here, welcome back to the realignment. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the show. Today's episode

features a return appearance by Richard Callenberg, who has written a new book, Class Matters,

the Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America's

Colleges. Richard previously came on The Realignment to discuss his last book, excluded

how snob zoning, nimbism, and class bias build the walls

we don't see. Now, the realignment spent a lot of time, especially in previous episodes,

talking about higher education, for looking at the most up for grabs and contentious post-2020

spaces at every single level from the cuts and research funding to the crackdown on protests to

debates around higher education's actual role in our lives. This is a completely open question.

And Richard's book, which is about how now a further of action is over based on race,

he wants us to have class and economic condition factored into one's admissions chances.

What's interesting about this is that Richard,

despite being a center-left liberal,

actually supported overturning the race-based

affirmative action policies of the past two years

that found him many friends on the right.

The thing I'm interested in discussing

is even though the polling supports the idea that people

are in favor of ending practices like legacy admissions and over preferences for athletes,

and instead allowing economic and class background to play a role admissions, I think we're going

to see a lot of tension, especially with the right over time. Because frankly, there is just

a lot of ways that the arguments

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