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).

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

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

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

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12 Jul 2021 · 8 min read

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25 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

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13 Feb 2020 · 9 min read

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18 Oct 2019 · 14 min read

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

Heather Mac Donald

19 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

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

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