Academic Affirmative Action Is a Really Bad Idea. Here’s Why.

If professors like Elizabeth Warren want to be taken seriously, then they should admit what every academic knows: race matters.

• Salvatore Babones
• The National Interest

In 2003, with my doctoral dissertation approved and my PhD certificate in the mail, I went on the academic job market looking for an assistant professor position in sociology.

I applied for more than eighty jobs and got just three interviews.

One of them was at the sociology department of the University of Pittsburgh.

It was the middle of winter, I had a chest infection, and Pittsburgh was very cold.

I was flying…

• Academic Affirmative…