Heather macdonald diversity book

Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has written a disturbing book, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. The destructive effects the campus diversity movement she chronicles is having on higher education are obviously disturbing, but so is the fact that so many people who claim to be teaching today’s students critical thinking skills are taking the absurdities of the movement seriously.

The bulk of the book is contained in three parts: Race, Gender, and Bureaucracy.

The first part concerns what would seem to be well-intended attempts to improve education opportunities for minorities who have suffered from slavery and other historical indignities in America by reducing their admission requirements to colleges and universities.

However, Mac Donald argues that over time these attempts, like those of so many political programs, have expanded to the point of doing more to har