ast: Carpe Diem! with Mark Perry // (Steven Hayward).
Mark Perry
What do you do if you wake up to see the news article about how the University of North Carolina is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by offering a scholarship that excludes white students? You think you should call Mark Perry. But he’s already on that job! Perry, professor emeritus of finance and economics at the University of Michigan/Flint filed a formal complaint to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Within a day UNC had reversed its exclusion of whites scholarship eligibility.
Mark Perry has made a speciality out of citizen-driven civil right enforcement (which is explicitly permitted in civil rights statutes). He has filed hundreds of similar formal civil right complaints, most of them with success. We discuss how Perry got into this cottage industry and the wider work he is doing to track the explosive growth in “diversity equity and inclusion” bureaucracies within higher education.
Mark is an economist so we conclude our discussion with an exploration of the high inflation that burst forth after decades of low inflation. Mark agrees with me on my field hypothesis as to why it happened now.
Mark’s website Carpe Diem and Twitter should be followed by everyone.
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