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Shermer and Bernstein discuss: the SCOTUS case on affirmative action and race preferences at Harvard and elsewhere \\u2022 Elizabeth Warren (Cherokee ancestry \\u2014 Bureau of Indian Affairs rejects?) \\u2022 Tiger Woods: Cablinasian (European, African, Thai, Chinese ancestry) \\u2022 George Zimmerman (Hispanic, half Hispanic, mixed-race, White Hispanic, White, or\\u2026?) \\u2022 Rachel Dolezal (NAACP official, adopted an African American identity, though has none) \\u2022 Kamala Harris (child of an Indian immigrant mother, father of mixed-African and European heritage from Jamaica) \\u2022 BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) \\u2022 ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves) \\u2022 the biology and legality of race \\u2022 the one-drop rule of race classification \\u2022 the rise of modern racial classification \\u2022 Hispanic, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Armenian, Cajun, South Asian, Arab, and Iranian categories \\u2022 American Indians/Native Americans \\u2022 race classification and reparations \\u2022 How can we achieve a race-blind society?

David E. Bernstein holds a University Professorship chair at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, where he has been teaching since 1995. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Georgetown University, William and\\xa0Mary, Brooklyn Law School, and the University of Turin. Known as a fearless contrarian, Professor Bernstein often challenges the conventional wisdom with prodigious research and sharp, original analysis. His book Rehabilitating Lochner was praised across the political spectrum as \\u201cintellectual history in its highest form,\\u201d a \\u201cfresh perspective and a cogent analysis,\\u201d \\u201cdelightful and informative,\\u201d \\u201csharp and iconoclastic,\\u201d \\u201cwell-written and destined to be influential,\\u201d and \\u201ca terrific work of historical revisionism.\\u201d Professor Bernstein blogs at the Volokh Conspiracy (the leading law professor blog) and at Instapundit.com. Professor Bernstein is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. Professor Bernstein is married and has three children of mixed Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Spanish-Jewish origin. He prefers not to classify them.