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When race trumps merit : how the pursuit of equity sacrifices excellence, destroys beauty, and threatens lives / Heather Mac Donald.

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ISBN: 9781956007169
Physical Description: 319 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Nashville, TN : DW Books, a division of the Daily Wire, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023
Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-319)
Formatted Contents: Introduction: A cultural revolution -- Overview: the bias fallacy -- Part I: Science and medicine: Medicine's racial reckoning -- How 'diversity' subverts science -- Part II: Culture and arts: The crusade against classical music -- Scapegoats and the rise of mediocrity -- Making Beethoven woke -- Can opera survive the culture wars? -- The revolution comes to Juilliard -- The swamping of Swan Lake -- The demise of the docent -- Museums apologize for art -- An art museum cancels art -- Abstainers -- Part III: Law and order: -- A new crime wave -- The road to anarchy -- On double standards -- A grim-and ignored-body count -- Mass shootings, hate crimes, and race -- The Chauvin trial and its aftermath -- Conclusion: Saving meritocracy, saving a civilization.