DEI Henchmen Continue to Threaten Florida’s Freedoms August 07, 2025
In June, champions of liberty in Florida and across the country rejoiced when the state university system’s board of governors, in a decisive 10-6 vote, rejected the candidacy of former University of Michigan president and noted DEI theorist Santa J....
How DEI Bureaucrats Control University Hiring July 08, 2025
In early 2021, Carma Gorman, an art history professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the designated “diversity advocate” for a faculty search committee, emailed John Yancey, the College of Fine Arts’ associate dean of diversity, seeking app...
DEI: The Democrats’ Concrete Shoes June 05, 2025
Democrats think they need a Joe Rogan of their own when what they actually need is a Christopher Rufo.Today Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and just last week he received a prestigious Bradley Prize from one of the American right’...
Richard Bernstein Warned Us About DEI April 18, 2025
Decades before terms like “virtue signaling,” “anti-racism,” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” became ubiquitous, one author foresaw how they would come to dominate American universities and other elite institutions. Richard Bernstein, an esteem...
Jackie Robinson Would Be Appalled April 16, 2025
Play a stupid game, get a stupid prize. This is true in baseball as with many other contests. March and April have so far been one long, moronic bonanza. It begins with the boogeyman du jour, a once-nebulous acronym imbued with the weight of umpteen ...
Was Jackie Robinson a DEI Hire? April 07, 2025
Do our current debates over DEI mean that we now have to relitigate all of America’s history? To look at recent headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking so....
Game Over March 25, 2025
The Trump Administration wasted no time fulfilling their promise to slash diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) infrastructures. Within a month of the inaugural, the President signed an executive order demolishing these regimes within numerous feder...
The Artificial Culture March 06, 2025
I'll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as Politico, which has received federal subscription payments from agencies ...
The Five Dogmas of DEI March 05, 2025
The efforts of the Trump administration to purge DEI (“diversity, equity and inclusion”) programs from the federal government bureaucracy have revealed an enormous amount of confusion about what DEI actually is (or was). In part this is due to the wa...
How to Defeat DEI February 06, 2025
Many conservatives have objected strongly to the spate of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives undertaken by many schools, corporations, and government agencies over the last decade. Elon Musk recently claimed that “DEI means people DIE...
The End of DEI January 24, 2025
Last February, my book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America was published. In it, I argued that color blindness—the principle that people should be treated without regard to their race—should guide American public policy. For...
The Unbearable Burden January 17, 2025
You already have an opinion on this man. You may like him, you may dislike him. You may have a long list of gripes about things he has said or things you imagine he has said: “He claimed that dragons are real! He wanted to give bride-slaves to incels...
Zuckerberg Opts for Free Speech—After Thinking It Over January 16, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to “get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram” marks an astonishing turnaround in the long, twilight struggle over information in the digital age. In this conflict, it should be noted, Zuckerber...
Burying Settler Colonialism's Ideologiekritik January 07, 2025
In his clearly written, concise little work , Adam Kirsch has done for settler colonialism what John Fonte did for “transnational progressivism” at the turn of the century, Peter W. Wood and Phillip W. Magness did for The 1619 Project in 2020, and Jo...
DEI Fellows and the Weird Wish Lists of Literary Agents December 02, 2024
As big companies like Walmart shuffle their DEI initiatives out of view, others are holding fast and keeping them out front....