A collection of 19 posts
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Eric Kaufmann about his new report, ‘The Equity-Excellence Trade-Off: A Study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program’
A new report on the Canada Research Chairs program analyses the reduced standards applied to scholars belonging to ‘equity groups.’
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create.
In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California.
Gen X is young enough to take civil rights and integration for granted—but old enough to appreciate how much progress America has made
Was Liz Truss Britain’s first affirmative-action prime minister?
Are racial preferences in university admissions really dead?
In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT.
“NIH Stands Against Structural Racism in Biomedical Research.” This was the title of a statement released on March 1st, 2021, by Francis S. Collins, who was then the Director of the National Institutes of Health. The statement continued: As a science agency, we know that bringing diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and
A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives.