Diversity - Quillette

A young Evelina smiles behind a birthday cake. Background of a Portuguese Marxist protest.

DEI Without the Dogma

A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry.

Evelina Silveira

28 Oct 2024 · 13 min read

The UC’s Corner-Office Revolutionary

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.

Steven Brint

9 Apr 2024 · 24 min read

At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life

In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT.

Margaret Wente

2 Dec 2022 · 11 min read

Diversity and Its Discontents

The public conversation about demographic change is hypocritical and destructive.

Bo Winegard

3 Jun 2022 · 12 min read

The Problem with the Diversity Dividend

The last decade has seen Corporate Social Responsibility metastasize into what has become known, derisively, as “woke capitalism”—a new vision of companies as agents of radical social change. The outward face of this shift has been a torrent of adverts and products laced with political messages. Ben and Jerry’

William Malcolmson

2 Mar 2022 · 8 min read

The Pretext of Diversity in American Universities

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.

Kenneth R. Pike

6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read

Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity

The available numbers don’t tell us if there was any evidence of systemic bias in the underlying grant criteria, or in the evaluation of applications against those criteria.

Lawrence M. Krauss

17 Dec 2021 · 6 min read

George Makari's ‘Of Fear and Strangers’—A Review

French conservative radio host Éric Zemmour is mounting a presidential run, seeking to steal the mantle of right-wing populism from Marine Le Pen. Not only does the 63-year-old firebrand want to limit the number of immigrants who can come to France—a standard campaign promise for politicians of this type—

Zaid Jilani

8 Dec 2021 · 6 min read

Tales From the Gulag

The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation.

Lawrence M. Krauss

2 Nov 2021 · 11 min read

What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?

People differ from one another in many different ways.

Justin P. McBrayer

6 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology

But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.

Constantin Polychronakos

5 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

In Defence of the Past

Whether it is because we got things wrong or because we got them right, the past is our servant, the key to a richer future and higher states of consciousness.

RJ Smith

6 Sep 2019 · 6 min read

Is Surging Hate Crime in the UK Overcooked?

Hate crime now appears as a political crime, an outrage against social justice. There is a good case for saying that actual incidents of genuine hate crime should be seen in this way.

Ben Cobley

18 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

Want to Change the World? First, You Have to Listen to It

In rhyming this off, we’re “raising awareness” about the collective action that good citizens can take in the face of a repellant ideology.

Irshad Manji

26 Feb 2019 · 5 min read

My Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage.

Lee Jussim

24 Feb 2019 · 7 min read