Heather Mac Donald

“Mandatory stints in the private economy before college enrollment could do wonders for study skills.”

“I don't know a single conservative donor who is not fervently trying to improve urban schools or provide scholarships in order to liberate pupils from that educational wasteland.”

“Welfare reform was a good-faith effort to break the cycle of intergenerational dependence.”

“The open-borders Right regularly insists that immigrants and their children are assimilating at a brisk clip. It would be nice to see them advocating as well, then, an English-only practice in all government communications.”

“Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.”

“Moreover, Hispanics' sympathy for big government represents a cultural predilection as well as an economic one.”

“European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!”

“But in fact it makes a lot of sense to have a Blue Lives Matter movement because officers are putting their lives on the line every day.”

“This ideal of the Socratic academy is so reasonable that it may seem foolish to quibble with it. Of course, students should engage with ideas that they disagree with rather than silencing anything that challenges their worldview.”

“Communities do not benefit from criminals in their midst.”

“The inevitable campaign for 'gender balance' in Silicon Valley will also be indifferent to the fact that females are fast surpassing males in other sectors of the U.S. economy.”

“There are virtually no females who would be able to lug a fallen male solider weighing 200 pounds naked, before donning battle equipment, 200 yards out of the line of fire.”

“Hispanics' support for the Democratic economic agenda, both in California and nationally, stems in part from their receipt of government assistance.”

“The wider public is clueless about the social breakdown in high-crime areas and its effect on street life.”

“The pressure to take irrelevant characteristics like race and sex into account in academic science is dangerous enough. But Silicon Valley continues to remake itself in the image of the campus diversity bureaucracy.”

“If Republicans want to change their stance on immigration, they should do so on the merits, not out of a belief that only immigration policy stands between them and a Republican Hispanic majority.”

“A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'”

“The Obama Justice Department put more police departments under federal control for alleged systemic bias than any previous administration had.”