Diversity as a Requirement of Justice

This op-ed contribution in The Wall Street Journal -- "Judicial 'Diversity' and Justice" by Jamie Whyte -- is bound to be controversial, but the author is asking important questions about prudence, human nature, identity, and justice:

Blind Justice (bronze)

Once you believe that humans cannot achieve the degree of impartiality required to administer the law, it makes no difference if the judiciary is composed entirely of white men or perfectly reflects the mix of the population. Either way, the law will not be administered justly.

What is a society to do in its admirable pursuit of justice if it assumes that people are always irredeemably and unjustly partial along racial, gender, religious, and ethnic lines?


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