Heather Mac Donald

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of ‘When Race Trumps Merit’ (DW Books, 2023).

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A Kiss Is Just a Kiss

The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.

Heather Mac Donald

11 Sep 2023 · 8 min read

Bastardizing Beethoven

From Fidelio to The Soldier’s Tale, some of history’s greatest compositions are being co-opted as social-justice propaganda

Heather Mac Donald

17 May 2023 · 9 min read

Dismantle DEI Ideology

The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.

Heather Mac Donald

26 Mar 2023 · 15 min read

Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures

The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.

Heather Mac Donald

12 Jul 2021 · 9 min read

Podcast #155: Heather Mac Donald on The Juilliard School's Strange Anti-Racist Meltdown

Quillette / Heather Mac Donald

27 Jun 2021 · 15 min read

Race and False Hate Crime Narratives

Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”

Heather Mac Donald

25 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

Yale against Western Art

Once word got out that this year would be the curtain call for the two introductory Western art courses, students stampeded to enroll.

Heather Mac Donald

13 Feb 2020 · 10 min read

The Defenestration of Domingo

Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.

Heather Mac Donald

18 Oct 2019 · 15 min read

Borking Neomi Rao

The scene, in other words, was all set for Kamala Harris to underline the powerlessness of women during Rao’s confirmation hearings.

Heather Mac Donald

12 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

The Hysterical Campus

When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry.

Heather Mac Donald

19 Sep 2018 · 11 min read

The Death of the Author and the End of Empathy

The Nation’s editors are now taking aim at language itself, reducing the complexity of human communication to a primitive understanding of words.

Heather Mac Donald

2 Aug 2018 · 7 min read

Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong

The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.

Heather Mac Donald

21 Mar 2016 · 11 min read