Black Americans on the Rise Before Affirmative Action

Jason Riley makes his living by his pen — and wastes no ink or time mincing words.

“There’s a lot of intellectual cowardice going on in the country right now, and it’s a product, I think, of the ascendance of progressivism,” he tells The Post in an interview about his new book, “The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed.”