Merit & Excellence

Sacramento is moving to gut Prop 209's K-12 protections through ACA-7, which would open gifted programs and school admissions to race-based preferences after California voters rejected racial preference schemes twice. Meanwhile, a Hartford student who graduated with honors can't read a sentence, illustrating what happens when systems prioritize credentials over actual learning. From Chomsky's Epstein ties to Princeton professors whitewashing Khomeini, the posts here also track a broader pattern Thomas Sowell identified: elite institutions never hold their own accountable for being catastrophically wrong.