On this episode of Nuts World, on Thursday, June 29th, the Supreme Court ruled in two cases

brought by students for Fair Admission Zinc. The cases were students for Fair Admission

Zinc versus the University of North Carolina and students for Fair Admission Zinc versus

the President and Fellow of Harvard College. In the Supreme Court's syllabus for the case,

they say, quote, both Harvard and UNC employ a highly selective admissions process to make

their decisions. Admission to each school can depend on the student's grades,

recommendation letters, or extracurricular involvement. It can also depend on their race.

The question presented is whether the admission systems used by Harvard College and UNC

are lawful under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. In a 63-rolling,

the Supreme Court banned race-conscious college admissions. My guest today has a new book out

when race trumps merit and it couldn't be time-leader. So I'm really pleased to welcome my guest,

a brilliant academic and student of America, Heather McDonald. She has the Thomas W. Smith Fellow

at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and a New York Times best-selling author.

Heather, welcome and thank you for joining me on NITS World.

Oh, Speaker Gingrich, it's a such a pleasure. Thank you for your service to the country

and for continuing in your crusade for truth and some sanity in the American Republic.

It's interesting. The timing you have here, I say this is a fellow author, could not be better.

I gather that it began writing when race trumps merit long before these cases appeared

in front of the Supreme Court. What prompted you to write this particular book?

A combination of sorrow and rage, Speaker Gingrich, sorrow that the things that I love the most,

which is the highest accomplishments of Western civilization, whether it's classical music,

rationality or the scientific method, are being torn down in the name of a lie, which is that

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