Southwest Airlines Co. is basking in accolades for its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) efforts, award-winning customer service, and record-breaking quarterly revenues. Behind the scenes of that rosy picture, heartaches are afflicting Southwest, called “the airline with Heart” because of its heart-shaped logo and a corporate culture steeped in “The Golden Rule,” treating others the…
How DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Can Lead to Tyranny | Daniel Ortner
California universities are striving to have more and more diversity. Most California university jobs are asking for diversity statements, and candidates could lose out on getting the job if their diversity statement doesn’t match what the admissions office is looking for. But is this the best way to achieve more diversity? My guest is Daniel…
California Spent $500 Million on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training, Report Reveals
July 15, 2022
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California has spent up to $500 million on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in its local government, K-12 school districts, and higher education in the years between 2020 and 2022, according to a report from a nonprofit watchdog group. The Center for Organizational Research and Education (CORE) researches activist groups to report on their “funding,…
Religious Fervor Among the Woke
Commentary The woke have not only adopted the ideology of “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), and assertions such as “diversity is our strength” (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau), but adhere to these ideas not so much as preferred guidelines or scientific hypotheses, but as religious truths not to be questioned. Any misguided or…
Political Polarization Worsens in Corporate America: New Study
Executive teams of large U.S. corporations are becoming increasingly partisan, resulting in “a political polarization of corporate America,” according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. This polarization has implications for the values of firms as well, the study found. While workplace diversity in recent years has received a lot of attention, particularly…
Predictable Commencement Addresses
Commentary What comes to mind in the month of June? Weddings. Vacations (and how to pay for record high gas prices if you’re driving). Graduations. Time was when many commencement speeches at major universities were about America and its values and what graduates could expect in the future. In recent years, they have become a…
Can a Christian Flag Fly in Boston?
The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that rejecting a group’s Christian flag in Boston’s City Hall as part of a public diversity forum is unconstitutional and discriminatory. This represents another milestone case in free speech rights, which have been under attack in many recent forums, but it also underlies the logic of progressive society in…
Court Rules California’s Corporate Diversity Law Unconstitutional
April 2, 2022
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A Los Angeles court determined on Saturday that a California law requiring certain workplace boardroom quotas of underrepresented communities is unconstitutional. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit (pdf) in early October 2020 arguing that any spending of taxpayer funds or taxpayer-paid resources on the quota law is “illegal under the California Constitution.” The…
California Community Colleges Consider Diversity Quotas in Hiring, Tenure Review
March 24, 2022
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The governing board that oversees the California Community Colleges (CCC) considered March 21 including diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the employee evaluation and tenure review process amid enrollment decline, and some have expressed concern, calling it a “divisive measure”. The proposal (pdf) was introduced as part of the enrollment management strategy by Deputy Chancellor…
The Law Debased
Commentary When President Joe Biden, then still only a candidate for the presidency, promised to elevate a black woman to the Supreme Court if and when a vacancy occurred, he struck not only at the ideal of the rule of law, but also at the very possibility of human rationality itself. He was far from…
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