Heather Mac Donald

“It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if you are a black female, and it is height of both arrogance and condescension to think that somebody can be type casted on the base of.”

“Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the real of destructive cultural change.”

“No cabinet official has delivered on Donald Trump's key campaign promises more resoundingly than Attorney General Jeff Sessions.”

“Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.”

“Received left-wing wisdom holds that the police cannot lower crime, only massive welfare spending and the redistribution of wealth can.”

“A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.”

“Opponents of New York City's proactive style of policing struggle mightily to downplay its most obvious benefit: the largest crime drop on record, concentrated overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.”

“Unless you think hard about political questions in our culture, you are liberal by default. You have to think your way out of liberalism.”

“In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.”

“Well, the 80s was when it started in my view. That is when you got radical multiculturalism that hit.”

“Republican politicians regularly churn out earnest policy wonkery and programs in the hope of raising more black children out of poverty. Black uplift remains an obsessive concern of white Republican philanthropists.”

“Anyone who is willing for an instant to credit the claims of astral influence is a walking demonstration of the tragic failure of science education.”

“If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.”

“American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.”

“Ideally, informal social controls, above all the family, preserve public order. But when the family disintegrates, the police are the second-best solution for protecting the law-abiding.”

“Significantly reorienting our immigration system towards skilled workers and away from unskilled aliens should be a non-negotiable quid pro quo for amnesty.”

“Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.”

“The far Right's identity politics are the mirror image of that dominant left-wing ideology, which sees the world exclusively through the lens of race and sex.”

“For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western civilization is endemically sexist, and encouraging in their students ever-more-delusional forms of victimhood.”

“A proper respect for female difference is one of the great civilizing disciplines; a society that truly treated males and females as equal, interchangeable parts would be not worth living in.”