Trump and the Academic Cocoon
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.
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.
Bastardizing Beethoven
From Fidelio to The Soldier’s Tale, some of history’s greatest compositions are being co-opted as social-justice propaganda
Dismantle DEI Ideology
The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.
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.
Podcast #155: Heather Mac Donald on The Juilliard School's Strange Anti-Racist Meltdown
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay speaks to City Journal writer Heather Mac Donald about how a single drama workshop caused Juilliard students to feel “traumatized,” and sparked an activist campaign aimed at undermining the elite school’s famously rigorous standards. Listen onSpotify Transcript: Jonathan Kay: Last month, writer Heather Mac Donald
Race and False Hate Crime Narratives
Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”
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.
The Defenestration of Domingo
Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.
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.
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.
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.