Heather Mac Donald is the national bestselling author of The War on Cops, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. A former aspiring academic with roots in deconstruction and postmodernism, she has been the target of violent student protest for her work on policing. She holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from Cambridge in English, and a J.D. from Stanford. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Partisan Review, among other publications. She lives in New Yor
"I read every word Heather Mac Donald writes and always have. She
is brilliant and has tons of guts and is an inspiration." - Peggy
Noonan, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize Winner
for Commentary "Why should we care what happens in the Ivory Tower?
Because what happens there very soon happens everywhere. Heather
Mac Donald warns us: attend to the ideology now dominating the
humanities and social sciences. Designed to undermine the integrity
of the individual and the state alike, it does just that. The
universities have a mandate to produce informed, educated,
productive citizens. They have been transformed, instead, into
factories of ideology that mass-produce victims, certain in their
oppression, searching everywhere for oppressors to blame and to
punish. And the ranks of those deemed tyrants and persecutors
threaten to swell until every single one of us is deemed guilty in
some manner or another. Beware." - Jordan B. Peterson, bestselling
author of 12 Rules for Life
"Universities justify their privileged position by claiming to be
forums for the promotion of clarity, logic, and evidence. Yet their
own policies, affecting millions, are too often defended with
factual howlers, logical non sequiturs and mindless boilerplate.
Heather Mac Donald may not persuade you on every point, but with
her spitfire writing and scorn for nonsense she is forcing
universities to live up to their own principles." - Steven Pinker,
Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author
of Enlightenment Now "Others besides Heather Mac Donald have
indicted academia for devastating liberal education, but no one has
ever documented the damage as Mac Donald does in The Diversity
Delusion. It is crammed with facts and numbers that universities go
to great lengths to hide. How she did it is a mystery, but The
Diversity Delusion will be my master reference for anything I write
on these topics." - Charles Murray, Emeritus Scholar, American
Enterprise Institute "Not since Alan Bloom's The Closing of the
American Mind has a book so thoroughly exposed the damage done to
American institutions--particularly universities--by modern
liberalism's glib commitment to 'diversity.' Mac Donald unveils
today's true operating principle: that claims of social justice
precede the diminishment of Western greatness--a greatness that has
(and will continue to) benefit the former victims of Western
bigotry. This book is a story of what happens when too much
insecurity seeps into a great civilization." - Shelby Steele,
author of Shame, White Guilt, and The Content of Our Character
"Heather Mac Donald is one of those rare writers who can cut
through the fog of rhetoric that surrounds so many issues of our
time, and reveal the underlying reality that others conceal. Her
essays are a revelation and her books are an education. I have read
both for years and have never been disappointed." - Thomas Sowell
"Compelling...Mac Donald rightly points out that the foundational
purpose of a university, the transmission of knowledge to broaden
our view of the human experience, is being lost to an ideological
fixation on identity." - Washington Examiner
"Mac Donald...is a walking encyclopedia with a razor-sharp wit, and
she does not suffer fools gladly. [The Diversity Delusion] targets
the liberal ideologues running America's higher education system,
both exposing and debunking their agenda." - The College Fix "The
Diversity Delusion does an admirable job of dismantling liberal
academic narratives. And if anyone has earned the right to do that
without looking back, it's Heather Mac Donald." - National
Review
"No one has been more persistent, on-target, and braver in
challenging politically correct nonsense [than Mac Donald]." -
Center of the American Experiment "The Diversity Delusion should
set off alarm bells in the minds of Americans who have heard little
or nothing about the damage it is doing to the nation." - James G.
Martin Center for Academic Renewal
"With no less vigor than [William F.] Buckley, Mac Donald charges
higher education with corrupting the youth and endangering Western
culture." - The Los Angeles Review of Books
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