In June 2023, the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, law school let his students in on the secret to evading bans on racial preferences: Don't put anything in writing.
"Any time somebody says, 'You know we should really prefer this candidate or this candidate, cause this person would add diversity,' I say, 'don't say that,'" Erwin Chemerinsky told his constitutional law class in a leaked video. "You can think it, you can vote it, but … don't ever articulate that that's what you’re doing."
If that sounds insanely fucking obvious, congrats: You're smarter than a Harvard Law Review editor.
Or at least you're smarter than many of the editors exposed by the Ivy League's latest Deep Throat, who leaked more than 2,000 pages of internal law review memos to the Washington Free Beacon. The documents revealed a pervasive pattern of race discrimination at the student-run law journal, where editors would frequently say, in writing, that the review should publish fewer white men. Some editors even scored pieces based on the racial diversity of their footnotes, with one describing the "lack of diverse scholars being cited" as a piece's "most disappointing" feature.
The document dump led to three federal probes of the Harvard Law Review. The journal appeared to obstruct those probes when it retaliated against the student it claimed was the leaker, Daniel Wasserman, and pressed him to delete copies of the files, suggesting that journal editors know as little about evidence law as they do about civil rights.
If Wasserman is indeed the leaker—though we wouldn't take the law review's word for it—he would be the first Harvard student to be named a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year. His other accomplishments include an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a prize in political theory from Yale, so he has a disgusting résumé that suggests he'll never amount to anything.
On the other hand, Wasserman is working at the White House, where he helps Stephen Miller and the Trump administration wage holy war on the forces of academic wokeness, so there is hope for him yet.
For exposing the racism of the Harvard Law Review and the low legal IQ of its editors, congratulations, mystery leaker, you are a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.