The diversity delusion : how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture / Heather Mac Donald.

America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyranny. Professors correcting g...

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Main Author: Mac Donald, Heather (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:vi, 278 pages ; 25 cm
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505 0 |a The hysterical campus -- Elites to affirmative action voters : drop dead -- Affirmative disaster -- The microaggression farce : are we all unconscious racists? -- The campus rape myth -- Neo-victorianism on campus -- The fainting couch at Columbia -- Policing sexual desire : the #metoo movement's impossible premise -- Multiculti U. -- How identity politics is harming the sciences -- Scandal erupts over the promotion of bourgeois behavior -- The humanities and us -- Great courses, great profits -- The true purpose of the university -- From culture to cupcakes. 
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