It’s a well-meaning idea that may fall victim to unintended consequences by being divisive rather than cohesive, the opposite of the mandate’s goal. And that makes ethnic studies problematic.

At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no matter their skin color or ethnic origin. Still, both race, which describes one’s physical ...

Prime minister and foreign secretary should make it abundantly clear that they will not support any such plan,' says Humza ...