The When Race Trumps Merit

Auteur

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor at City Journal, and the 2005 recipient of the Bradley Prize. Mac Donald received a BA from Yale University, an MA from Cambridge University, and a JD from Stanford University. Her work has covered a range of topics, from higher education and immigration to policing and race relations. Mac Donald’s writing has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times. She is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Diversity Delusion and the New York Times bestseller The War on Cops.

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Résumé

In the wake of George Floyd’s death, all the major institutions of American society—from corporations to the media to academia—have embraced the view that the only way to reckon with systemic racism is to ensure equality of outcome.

 

Best-selling author and Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald exposes how the application of such a radical theory is not only devaluing our academic standards but is also poised to cause real harm and damage by lowering standards in science and medicine, undermining military preparedness, and compromising the safety of our cities—and will ultimately eradicate Western civilization as we know it.

Contenu

INTRODUCTION: A Cultural Revolution

 

OVERVIEW: The Bias Fallacy

 

PART I: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

CHAPTER ONE: Medicine’s Racial Reckoning

CHAPTER TWO: How ‘Diversity’ Subverts Science

 

PART II: CULTURE AND ARTS

CHAPTER THREE: The Crusade Against Classical Music

CHAPTER FOUR: Scapegoats and the Rise of Mediocrity

CHAPTER FIVE: Making Beethoven Woke

CHAPTER SIX: Can Opera Survive the Culture Wars?

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Revolution Comes to Juilliard

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Swamping of Swan Lake

CHAPTER NINE: The Demise of the Docent

CHAPTER TEN: Museums Apologize for Art

CHAPTER ELEVEN: An Art Museum Cancels Art

CHAPTER TWELVE: Abstainers

 

PART III: LAW AND ORDER

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A New Crime Wave

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Road to Anarchy

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: On Double Standards

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A Grim—and Ignored—Body Count

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Mass Shootings, Hate Crimes, and Race

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Chauvin Trial and Its Aftermath

CONCLUSION: Saving Meritocracy, Saving a Civilization