According to the influential British journal The Economist (here, but full text available here),
The era of affirmative action seems to be drawing to a close. It has always been unpopular with the majority of Americans: 58 percent of voters in Michigan wanted to restrict the policy in a ballot in November.
The Supreme Court has been able to defend the practice only by producing some implausible guff about “diversity.” And the new conservative majority is unlikely to let that nonsense endure for much longer. But what should replace it? Ideally, something quite different.
Ideally, of course, a policy based on racial distinctions and racial preferences that has “always been unpopular with the majority of Americans” would not have lasted as long as it has, nor would it have been propped up by the courts with “implausible guff about ‘diversity.’”
But a long overdue curtain on the farcical last act is better than no curtain at all.
