We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Doshinsky, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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We're joined today by Heather McDonald.

She is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of

City Journal.

More importantly, for the purposes of this conversation, she's out with a new book.

It's called When Race Trump's Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence,

destroys beauty and threatens lives.

Heather, thank you for joining us.

Emily, it's an absolute honor to be with you.

Thank you.

Of course, this book is organized into three different parts and each is sort of

individually terrifying, but I'll just break it down.

Science and medicine, culture and arts and law and order.

I want to start by just asking you if you could tell us a little bit about the history

of disparate impact because this seems to be the thread that you weave through all three

of those categories.

This is kind of a poison pill, a cultural poison pill that is wreaking havoc on these

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