Welcome back to Ten Blocks.

This week's special episode features audio from a Manhattan Institute event cast

discussing classified the untold story of racial classification in America, a new book by David E. Bernstein.

Bernstein, a law professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, was joined by

Manhattan Institute Paulson

fellow Glenn C. Lowry, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University,

Adrian Davis, at Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies,

Ilya Shapiro. We hope you enjoy.

Good afternoon and welcome to the Virtual Manhattan Institute for this forum about a timely new book.

I'm Ilya Shapiro, Director of Constitutional Studies, a new area of focus for M.I.

I'm delighted to be at this dynamic organization,

working for what I consider to be our elite office

in Falls Church, Virginia.

I'll actually be visiting our headquarters in New York

for the first time next week ahead of an event

we're holding to preview the new Supreme Court term.

But turning to the topic at hand,

Americans are understandably squeamish about official, racial, and ethnic

classifications. Nevertheless, these classifications are ubiquitous in American life. Applying

for a job, mortgage, university admission, citizenship, or government contract involves

checking a box, indicating whether one is black, white,

Asian, Hispanic, or Native American. In an increasingly diverse society with high rates of

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