The Harm of Preferences

Terry Eastland looks at the issue of preferences and Mismatch, the new book by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor. An excerpt:

Maybe what is needed is some reminder of the moral reason behind that idea, which is, as William Van Alstyne, then of Duke Law School, put it, that “individuals are not merely social means; i.e., they are not merely examples of a group, representatives of a cohort, or fungible surrogates of other human beings; each, rather, is a person whom it is improper to count or discount by race.”