'Quota' Under Attack Ben Gose, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 29,1994), 1255 23rd St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.
Critics of affirmative action seldom object to another departure from the meritocratic ideal: geographic preferences in college ad- missions and scholarships. Yet these quotas have nothing like affirmative action's "mor- ally compelling" justification, argues...
'The Question of Black Crime" John J. DiIulio, Jr., with commentaries by Glenn C. Loury et al., in The Public Interest (Fall 1994), 1112 16th St. N.W., Ste. 530, Washington, D.C. 20036; "The State, Criminal Law, and Racial Discrimination: A Comment" by Randall Kennedy, in Harvard Law Review (April 1994), Gannett House, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
Believing that America's criminal justice system is stacked against African-Ameri- cans at every turn, many black and white- liberal critics...