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Heather Mac Donald\xa0joins\xa0Brian Anderson\xa0to discuss how universities and the scientific community are being pressured to alter the gender and racial balance in STEM\xa0disciplines--science, technology, engineering, and math--and the implications for\xa0the\xa0American future.

For decades,\xa0multiculturalism, quotas, and identity politics have been pervasive in\xa0humanities departments at most major universities--but not in scientific fields. Now that's changing, as the identity-politics obsession has penetrated\xa0STEM programs, and administrators, professors, and other officials attempt\xa0to increase the number of women and minorities in the field, by almost any means necessary. As\xa0Mac Donald writes, this pressure is "changing how science is taught and how scientific qualifications are evaluated. The results will be disastrous for scientific innovation and for American competitiveness."

Read Heather Mac Donald's essay, "How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences," in the Spring 2018 Issue of\xa0City Journal.