Forum: Affirmative Action I
By Sam Barr, Harvard Political Review This is the first in a six-part ACE Forum on class-based affirmative action. Class-based affirmative action is an issue on which unorthodox liberals and unorthodox conservatives seem to have found common ground. (For summaries … [more?]
Forum: Affirmative Action II
By John Gee, Penn Political Review This is the second entry in a six-part ACE Forum on affirmative action. Sam suggests that conservatives who oppose race-based affirmative action must necessarily oppose class-based affirmative action, ending his post with a call … [more?]
Forum: Affirmative Action III
By Connie Wu, The Brown Spectator This is the third entry in a six-part ACE Forum on affirmative action. The civil rights movement espoused an ideal that all Americans should embrace: the creation of a color-blind society in which persons … [more?]
Forum: Affirmative Action IV
By Jeremy Pilaar, Berkeley Political Review This is the fourth entry in a four-part ACE Forum on affirmative action. As an immediately actionable method of increasing the number of low-income students in elite colleges, I like the basic concept of … [more?]
Forum: Affirmative Action VI
By Noah Fram, Vanderbilt Political Review This is the last in a six-part ACE Forum on affirmative action. All of the essays so far have maintained, in some way, that identity-based affirmative action, however well-intentioned, has failed to work in … [more?]
Forum: Drone Killings III
By Trent Serwetz, The Gothic Guardian (Duke University) This is the third part of an ACE Forum on the use of drones in US military action. In ancient times, warriors fought within meters of their opposition, feeling the sweat and … [more?]
Forum: Drone Killings IV
By John Gee, Penn Political Review This is the fourth part of an ACE Forum on the use of drones in US military action. Technology discussions often disappoint me. Rather than engage substantively with human nature and the structure of … [more?]
Forum: Drone Killings V
By Noah Fram, Vanderbilt Political Review This is the fifth part of an ACE Forum on the use of drones in US military action. After sixty-five years, human rights activists still delight in skewering the Truman administration for its deployment … [more?]
Forum: Revolution in the Middle East I
By Hinh Tran, Berkeley Political Review This is the first in a series of articles on the recent uprisings in the Middle East. Authoritarian regimes across the Middle East are atremble as popular revolution threatens to engulf a second country … [more?]
Interview with Mark McKinnon
Mark McKinnon is a former advisor to President George W. Bush presidential candidate Senator John McCain. With Democratic Party fundraiser Nancy Jacobson, he is the founder of No Labels, a coalition of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. Columbia Political Review The … [more?]
Interview with Mark Rudd
ACE conducted this interview with Weather Underground founder Mark Rudd in October 2010. Penn Political Review 1. Considering your very high regard for Cuba as a political and social entity, as discussed on your website, what do you have to … [more?]
Interview with Rebiya Kadeer
Rebiya Kadeer is a prominent Uighur activist. You can read Ms. Kadeer’s biography in the New York Times here. ACE conducted this collaborative interview in September 2010. Berkeley Political Review 1. There has been much talk in American academia in … [more?]