Do We Need to Keep Affirmative Action Going?

In today's Pope Center piece, Larry Purdy (one of the lawyers who worked on the Grutter case) reviews Affirmative Action for the Future by Notre Dame philosophy professor James Sterba. Purdy finds the book to be little more than repetition of the cliches that proponents of "diversity" have been using for decades and that it completely ignores the many arguments against both the morality and utility of giving certain individuals preference just because of their ancestry.