The Diversity Delusion

How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

De: Heather Mac Donald

Narrado por: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

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.

©2018 Heather Mac Donald (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“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

"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

Insightful reading

Shows the shift in current society and colleges. For me it a sad commentary on the waste of scarce educational resources.

very informative!

very informative essential for anyone wanting to understand today's identity politics and the subversion of art institutions of learning

Worth Every Minute

So many stories in the News don't make sense anymore. How can people act like this? How can we treat each other so poorly? Why are race relations so poor? Heather Mac Donald explains this in vivid detail.

Interesting look into today's colleges

A good look into today's colleges and how the progressi diversity programs are holding students back.

Excellent

A riveting and brutal takedown of the cancers gr gay have attacked academic integrity in the USA.

The Diversity Delusion

Heather McDonald demonstrates by example the sad state of affairs in our colleges today. Logic and reason is supplanted by promoting tribalism identity politics and attacking Western culture. Why does the left (who control most education in this country) hate history and the United States?

BOLDLY TELLING THE TRUTH

I love that the author so boldly risks the wrath of the left by telling the naked truth. There need to be more voices like this lifting above the din.

The delusion of diversity best explains how out of whack issues really are

This book leaves me with one question only. How will will America survive 30-40 years from now with such misplaced priorities unless there is a significant change/reversal in how we approach education?

A great read

I sure wasn't aware of this level of madness in academia. I shall draw my conclusions and read the mission statements of my sons and daughters potential Colleges very carefully before I send them there.

Thank You, Heather MacDonald

I have two great kids bound for college. My wife and I graduated from University of Washington in 95. Times have changed a bit. I keep wondering why the heck would I send them off to these corrupt institutions to brainwash them with shallow postmodern nonsense where everyone is oppressed in some way and humans are a cancer on the planet. It's a sick filter to teach young people. This is a good book on my journey to coach my children in the right direction. There are still pockets of greatness out there. It's just that your on your own more these days when surrounded by this stuff in Seattle. It's the big dilemma of the information age: YOYO choosing the right filters.

Best concrete takeaway for me: I now have a $160 unlimited subscription to The Great Courses Plus. It's a fantastic value! And I'm sharing it with my 16 year old son.