America's Equity Obsession: An Interview with Heather Mac Donald

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Leading American institutions have adopted a simple ideological explanation for the nation’s perceived ills: systemic racism. Why are black Americans overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in C-suites? Why do members of different groups tend to perform differently on standardized tests? From the concert hall to the faculty lounge to the corporate boardroom, our leaders insist that racial disparities can be fixed only with racial discrimination traveling under the banner of “equity.” That threatens not only American excellence but also the signal achievements of Western Civilization, according to Heather Mac Donald, author of When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. In this wide-ranging interview, Mac Donald will join City Journal editor Brian C. Anderson to discuss her new book, which exposes the hollowness of America’s equity obsession. Mac Donald will show how simplistic disparate-impact thinking jeopardizes scientific progress, destroys public order, and poisons the appreciation of art and culture. Click the link to purchase Heather's new book: https://www.amazon.com/When-Race-Trumps-Merit-Sacrifices/dp/1956007164