Conversations about campus diversity are sweeping the nation and raising questions about race-based

admissions preferences for universities.

In one of the most striking developments, students have filed a federal complaint against Harvard University for anti-Asian bias,

charging the school and other leading universities with having a negative quota on the number of Asian students admitted.

Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

Thanks for joining us for the 10 Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary

with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests.

Joining our show today to discuss how the Ivy League discriminates against top-achieving

students is Dennis Safran, a Queens-based appellate attorney

and former GOP candidate for the New York City Council.

We'll start today's discussion from Dennis's controversial City Journal article,

Fewer Asians Need Apply from our winter issue and available on our website.

Thanks for joining us, Dennis.

You're quite welcome, Brian.

Asians have been the fastest growing racial group in the United States. What impact has that

growth made on the racial demographics of higher education in the country? Well, unfortunately,

it hasn't made nearly as much impact as it should have. Among the statistics cited in this suit

and that are available elsewhere is that even though Asians and particularly young Asians,

particularly the college cohort is by far the fastest growing racial group, the Asian percentage at the elite universities has just flatlined,

has remained steady in the 14 to 19 percent range over the last 15, 20 years after dropping

precipitously in the few years before that. And it's a trend as I

show and as they document in the federal complaint that just uncannily parallels the imposition

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