Hi everybody this is God's hat for the sad truth today I have a repeat guest and possibly

the shortest time elapse from one appearance to the next Heather McDonald McDonald, how you doing?

I'm doing great. I didn't know that God, I'm quite, I'm quite honored.

I think it was, I went. It's been a very long time, so I've been kind of a little bit melancholy and resentful but I

I think it was January 22 that you made your inaugural appearance but let me

reread for those of you who don't know Heather the few people who don't know you

you're the Thomas W Smith fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of

the Institute Institute City Journal you're an attorney by training and a New York Times best selling

author. The book that we're going to be talking about today that was released this

year is titled, When Race Trumps Merit how the pursuit of equity sacrifices excellence

destroys beauty and threatens lives so true but some of your earlier books let me just

mention them very quickly some of them are anthologies, others are

you know straight books. The burden of bad ideas how modern intellectuals miss shape our

society are cops racist, the immigration solution co-authored with Victor Davis Hanson who's been on this show and Stephen Malanga, the war on cops and your previous book prior to this one the diversity delusion. Did I cover all the key points from your bio do you want to add anything? No no let's get on to it. It's too boring. Thank you. Okay. So I guess maybe before we delve into the book or maybe it's a good segue to your latest book,

since we last spoke January 2022, so it's about a year in three months,

has the infestation of parasitic ideas gotten, you know, worse?

No difference or it has improved.

Where are we?

It's worse.

I'm sure God, you're seeing it as much as I'm. where are we? It's worse.

I'm sure God, you're seeing it as much as I am on a practically daily basis.

There's some preposterous omission from an academic medical organization, a scientific organization proclaiming itself racist proclaiming science

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