Race relations op-eds

Racial Statistics Are Counterproductive (published under a different, rather uninformative, headline)

Talking Sense About Race Is Difficult, Important

What True Diversity Might Look Like

Studying Languages Helps Us Clearly Analyze Politics

Reparations Should Be About Forward Looking Reforms

Make Us All Citizens of the World

Ginsberg's Law Combats Microaggressions

Sweet Cakes Fine and Due Process of Law

Don't Ban The Confederate Flag. Appropriate It!

Improving Our Political Vocabulary

A racial litmus test for Supreme Court appointments https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/litmustest-race/2020/10/06/id/990578/

In defense of Yale's affirmative action program

https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/yale-affirmativeaction/2020/09/10/id/986284/

Justice or social justice: Why we can't always have both https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/social-justice/2020/08/04/id/980428/

Think carefully before "inheriting" your political party https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/depression-reconstruction-labor-minorities/2020/07/22/id/978470/

"No justice, no peace" slogan has it backwards https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/blacklivesmatter-protests-justice-peace/2020/07/08/id/976243/

Capitalism and racism: Allies or deadly enemies? https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/capitalism-racism/2020/06/30/id/974908/

Pseudolaws that don't apply to all not authorized by the Constitution https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/constitution-laws/2020/02/18/id/954548/

Constitutional "originalism" reconsidered https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/constitution-originalism-amendments-eric-foner/2019/10/15/id/937208/

Integration, segregation, both treat people on basis of race https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/plessy-feguson-brown-busing/2019/08/27/id/930224/

Busing never was and never will be a good idea https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/biden-harris-public-schools/2019/07/09/id/923855/

Rethinking Brown v. Board of Education: a concurring opinon https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/brown-v-board-concurring-opinion/2019/05/07/id/914971/

A concurring opinion may have helped in Brown v. Board of Education https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/brown-v-board-of-education-concurring-opinion/2019/04/30/id/913930/

Never, ever, let science employer racism https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/genetically-iq-racial-scientific/2019/02/13/id/902510/

A most welcome outcome? Repealing State Voter ID laws https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/birth-certificates-courts-democrats/2018/11/14/id/890661/

Laws can't solve all our problems https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/act-civil-discrimination-employment/2018/10/02/id/884422/

State, private discrimination: studying the important distinctions https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/government-sanctions-universities/2018/07/03/id/869738/

Societal, legal roadblocks obstruct tolerance as a two-way street https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/congress-noonan-oregon/2018/06/12/id/865648/

Census a poor tool for addressing race https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/ferguson-person-plessy/2018/04/03/id/852295/

Denying felons the vote incompatible with democracy https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/federalist-hamilton-hayakawa-kissinger/2018/03/20/id/849747/

What would Martin Luther King think of today's America? https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/martin-luther-king-jr-voting-representation/2018/01/16/id/837395/

Quantify people's merits, not their race https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/bell-heisenberg-iq/2017/11/21/id/827510/

Don't ban the confederae flag, appropriate it https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/black-lives-matter-first-amendment-oregon/2017/10/10/id/818833/

What should a truly diverse society look like? https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/diversity-affirmative-action-robert-nozick/2017/08/08/id/806503/

Does Ginsburg's Law Apply toMicroaggressions? https://www.newsmax.com/paulfdelespinasse/microaggressions-ruth-bader-ginsburg/2017/04/18/id/784987/