Heather Mac Donald
Contributing Editor at City Journal
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6 days ago |
newcriterion.com | Heather Mac Donald |Gary Saul Morson |Douglas Murray |David Gress
Recent stories of note:“Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide”Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal“I learned to read at the age of five,” said Mario Vargas Llosa upon accepting his Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. “It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me.” The Peruvian novelist, essayist, and politician died last Sunday at the age of eighty-nine, and his learning to read doubtless stands as an important event for the rest of the world, too.
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3 weeks ago |
newcriterion.com | Heather Mac Donald |Douglas Murray |Gary Saul Morson |David Gress
Many years ago, I brought a friend of mine to a Marriage of Figaro in my hometown of Ann Arbor. He was the captain of the University of Michigan golf team. After the overture, he turned to me and said, “That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard.” I thought, “Well, he will never hear anything better, no matter how long he lives or how much he hears.”In the Met’s production of the opera, there is stage action during the overture—scampering around and such. Is the overture not good enough?
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3 weeks ago |
city-journal.org | Heather Mac Donald
With the resignation of Columbia University’s interim president, the academic-diversity complex seems to have sent out a warning shot: cooperation with the Trump administration will be punished. Outgoing president Katrina Armstrong claimed in her resignation letter, submitted Friday, March 28, that she had always “planned” to return to her various bureaucratic positions in Columbia’s medical schools. Quite possibly true. But the question is: For when was that return planned?
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1 month ago |
city-journal.org | Heather Mac Donald
Spring 2025 previewIt seems like just yesterday that medical institutions were touting their antiracism efforts.
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2 months ago |
nypost.com | Heather Mac Donald
President Donald Trump gestures as he is joined on stage by Vice President JD Vance after being sworn in as the 47th president. via REUTERS “Maybe this will end in another week,” sighed the cashier at a CVS store on the Upper East Side, seven days after President Trump’s inauguration.
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RT @CityJournal: The Trump administration could have allowed grants to expire quietly or declined to renew them. Instead, it has managed to…
My latest for @CityJournal on why the campus diversity regime, at the Ivy League school and elsewhere, won’t go down without a fight.
Columbia's interim president is out, but DEI's grip on academia won't loosen easily. @HMDatMI breaks down why the professional antiracists in faculties and bureaucracies won't back down without a fight. https://t.co/ljmUqu4GFT
Draining the swamp or cutting off scientific progress? My latest for @CityJournal on the NIH's funding cap for academic research: https://t.co/cyKwBgwYWN