Heather Mac Donald – When Race Trumps Merit

0:00 Heather’s new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

8:20 Are racial disparities in medical school the result of racism or skills gaps?

20:03 Do we really know what causes racial disparities?

32:23 Closing racial achievement gaps begins at home

40:39 Will black doctors necessarily provide better care to black patients?

50:26 Canceling Western art

1:00:37 Heather: Colonialism cannot explain the development of art

1:05:21 The stupidity of arguments against “cultural appropriation”

1:18:24 Heather: Lack of policing is a civil rights problem

1:29:43 Is it possible for a cop to get a fair trial?

1:34:40 Race and the future of progressive DAs

Recorded April 16, 2023

Links and Readings

Heather’s new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

Stephen Carter’s book, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby

Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray

Charles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou’s book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox

Ronald Ferguson’s learning network, The Basics

Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction

Heather’s City Journal essay, “Stirring Sounds”

Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michael Fortner’s book, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment

Glenn’s conversation with Michael Fortner

James Forman Jr.’s book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Fred Siegal’s City Journal essay, “The Riot Ideology, Reborn”

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