Affirmative Action Is a Proxy for Intellectual Diversity

It used to be called "political correctness." It had its heyday in the 1990s, then it went underground. While we weren't paying attention, an entire architecture of speech restrictions was being built on campuses across the country. Greg Lukianoff, CEO of FIRE and co-author of the bestselling The Coddling of the American Mind, joins us to discuss what he calls the "second great age of political correctness."

When people say cancel culture isn't real, are they arguing in good faith? One part of the story is the lack of diversity in American universities—in disciplines like anthropology, the ratio of liberal to conservative professors is 42 to 1. If we care so much about diversity, why don't we seem to care viewpoint diversity?

Required Reading:

- "The Second Great Age of Political Correctness" by Greg Lukianoff (Reason)

- "How To Keep Your Corporation Out of the Culture War" by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff (Persuasion)

- "The Polarization Spiral" by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff (Persuasion)

- The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

- The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri

- Manliness by Harvey Mansfield