The Diversity Delusion

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

By: Heather Mac Donald

Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

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

Critic reviews

“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.

Where is the silent majority?

I say this as a progressive. Heather Mac Donald has competently documented and critiqued the current state of identity politics, ‘wokeism’ and all manner of intolerant, ignorant and bad-faith-based (student) activism which seeks to subvert the worthy and noble values our society is built upon. This is an important book and at this time (June 2020) its message is more timely than ever. I see relatively few reviews but
I hope people are reading this and authors like McWhorter, Steele and even the book, The Coddling of the American Mind. I don’t really understand why the left has allowed this illiberal and undemocratic element to go unchecked (White Guilt?), but it’s going to take the American public to wake up (in a different way) and challenge this threat to our academic institutions, private enterprise and civil liberties.

Great insight!

Great insight on the big business of diversity and inclusion that has created perpetual victims of the world. The information was a bit discouraging—how do we end the cycle...seems we are in a perpetually worsening loop! We have to stop dividing ourselves—let’s focus on commonalities!

great listen for those who this book is targeting.

the author tears apart the ideas that are commonly floating around college campuses today. take a listen and broaden your mind.