Dr. Randall Kennedy of the Harvard School of Law will be debating Jason Riley, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and regular commentator on Fox News on the topic of whether liberal policies make it harder for blacks to Succeed at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, in Room 5206 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Drive. The event is free and open to the public.
Riley recently wrote a book entitled, “Please Stop Helping us! How Liberal Policies Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed.” Dr. Kennedy, a highly accomplished academic who isn’t ashamed to say he benefited from affirmative action himself, is challenging Riley’s claim.
The lecture is cosponsored by the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation, Turning Point USA and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).
ISI was the brainchild of journalist Frank Chodorov. In two articles written in the early 1950s, he called for a “fifty-year project” to revive the American ideals of individual freedom and personal responsibility “by implanting the idea in the minds of the coming generations.” In 1953 Chodorov founded ISI expressly for that purpose. He chose a young Yale University graduate, William F. Buckley Jr., as ISI’s first president.