With regard to affirmative action, under the guidance of EEOC, the University of Colorado feels that ‘after self-reflection’ you may define your own racial and gender identity for purposes of hiring. Nothing so disturbing as proof is required; it would be declasse even to offer to provide it.

You couldn’t set up a system more likely to be scammed (Dorothy Sayers) “if you thought about it with both feet.”

Any time - it’s not frequent - that I doubt the wisdom of the founding fathers, and think the checks and balances are so much condensed common sense, set up merely because anyone with the least experience of the world would set up such a system, I look at the University of Colorado and the United Nations.