Showing posts with label The Heritage Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Heritage Foundation. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2013

24 Harvard Student Groups: Graduating Jason Richwine ‘Debases All Of Our Degrees’

24 Harvard Student Groups: Graduating Jason Richwine ‘Debases All Of Our Degrees’: In response to the news that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government bestowed a doctrate upon disgraced former Heritage staffer Jason Richwine, 24 student groups at the elite university released a strongly worded letter condemning the decision to approve Richwine’s dissertation: We are deeply concerned with the academic integrity and the reputation of Harvard Kennedy School [...]/p

Disgraced Former Heritage Employee Says Author Of Racist Book Was His ‘Childhood Hero’

Disgraced Former Heritage Employee Says Author Of Racist Book Was His ‘Childhood Hero’: Jason Richwine, the former Heritage Foundation staffer who wrote a PhD dissertation claiming that “new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren,” told the Washington Examiner’s Byron York that such quasi-eugenic ideas have fascinated him for a long time. Indeed, Richwine identified Charles Murray, co-author of the Bell Curve, as a “childhood hero.” Murray’s [...]/p

Top Conservative Publication Defends Linking Hispanics To Low IQ

Top Conservative Publication Defends Linking Hispanics To Low IQ: Last week, a coauthor of the Heritage Foundation’s shoddy immigration report, Jason Richwine, resigned after it emerged that his PhD dissertation argued that Latinos and blacks were genetically intellectual inferior to white people. Monday morning, the flagship conservative journal National Review published a piece arguing that Richwine’s work was legitimate academic inquiry and that Heritage [...]/p

Seven Outlandish Things The Heritage Foundation’s Remaining Employees Believe

Seven Outlandish Things The Heritage Foundation’s Remaining Employees Believe: Late in the day Friday, the Heritage Foundation announced that Jason Richwine, the co-author of their widely criticized immigration report, was no longer employed by the conservative think tank. Shortly after the immigration report was released, the Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews reported that Richwine’s PhD dissertation claimed that “new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children [...]/p