Some Quick Links Out and About the Claremont Blogosphere

• CMC Associate Math Professor Mark Huber has a fantastic blog on science fiction, math, and his general thoughts on life. Highly recommended, especially if you are a closeted sci fi geek like me. (Okay, truthfully, no closet could hold me.)

• Michael D. Steinberger, a Pomona Professor, has a great paper on the economics of homosexuals and the death tax. It was picked up by The Wall Street Journal (gated) and more or less confirms what I have been saying about how the gay activists have been wrong to focus on equality through the state power. You can't make people recognize the supposed equality of your marriage, but you certainly can ask them for a little fairness on the tax code.

• Claremont McKenna econ. professors, Janet Smith and Heather Antecol find that colleges that resort to Early Decision admissions tend to have less diverse students. Why should diversity be a goal for universities anyways? And maybe this is because for institutions, it is more expensive in terms of resources to and so only colleges with large endowments can afford to discriminate on the basis of race. These colleges can Yes, the colleges that are poorer and resort to their ED program would probably have more white people represented in that elite pool, but at the same time, that's not a function of their whiteness, per se. Remember there are more poor white people in this country than there are Hispanics and Asians put together.