In conversation, she has the wide-eyed look of someone perpetually amazed by what she considers the philosophical lunacy of contemporary culture. When she began her studies in linguistics and comparative literature at Yale University in the 1970s, theories on race, gender and diversity were already in full sway, most of which taught that truth is illusive at best. Mac Donald graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1978. Two years later, by the time she had earned her master's degree in English on a Mellon fellowship at Cambridge University, the transition from language to identity politics was complete. Now you have literature professors bragging they never read books.
People write law-review articles about the stiffness of their hair.
It's all, 'Let's beat up on the whites because they enslaved people of color.