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Does your workplace have too few black people in top jobs? It's racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It's racist. Does your local museum employ too many white women? It's racist, too.
After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to "systemic racism." How else explain why blacks are overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in C-suites and faculty lounges, their leaders asked?
The official answer for those disparities is "disparate impact," a once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world. Any traditional standard of behavior or achievement that impedes exact racial proportionality in any enterprise is now presumed racist. Medical school admissions tests, expectations of scientific accomplishment in the award of research grants, the enforcement of the criminal law-all are under assault, because they have a "disparate impact" on underrepresented minorities.
When Race Trumps Merit provides an alternative explanation for those racial disparities. It is large academic skills gaps that cause the lack of proportional representation in our most meritocratic organizations and large differences in criminal offending that account for the racially disproportionate prison population.
The need for such a corrective argument could not be more urgent. Federal science agencies now treat researchers' skin color as a scientific qualification. Museums and orchestras choose which art and music to promote based on race. Police officers avoid making arrests and prosecutors decline to bring charges to avoid disparate impact on minority criminals.
When Race Trumps Merit breaks powerful taboos. But it is driven by a sense of alarm, supported by detailed case studies of how disparate-impact thinking is jeopardizing scientific progress, destroying public order, and poisoning the appreciation of art and culture. As long as alleged racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial differences, we will continue tearing down excellence and putting lives, as well as civilizational achievement, at risk.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: A Cultural Revolution
OVERVIEW: The Bias Fallacy
PART I: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
CHAPTER ONE: Medicine's Racial Reckoning
CHAPTER TWO: How 'Diversity' Subverts Science
PART II: CULTURE AND ARTS
CHAPTER THREE: The Crusade Against Classical Music
CHAPTER FOUR: Scapegoats and the Rise of Mediocrity
CHAPTER FIVE: Making Beethoven Woke
CHAPTER SIX: Can Opera Survive the Culture Wars?
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Revolution Comes to Juilliard
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Swamping of Swan Lake
CHAPTER NINE: The Demise of the Docent
CHAPTER TEN: Museums Apologize for Art
CHAPTER ELEVEN: An Art Museum Cancels Art
CHAPTER TWELVE: Abstainers
PART III: LAW AND ORDER
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A New Crime Wave
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Road to Anarchy
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: On Double Standards
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A Grim-and Ignored-Body Count
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Mass Shootings, Hate Crimes, and Race
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Chauvin Trial and Its Aftermath
CONCLUSION: Saving Meritocracy, Saving a Civilization
