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While President Bill Clinton's decision to withdraw law professor Lani Guinier's nomination as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights mollified moderates, it infuriated the professional civil rights establishment and made the President appear weak and incompetent. After a meeting with Guinier in the Oval Office, Clinton admitted, mortifyingly, "At the time of the nomination, I had not read her writings. In retrospect, I wish I had." The President and First Lady have been friends of Guinier's for 20 years. While claiming that he could not defend Guinier's positions, Clinton also insisted that many of them were...
...issue that Lani Guinier attacks in her writings -- the tyranny of the majority, as James Madison described it -- is neither obscure nor an unworthy target. But it's small wonder that few people are familiar with her scholarship. Turgid and ambiguous, Guinier's writing is not the stuff of bedtime reading. A case in point is her 48,948-word article in the Michigan Law Review of March 1991, titled "The Triumph of Tokenism," which Clinton singled out last week in explaining why he was withdrawing her nomination. "Many of her analyses I agree with," he said, but he dismissed...
...Robert Mapplethorpe against Jesse Helms. In April, Hackney seemed the natural choice to be President Clinton's nominee to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the agency that dispenses federal grants to academia (about $160 million in 2,200 grants last year). But in this post-Lani Guinier period, the past makes Hackney ideologically suspect. Once he may have been in the catbird seat; now Hackney may be a sitting duck...
...political correctness, that most nettlesome of campus issues. As president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981, Hackney has handled a series of incidents that critics say reflect on his judgment and temperament. Conservative standard-bearer Patrick Buchanan puts it bluntly: "He is a politically correct leftist like Lani Guinier -- a virtuecrat, out of touch with Middle America...
...Lani Guinier: The views that drew fire...