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. I finally realized that my whole college education had been a waste, she recalls. 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. She briefly returned to Yale in 1980 for graduate work, only to be repelled by the growing radical feminism and race-baiting there. Instead, she enrolled in at Stanford University s law school, where she wrote for the review and studied with former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. She also encountered courses such as critical race theory and feminist jurisprudence that defined reason as a tool of male oppression. After clerking for a federal judge in Los Angeles, Mac Donald worked as a lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington and began to publish articles in the New Criterion, a conservative magazine.