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By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning

America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyranny. Professors correcting grammar and spelling, or employers hiring by merit? Racist and sexist. Students emerge into the working world believing that human beings are defined by their skin color, gender, and sexual preference, and that oppression based on these characteristics is the American experience. Speech that challenges these campus orthodoxies is silenced with brute force.

The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia. Diversity commissars denounce meritocratic standards as discriminatory, enforce hiring quotas, and teach students and adults alike to think of themselves as perpetual victims. From #MeToo mania that blurs flirtations with criminal acts, to implicit bias and diversity compliance training that sees racism in every interaction, Heather Mac Donald argues that we are creating a nation of narrowed minds, primed for grievance, and that we are putting our competitive edge at risk.

But there is hope in the works of authors, composers, and artists who have long inspired the best in us. Compiling the author’s decades of research and writing on the subject, The Diversity Delusion calls for a return to the classical liberal pursuits of open-minded inquiry and expression, by which everyone can discover a common humanity.

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“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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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 York. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has canvassed a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing and “racial” profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion. Mac Donald's newest book, The War on Cops (2016), warns that raced-based attacks on the criminal-justice system, from the White House on down, are eroding the authority of law and putting lives at risk.

Other previous works include The Burden of Bad Ideas (2001), a collection of Mac Donald’s City Journal essays, details the effects of the 1960s counterculture’s destructive march through America’s institutions. In The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan than Today’s (2007), coauthored with Victor Davis Hanson and Steven Malanga, she chronicles the effects of broken immigration laws and proposes a practical solution to securing the country’s porous borders. In Are Cops Racist? (2010), another City Journal anthology, Mac Donald investigates the workings of the police, the controversy over so-called racial profiling, and the anti-profiling lobby’s harmful effects on black Americans.

A nonpracticing lawyer, Mac Donald clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and was an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a volunteer with the Natural Resources Defense Council. She has testified before numerous U.S. House and Senate Committees. In 1998, Mac Donald was appointed to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s task force on the City University of New York. In 2004, she received the Civilian Valor Award from the New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers. In 2008, Mac Donald received the Integrity in Journalism Award from the New York State Shields, as well as the Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration from the Center for Immigration Studies. In 2012, she received the Quill & Badge Award for Excellence in Communication from the International Union of Police Associations.

A frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, and other TV and radio programs, Mac Donald holds a B.A. in English from Yale University, graduating with a Mellon Fellowship to Cambridge University, where she earned an M.A. in English and studied in Italy through a Clare College study grant. She holds a J.D. from Stanford University Law School.

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Hank

Should be required reading by all US university faculty and administrators

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018

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As in my “intro”, this book should be required reading for ALL faculty and administrators on US campuses. I literally read it in one sitting - a rarity for me to do with a non-fiction book. A cliché most certainly but I have an interest in this sector for several reasons. One is as part of a past multi-career life, I served as a tenured professor at a large US SE university. Second I just revisited my own effete New England campus for my 50th reunion that was prefaced with my letters to fund raisers “why” my donations have and will remain minimal citing many of the author’s themes along with attending alumni lectures that attempted to justify so much of what is examined in this book.
Ms Mac Donald adroitly puts “facts” to the fiction, failures and misdirection of so much of the nonsense now occurring on campuses (and very expensive failures too) instead of the actual work of education. Included are data driven critiques of the never ending quest for diversity (and THE big business of this venture), the often destructive nature of these policies, the extrapolations to society at large of this non-stop emphasis, examining the “rape culture” that is said to be pervasive and so forth. And sadly in many ways it is a poignant eulogy for higher education in our country with nostalgic remembrances and allusions to the loss of what is now discarded from curricula given its centuries of formulations of bodies of academic work by a “ patriarchy of white heteronormative males ( I think I got the nomenclature right ?). The writer certainly has a strong base for this comparative lament given her own personal education pedigree of elite universities - Yale, Cambridge and Stanford.
I have a friend who is now a trustee at my old college and I will recommend that he do just this - ask the faculty and administrators that he meets in those lofty interactions. But the predictable reaction ? I say they’ll recoil with crossed fingers and garlic cloves around their necks with a silver spike ready to go In fact I would expect THE same type of reaction to this book “on campus” as Ms Macdonald received in her attempts to speak in the University of California system as she describes. She too will be “Amy Wax-ed” or whacked ( read the book ) but this time with book burnings of her work on campus. It would be so consistent of current campus times and the hypocritical respect for diversity of thought and tolerance supposedly resident in these environments.

PS - Heck I bet I get “censored” by the Amazon reviewers frankly for this review. That too is a manifestation of the carry overs from current education directions on campus creeping outside the ivy walls. I would imagine I have “micro aggressive” words and thought so push the “delete” button.

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Dennis M. Patterson

A compelling read

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2018

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As a knowledge worker, I have seen first-hand the effects of the diversity industry. Everything it touches is denuded. Mac Donald marshalls the facts and evidence to make the case that there is no substance to the claims of Implicit Bias and that the "diversity" crowd is a rent-seeking collection of phonies. I fear purging this nonsense will take more than this courageous book.

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Geographer

Frightening look at “Diversity” and its baleful influence on American institutions

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2018

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Mac Donald’s book addresses the impact that “Diversity” has on the Universities and American culture. Universities are diverting more and more money and power to useless diversity programs. As with any bureaucracy, once these departments are set up they are almost impossible to discard. Mac Donald points out that Universities such as Yale and UCLA are the safest spot for minority students and women in the world, yet they are often accused of permitting horrible crimes against each group. Mac Donald skewers the left’s arguments for more racial and gender-based diversity on campuses.

Her book is also a defense of the western canon and civilization. In an interesting chapter she discusses the success of the Great Courses program. There clearly is a desire for classical liberal arts education in the United States and private companies are filling the void. Nonfiction bestseller lists are full of biographies of great men and accounts of the Revolution, the Civil War, WWI, WWII and other topics that are rarely taught at the University.

Mac Donald’s sharp, opinionated, often Menckenesque prose is on target and also a delight to read.

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james

Inarguably Accurate!

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018

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Having had six kids and countless nieces and nephews go through or currently attending college, Heather, one of the best authors currently writing by the way, hits it on the head! Liberal agendas and viewpoints are shoved down the throats of young impressionable kids. My daughter literally had to sit through a "white privilege" lecture and argued with the instructor to the point of tears. Most of the kids I talk to about such forced indoctrination just "get through it." That said, too many kids believe this type of "training" is the real truth. Heather breaks this down perfectly and accurately exposes the dangers of such climates on college campuses. It's impossible to argue that the libs only believe in free speech when it is their speech. Heather points out the absurdity of the overwhelming numbers of liberal professors and their sanctioning of the victim mentality such as "safe spaces." Everyone should read this book, especially those with kids ready for college.

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Stotzy

The Ivory Tower Must Fall

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2018

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I was inspired to purchase this book after having come upon a YouTube video in which the author, Heather Mac Donald, detailed some of the ideologically inspired lunacy that was taking place in modern academia. Now, this was not altogether new to me as I had been aware of such madness in universities for more than two years, but the stories she told made me wonder if the academic world was beyond saving, and, by extension, Western culture and civilisation, for this disease has spread way beyond the university campus and infects almost every institution and workplace in the West. In this wonderful book, Heather examines the many false narratives of the left - microaggressions; implicit bias training; campus rape culture - and exposes them to the light of reason. We can only hope that reason wins out...

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Inigo

An eye-opening depiction of how society is tearing itself apart.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2020

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This is eye-opening. I've always felt as a white male who up until recently identified with purely left-wing ideoligy felt that I can't comprehend race and gender biases and that they must exist to such an extent for so many people in minority groups to feel oppressed, but what if the invisible oppression is merely that? What if it doesn't exist? What are the causes for relative "failure" by minority groups and are we really trying to help them? Are they really trying to help themselves? Can differences in groups be attributed by innate differences in those groups rather than due to direct oppression from the outside Word? Is it time to demolish the idea of groups and celebrate individual responsibility? Have we become so afraid to be racist in today's world that the only safe way to live is be racist enough to identify and favour those groups we don't belong to. I'm only half way through, but already this is something I would have benefitted from 10 years ago when I was trying to understand the supposed oppression we face.

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Max Layton

Diversity Deluge

Reviewed in Canada on December 24, 2018

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A frightening tout d'horizon of the ongoing assault on Western culture. The author takes particular aim at the takeover of academia by professors and masked hooligans who hurl accusations of racism and sexism at anyone who champions traditional liberal values. A well-documented eye-opener...

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Pinko

Timely!

Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2018

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It's about time counter-points were presented. Refreshing that not everyone has jumped on the P.C. bandwagon. There is hope yet!

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paulchenpanter

sehr wichtig

Reviewed in Germany on May 7, 2019

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ein wirklich wichtiger Insiderbericht ist hier zu lesen - so überauß politisch korrekt geht es an amerikanischen Universitäten zu, ob UCLA, Berkely, Yale, Harvard, Columbia - wo das Matratzenmädel Emma S. ihre Show abzog, wie McDonald zu berichten weiss, oder ihre eigene Denunzierung als "Faschistin", als sie einer Uni-Einladung zu einer Rede folgt und von der Polizei geschützt werden musste. Wir sollten lernen und aufpassen, dass unsere Universitäten noch Orte zum Austausch freier Meinungen bleiben und nicht des "pampering", wie McDonald schreibt, des Verwöhnprogramms, mit dem privilegierte Studentengruppen umsorgt werden, sobald sie einen Verdacht auf "Diskriminierung" äußern. Für mich als ehemaligen Anti-Apartheid-AKtivisten hat sich die Spirale von einem schlechten Extrem zum anderen gedreht. Unbedingt lesen!

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