Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of the Sunday Special here on Human

Events.

Now we talk a lot about on the program the collapse of complex systems.

We've really seen an acceleration of this in the last two to three years.

Why is this?

Why do complex systems collapse?

How do complex systems collapse?

Well, as the famous quote goes, gradually and then suddenly.

Heather McDonald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute of Contributing

Editor of City Journal and a New York Times bestselling author.

And she has a new book when race trumps merit.

In the wake of George Floyd's death, all of the major institutions of American society

and culture from corporations, universities, to media and entertainment to the arts and

sciences have embraced the view that the only way to reckon with would of course exist

is systemic racism.

And that's to ensure equality, equality of outcome.

We must put diversity and the needs of diversity ahead of every single other expectation in our

world.

No system, no standard is more important of a metric than to measure our civilization

by that of diversity because diversity is our strength, no matter the consequences.

And so in response to this new what we've called here on the program, sort of a civic religion,

we take it as a matter of faith that this must be the new orientation of our entire society.

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