Volume 31, Number 6 · April 12, 1984
A Simple Problem Science Can't Solve
By Richard C. Lewontin
Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition
by Vivian Gornick
Simon and Schuster, 172 pp., $15.95
The earliest discussion I know of in which intellectuals explain to one another why affirmative action just doesn't work in the academy is in Book V of The Republic. Socrates makes a convincing chairman of the department.
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