Rick Hess

If I'm a conservative who is uncomfortable about race-based preferences, the argument for race-based preferences that Harvard University is making -- that Harvard University has so much integrity and Harvard University is so careful that we can trust them to dance in gray areas of constitutional propriety because they exercise great discretion -- takes a huge blow.

What the Department of Education is talking about is wholly sensible and is an appropriate and totally unsurprising correction to what the Obama administration did.