Class sessions that
critiqued notions
of social justice and multiculturalism, raised concerns about
affirmative action or a culture
of «victimhood,» advocated phonics and back - to - basics instruction, or were generally positive with regard to testing or choice - based reform were coded as «right leaning.»
He published many articles both in technical law journals and also in the New York Review
of Books, none more important than his
critique in several articles in 1977 and 1978
of the supreme court's inconclusive decision
of the Regents
of the University
of California v Bakke case, which arose out
of widespread dissatisfaction with «
affirmative action», or positive discrimination.