By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Conservatives are always looking for their holy grail of social science: empirical proof that liberal policies do more harm than good. If Charles Murray was right in "Losing Ground" and welfare actually makes the poor worse off, the debate is over -- no one wants to do that.
For the first time in nearly a decade, the issue of race as a factor in college admissions comes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, thrusting affirmative action back into the national spotlight.
"It's likely, I think, to perhaps become the most important case in history on racial preferences," said Stuart Taylor Jr., a Supreme Court scholar and co-author of the new book "Mismatch," which examines affirmative action and its use by institutions of higher education.
