The Antithesis Of Sensible
To expand on Matt’s point about this otherwise disturbingly excellent Peter Beinart column, it’s not merely that Stuart Taylor isn’t “normally sensible”; it’s that he exemplifies egregious double standards with respect to racial classifications. His long-standing, full-throated defense of racial profiling has always coexisted alongside the belief that even the mildest forms of affirmative action are immense injustices.