The Ideology of Academic Insanity

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I think we live in a world of sort of elite institutions. I don't know a single state's university system that is not as pervaded by diversity bureaucrats, by all of the victimology studies. And also, to the extent that in middle America, it's corporate businesses, chains that they're shopping from,. Those corporations no matter where they are and look at Disney are absolutely captured by this anti-racist ideology. But maybe people out in the so-called flyover country are not as touched by all of this churning and chest beating as everybody else. But I would say it's coming.

Shermer and Mac Donald discuss: race as America’s original sin • civil rights • equality vs. equity • disparate impact • overt racism vs. systemic racism • why Blacks make less money, own fewer and lower quality homes, work in less prestigious jobs, hold fewer seats in the Senate and House of Representatives, run fewer Fortune 500 companies • race and science, medicine, classical music, opera, Juilliard, Swan Lake, museums, and the law • crime and mass shootings • George Floyd and race riots.

Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion. Her new book is When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.