April 25, 2014 1:21PM # Two Questions, Two Answers By [Roger Pilon](https://www.cato.org/people/roger-pilon) --- SHARE As the fall-out continues from the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision earlier this week—see, in order, [Ilya’s](https://www.cato.org/blog/its-constitutional-voters-stop-their-government-discriminating-based-race), [my](https://www.cato.org/blog/reflections-schuette-v-coalition-defend-affirmative-action), and [Wally’s](https://www.cato.org/blog/further-thoughts-schuette-v-coalition) Cato@Liberty comments—I was invited late yesterday to expand, very briefly, on my earlier reflections at a site called “2paragraphs”—in particular, to discuss, in two paragraphs, how public higher education transfers wealth from the lower to the upper classes of society, and how affirmative action actually harms those it’s meant to help. You’ll find that brief discussion [here](http://2paragraphs.com/2014/04/affirmative-action-and-the-dirty-little-secret-of-public-universities/). ##### Related Tags [Education](https://www.cato.org/education), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Center for Educational Freedom](https://www.cato.org/center-educational-freedom), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).