by Peter Schwartz

About the author: Peter Schwartz is chair of the board of directors at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California.

Editor’s Note: This article was written about the impending June 2003 Supreme Court decision in Grutter v. Bollinger.

President [George W.] Bush faces an ideal opportunity to take a principled position on the issue of racial “diversity.” As his administration ponders whether to support the legal challenge, now before the Supreme Court, to the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies, he should go further and raise a moral challenge to the entire notion of “diversity.” Instead of timidly wavering on this question, in fear of being smeared by Democrats as racist, President Bush should rise to the occasion by categorically repudiating racism—and condemning “diversity...