All Things with Kim Strassel: Taking On DEI
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:14.9 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast. Welcome to All Things |
| 0:23.4 | with Kim Strassel. President Trump roared into office and immediately set about dismantling the federal |
| 0:30.2 | government's diversity, equity, and inclusion infrastructure, leveling a blow at a pernicious |
| 0:35.8 | movement that has seeped into our institutions in recent |
| 0:39.1 | years. And joining us this week is a man who knows all about the viciousness of that movement, |
| 0:44.8 | Ilya Shapiro. Ilya in 2022 dared to send out a tweet about Joe Biden in the Supreme Court, |
| 0:51.3 | was targeted for it by DEI and ideological opponents and his position at Georgetown |
| 0:56.6 | Law School put in doubt his life turned upside down. |
| 1:00.1 | Ilya, who is now a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan |
| 1:04.3 | Institute, has just published a book, Lawless, the Miseducation of America's Elites, |
| 1:10.0 | in which he recounts his experience, but also |
| 1:13.0 | dissects what's gone wrong in America's law schools and how we fix it. Welcome, Ilya. Great to be |
| 1:18.7 | with you, Kim, and thanks again to you and your colleagues at the journal who were so supportive of me |
| 1:23.7 | personally and are all on top of this important issue plaguing America. |
| 1:27.8 | Well, it was good to see you stand up to it. And by the way, congrats on the book. I know how |
| 1:32.3 | hard they are to get out. Why don't you just start by briefly reminding listeners what did |
| 1:37.9 | happen to you in 2022 when that mob came after you? Right. So it was actually three years ago today, as we're recording this, |
| 1:45.8 | that the infamous tweet that elevated my brand, if you will, and became the seed for what |
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