Even before the decision was released, selective universities began taking steps to eliminate paper trails and make their blatant discrimination harder to prove; Columbia became the first in the Ivy League to stop requiring standardized testing, justifying that deeply regressive action with some word salad about being “holistic and contextual.” (More or less their same justification for excluding Jews a century ago.) Others are cooking up “adversity scores” and other schemes to wriggle out of treating applicants equally.

The truth is, elite higher education is no longer in the business of producing knowledge or seeking truth, but anointing the ruling class. The experts already know everything, as far as they’re concerned, and treating human beings as individuals isn’t half as important as fashioning an aristocracy that “looks like America.” If you don’t check the right boxes, then you don’t matter.