Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
Erec Smith
· 9 min read
Diversity
A collection of 19 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
Diversity and Its Discontents
The public conversation about demographic change is hypocritical and destructive.
Bo Winegard
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?
People differ from one another in many different ways.
Justin P. McBrayer
· 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
· 9 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 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
· 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
· 5 min read