Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

This week's special episode

features a discussion between Glenn Laurie, a Manhattan Institute Paulson Fellow, and the

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University, and Randall Kennedy, the Michael

Klein Professor of Law at Harvard University. Glenn and Randall debate the merit of affirmative action,

and their conversation hosted by the College of the Holy Cross, is moderated by Manhattan

Institute Paulson policy analyst Reynum Mukherjee. Glenn and Randall spar over the historical

justification for affirmative action, the consequences of the Supreme Court students

for fair admissions v. Harvard ruling, and the state of race and education in America, themes

that Glenn explores more thoroughly in his forthcoming memoir, late admissions, confessions

of a black conservative, which is due out next May. We hope you enjoy.

I'm Greg Burnett from the Political Science Department, and I want to welcome you to our

annual Constitution Day event here at Holy Cross. Constitution Day, which fell on a Sunday this year,

commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution

on September 17, 1787.

And here's a fun fact about Constitution Day. Holy Cross, like all educational institutions that receive

federal money, is actually legally required to hold an educational program

related to the Constitution on or around Constitution Day. So feds, if you're listening,

we are fulfilling our duty here today. This year, we are incredibly fortunate to have three distinguished guests. I'll introduce

them in a moment and they'll take us the rest of the way on the subject of affirmative action in

higher education. This is a topic that I and several of my colleagues have

been eager to discuss on our campus, and it has taken on even more significance in the wake of the

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