"The Diversity Verdict"

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Are race preferences in admissions constitutional? I just finished producing a new documentary about the history of affirmative action. "The Diversity Verdict" is hosted by Laura Ingraham and is streaming now on Fox Nation.

The Supreme Court is likely to rule this month on two major affirmative action cases that could overturn 45 years of precedent. We trace the history of affirmative action from 1961 through 2023. A membership organization, Students for Fair Admissions, sued Harvard and UNC. The names of the individuals involved in the cases were kept hidden. But we found one of the students involved who wasn't afraid to show his face. He's an Asian-American who scored a 1590 on the SAT and had a 4.65 GPA. Despite his stellar credentials, he was rejected by Harvard and all the elite schools he applied to. He says he was discriminated against on account of his race. 'It's harder to get in as an Asian-American,' is what his high school guidance counselor told him.

Guests include

  • Edward Blum, President of Students for Fair Admissions

  • Gail Heriot, US Commission on Civil Rights

  • Richard Sander, UCLA Law

  • Glenn Loury, Brown University

  • Charles Murray, Social Scientist

  • Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board

  • Carol Swain, Fmr. Vanderbilt University Professor

  • Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School

  • Mark Paoletta, Fmr. Asst. White House Counsel, Close Friend of Justice Clarence Thomas

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Kayvon Afshari

Kayvon Afshari managed the campaign to elect Hooshang Amirahmadi as President of Iran. In this role, he directed the campaign’s event planning, publicity, online social media, web analytics, and delivered speeches. Mr. Afshari has also been working at the CBS News foreign desk for over five years. He has coordinated coverage of Iran’s 2009 post-election demonstrations, the Arab Spring, the earthquake in Haiti, and many other stories of international significance. He holds a Master in International Relations from New York University’s Department of Politics, and graduated with distinction from McGill University in 2007 with a double major in political science and Middle Eastern studies. At NYU, his research focused on quantitative analysis and the Middle East with an emphasis on US-Iran relations. In his 2012 Master’s thesis, he devised a formula to predict whether Israel would launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, concluding that an overt strike would not materialize.