Duke Law School has continued to engage in race-based discrimination in admissions for classes in 2023, 2024 and 2025, according to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. The school’s admissions process, presented through the polished language of higher education, kept drawing lines around people by race. Same old hierarchy. Same old gatekeeping.
Who Gets Sorted Out
The opinion piece says the discrimination continued across three admissions cycles: classes in 2023, 2024 and 2025. That means the practice did not stop with one class or one moment. It kept going. Year after year, the institution at the center of the process held the power to decide who gets in and who stays out, and it used race as part of that sorting.
The article gives no hint of a grassroots response, no mutual aid network, no horizontal organizing from the people being pushed through the machine. What it does show is the machine itself. Duke Law School, the admissions office, the categories, the decisions. The people on the receiving end don’t appear as decision-makers. They appear as applicants being sorted by an institution with the authority to admit or deny.
The Apparatus at Work
The Wall Street Journal opinion piece frames the issue as race-based discrimination in admissions. That language matters because it points to a system that claims neutrality while operating through preference and exclusion. The school’s admissions process is not described as accidental. It is described as continued conduct across multiple classes, which means the hierarchy was not a one-off mistake. It was built into the routine.
The base article does not mention any legislative fix, court remedy, or electoral answer. No reform package arrives to save the day. Just the fact of continued discrimination, and the institution that carried it out. That silence says plenty. When power sits inside a school’s admissions office, the people affected are left waiting for the same institutions that built the problem to decide whether to correct it.
What the School Controlled
The only named institution in the base article is Duke Law School. It is the actor with the power here, and the admissions classes in 2023, 2024 and 2025 are the field where that power played out. The article does not provide quotes from administrators or applicants, and it doesn’t need to. The structure is plain enough. A law school continued race-based discrimination in admissions, and the people applying had to live with the consequences.
That’s the quiet violence of institutional sorting. No sirens. No riot gear. Just forms, committees, and decisions made far above the people they affect. The language of merit and procedure can hide a lot, but not the basic fact that one side gets to choose and the other side gets chosen over.
The Wall Street Journal opinion piece says Duke Law School continued this practice for classes in 2023, 2024 and 2025. That’s the whole record provided here. Three admissions cycles. One institution. Race-based discrimination carried forward inside a system that likes to call itself civilized while it keeps drawing lines through people’s lives.