Letters to the Editor

Editors: Nicolaus Mills (Affirmative Action Symposium, Fall1995) is correct to point out that “[t]he left needs to acknowledge all that affirmative action cannot do…” and that “liberals [should] worry more about…undoing [the past] altogether [rather than compensating for it].” Affirmative action, we must admit, was meant to redress the effects of past discrimination, and was supposed to be temporary. Ideally, once affirmative action programs were successful...