Earlier this year, Columbia president Lee Bollinger affirmed his commitment to promoting intellectual diversity at the Morningside Heights campus. It's difficult, however, to see how that commitment can co-exist with the $15 million "diversity" hiring initiative announced earlier this week. Although superficially comparable to Harvard's $50 million pledge to increase the number of women among its faculty, the Columbia program is different in four important—and disturbing—ways. 1.) Bollinger isn't Larry Summers. Regardless of the propriety of Summers' original remarks, his subsequent reaction—apologizing profusely, admitting that his statement was misguided—could be construed as an admission by Harvard's leadership that it had...