A Conversation with Heather Mac Donald: “More Studying and Less Sex. That Is Not Something to Be Regretted.”

The American Interest recently sat down with Heather Mac Donald to talk about her new book The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. We discussed her views on identity politics and affirmative action, Donald Trump and deconstruction—and her views on campus romance. The following transcript has been edited for clarity.

Aaron Sibarium (The American Interest): Thank you for agreeing to do this, Heather. To begin, why don’t you tell me what The Diversity Delusion is about, and what inspired you to write it at this particular moment.

Heather Mac Donald: The book is about the identity politics and victim ideology that have taken over college campuses. I was inspired to write it out of a combination of sorrow and rage. Sorrow, because I believe so strongly in the humanist mission of universities and the extraordinary privilege of being able to study the greatest works of civilization. And rage, because I see ignorant students being encouraged by faculty and campus administrators to reject the monuments of human thought on such absurd grounds as an author’s gonads and melanin.

TAI: In the book, you talk about this “metastasizing diversity bureaucracy,” saying it’s not just on campus, but that it’s spread to other institutions too. In particular, you talk a lot about businesses and tech companies indulging in identity histrionics. Do you see this ideology affecting national politics too? Has it started to affect not just private businesses and HR departments, but also the day-to-day political realities of America?

Continue reading the entire piece here at The American Interest

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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal, and the author of the bestselling War on Cops and The Diversity Delusion (available now). Follow her on Twitter here.

This piece originally appeared in The American Interest