With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview on John Stone Street with the point,

while some 74% of Americans believe race and ethnicity should not be considered in college

admissions, others are lamenting the Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action as

an inevitable catastrophe.

In the words of one headline from the Atlantic, quote, elite multiculturalism is over.

However, what so rarely asked is the question, did affirmative action ever work in the first

place?

Back in 2004, renowned economist Thomas Soel at 1958 Harvard grad set out to answer that

question, surveying educational systems around the world.

He not only concluded that affirmative action was ineffective, he'd likened it to a wrong

medical diagnosis and prescription.

Quote, false beliefs are not small things because they lead to false solutions.

In the field of medicine, it's long been recognized that even a false cure that is wholly harmless

in itself can be catastrophic in its consequences if it substitutes for a real cure for a deadly

disease.

In other words, good intentions?

Just really aren't enough.

The Colson Center on John Stone Street.