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Category Archives: Diversity
The Peter Thiel Set
Peter Thiel (b. 1967) reads René Girard (1923-2015) as a young man at Stanford and never stops. Girard teaches him that human desire copies other desire, that crowds form by scapegoating, and that imitation drives men toward the same prizes … Continue reading
DEI Discriminates Against Whites
Steve Sailer asks the wrong question. He treats non-grasping as a cognitive failure. It is a coalitional achievement. The Bryant Rousseau case shows the operation. The hiring pool for deputy real-estate editor: a White woman, a Black man, an Asian … Continue reading
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Who Built the Machine: The Coalition Behind DEI and Its Blind Spots
The DEI apparatus in American universities did not emerge as a neutral philosophy shop. It was assembled from three distinct pipelines that later fused into a single bureaucratic system, and the ethnic and professional patterns visible in its staffing are … Continue reading
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Putting A Number On The DEI Consulting Industry
To rank DEI consulting among American industries, a distinction must be made between pure advisory fees and the total organizational spending used to maintain the network. If using the broad $106 billion figure—which includes internal staff, enterprise software, and mandatory … Continue reading
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Where the DEI Money Goes: The Financial Structure of an Industry That Has Outlasted Its Own Vocabulary
The highest earners in the DEI industry are not the people delivering the workshops. They are the people who designed the system the workshops sit inside. This distinction matters because the financial structure of the industry is also its power … Continue reading
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The Label Retreated. The Structure Remained: How Elite Corporate America Embedded Its DEI Infrastructure After the Rollback
When Google, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey announced rollbacks of explicit DEI commitments in 2025, the coverage treated the announcements as retreats. They were not retreats. They were vocabulary updates. The underlying system did not shrink. It became harder to see. … Continue reading
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What Did Michigan Get for $250 Million? Nine Years, $250 Million, and Flat Black Enrollment at the University of Michigan
In March 2025, University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced the closure of the central Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion, ending the DEI 2.0 strategic plan and redistributing student-facing services into … Continue reading
Implicit Bias Training
The implicit bias training industry has a problem it cannot easily discuss. The training does not work. This is not a controversial claim among researchers who study the question without a stake in the answer. Patricia Devine’s original implicit bias … Continue reading
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The HR Trade Assocations
The Society for Human Resource Management has more than 340,000 members. It issues the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certifications that have become standard credentials for HR professionals across American corporate life. It runs an annual conference drawing tens of thousands of … Continue reading
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The Litigation-Resistance Audit
The memo arrived on March 24, 2026. Subject line: Transition to a Litigation-Resistant Performance Framework. It went to the Chief Executive Officer. It came from Strategic Advisory. It was, in every visible respect, a serious document. The first paragraph explained … Continue reading
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