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George Leef

2 articles 2011–2013

George Leef is a writer and commentator focused on higher education, law, and free-market economics. He is the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal (formerly the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy). He contributed book reviews and commentary to The Weekly Standard in the early 2010s.

The Price Was High

January 21, 2013 · George Leef, Magazine, affirmative action

Almost no one understood it at the time, but Lyndon Johnson’s speech at Howard University in June 1965 marked a disastrous change in civil rights policy. Previously, the civil rights movement had sought to overturn the entrenched, often legally mandated discrimination that was the legacy of Jim…

Objection Sustained

March 28, 2011 · Law, George Leef, Magazine

Schools for Misrule Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America by Walter Olson Encounter, 296 pp., $25.95