Heather Mac Donald

“The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.”

“But a married spouse at whatever income level is almost always going to improve the economy of a household over a lifetime, whether that spouse is adding the proceeds of a minimum-wage job or the inestimable value of being a stay-at-home parent while the other one works.”

“Any claim that our fighting forces are not reaching their maximum potential because females are not included is absurd.”

“The rising tide of single-parent households threatens American society.”

“Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder.”

“Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical theater, which sent a previously undiscovered current coursing through the body, demanding outlet.”

“Females have always been the biggest consumers of spiritual hoaxes such as astrology, crystals, seances, and other metaphysical claims about the world that rest simply on assertion rather than scientific proof.”

“Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda.”

“Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.”

“It is, at the very least, ironic that we are requiring men to behave with more respect for female sensibilities at the same time that the combat gender-integrators are insisting that women on the frontlines will be and should be given no special consideration.”

“Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.”

“The enemy capture of female soldiers during a hot war will in fact provoke even greater than usual political pressure to quickly rescue them, if necessary overriding sounder but more time-consuming strategies.”

“Any female who thinks that she needs a female in front of her in order to learn as much as she can, or to envision a career in a particular field, has declared herself a follower rather than a pioneer - and a follower based on a characteristic irrelevant to intellectual achievement.”

“The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college students, it just redistributes them to schools for which they are actually qualified, rather than catapulting them into academic environments where they will inevitably struggle.”

“Strong women together create a special vibe and special power, we are told; thus the ongoing existence of all-female schools and clubs at a time when any remaining all-male organizations are in the crosshairs.”

“Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.”

“I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.”

“Students regularly act out little psycho-dramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets who use the occasion to expand their dominion.”

“Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.”

“Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment for crucial members of the Democratic base.”