Heather Mac Donald – When Race Trumps Merit
Episode description
0:00 Heather’s new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives
8:20 Are racial disparities in medical school the result of racism or skills gaps?
20:03 Do we really know what causes racial disparities?
32:23 Closing racial achievement gaps begins at home
40:39 Will black doctors necessarily provide better care to black patients?
50:26 Canceling Western art
1:00:37 Heather: Colonialism cannot explain the development of art
1:05:21 The stupidity of arguments against “cultural appropriation”
1:18:24 Heather: Lack of policing is a civil rights problem
1:29:43 Is it possible for a cop to get a fair trial?
1:34:40 Race and the future of progressive DAs
Recorded April 16, 2023
Links and Readings
Heather’s new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives
Stephen Carter’s book, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray
Charles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou’s book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox
Ronald Ferguson’s learning network, The Basics
Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction
Heather’s City Journal essay, “Stirring Sounds”
Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michael Fortner’s book, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
Glenn’s conversation with Michael Fortner
James Forman Jr.’s book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Fred Siegal’s City Journal essay, “The Riot Ideology, Reborn”
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