In @CityJournal, I explore a social question: Why would Columbia junior Yunseo Chung, a straight-A Korean immigrant who has lived in the US for years, join pro-Hamas protests alongside the likes of Mahmoud Khalil? My take: That’s the only way for Asian kids to be deemed “cool.”

RT @CityJournal: This Independence Day, we’ve asked six regular contributors to answer a simple question: Why do you love America? Read the….

Read why I love America here, alongside why five of my brilliant @ManhattanInst colleagues love America, too:

Happy Fourth! I love America, and as the daughter and granddaughter of Indian immigrants, I was told, repeatedly, to never take the privilege and honor of being an American for granted. I never will; I’m so grateful. This year, I wrote about my love for America in @CityJournal.

A lesser-discussed aspect of SCOTUS’s decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions was that there’s no way for schools to determine whether applicants are telling the truth, i.e., applicants can lie about their race with impunity…. From Oct. 2022 oral arguments:

I wonder why SCOTUS took up these cases so soon after Skrmetti, yet denied cert in Coalition for TJ & Boston Parent Coalition (cases on anti-Asian admissions policies to selective public high schools) following SFFA. (Obvi I’m thrilled the Court granted cert in the former cases!).

RT @dhume: To many Americans, Zohran Mamdani’s background—a Shiite Muslim born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents—may appear fresh and inte….

It’s here! My take on how Mamdani won NYC’s “Asian” vote is out in @CityJournal. Spoiler: Mamdani won b/c he didn’t treat “Asians” as a monolith. He used identity politics + heavy outreach with Bangladeshis, Pakistanis & Indian Sikhs, and help from sen. John Liu with East Asians.

I don’t support politicians—or anyone, really—based on whether they belong to the same ethnic group as me. As I said while testifying before the House Ed/Workforce Committee in May on the toxicity of race essentialism, the color of my skin isn’t determinative of my worldview.

Read Isabella’s brilliant essay, “Mamdani’s Vibes Campaign” here:

How did Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old socialist, win NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary? He “blended culture and politics into a lifestyle brand.” Indeed, Mamdani’s campaign “became the hottest club in town,” writes MI senior multimedia producer @IsabellaRedjai for @CityJournal.

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RT @CharlesFLehman: The fact that Mamdani clearly does not favor the criminalization of homosexuality is actually a good example of second-….

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Mamdani’s mother is a world-famous, Academy Award-nominated Bollywood director worth tens of millions of dollars. His father is a chaired professor at Columbia. He is, in effect, a perpetual theatre kid who’s pretending to be “Third World.” It’s all so, so performative + stupid.

Alright, but that doesn’t magically make a policy that is likely illegal, legal. A Supreme Court that banned racial preferences in Students for Fair Admissions, and a Department of Justice that is dedicated to enforcing the principle in that decision, certainly won’t think so.

RT @ManhattanInst: Zohran Mamdani’s victory has electrified New York’s hard left and raised questions about where the city is heading. @ni….

Kim (a Korean American) represents District 40 in the New York State Assembly, which includes parts of Flushing and has a sizable Chinese and Korean population. He got his start in then-Councilmember (now State Senator) John Liu’s office. Liu formally endorsed Mamdani on June 2.

This is further proof that Mamdani didn’t win Asians by +15 overall (per NYT) solely because of South Asian enclaves. He also won because he made inroads with NYC’s East Asian community—in part by securing an endorsement from John Liu—and encroached on Cuomo’s support there.