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.

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