“Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
So wrote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent to Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the affirmative action case in which the Supreme Court held that our nation’s constitutional prohibition of racial discrimination constitutionally prohibits racial discrimination.
Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.
