Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast.

This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

This week's special episode features audio from last week's events celebrating the release of Heather McDonald's

important new book, When Race Trump's Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifice Is Excellence,

destroys beauty, and threatens lives. Heather is the Manhattan Institute's Thomas W. Smith fellow

and a long time City Journal contributing editor.

We hope you enjoy it.

Good evening, everyone.

Thanks for joining us to note the release of Win Race Trump's Merit,

how the pursuit of equity sacrifices excellence

destroys beauty and threatens lives. I'm Brian Anderson. I'm the editor of City Journal,

and it's my honor to introduce the book's author, Heather McDonald.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Heather is the Manhattan Institute's Thomas W. Smith Fellow.

She's a contributing editor of City Journal, who has written for the magazine almost since its inception.

And her byline appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal and many other leading publications.

She's also the author of the bestsellers, The War on Cops, and the Diversity Delusion.

Just for Kix, I asked Chat GTP who the most influential city journal writers are,

and Heather's name headed the list.

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