The War On Excellence IN ACADEMIA & BEYOND

TUESDAY · JULY 11, 2023 · 5 PM CHABAD JCC · 435 W MAIN

What is happening in our Law Schools and Medical Schools, and how will these changes impact society, culture, our courts and medical care? Does DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) diminish or increase “racism”? How does the politics of crime affect our safety? Join Heather Mac Donald in exploring these consequential issues.

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, 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, When Race

Trumps Merit (2023) has just been published and is an excellent addition to The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (2018), both of which argue that toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. The root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a frightening diversity bureaucracy in society and academia that will undermine American success and freedom, now and in the years to come.