The ‘Diversity’ Sham: At New York University, intellect gives way to ritualized emotion.

James Taranto writes at the Wall Street Journal: “. . . there is reason to doubt whether ‘diversity,’ as practiced by American higher education today, has any educational benefits at all–never mind whether those benefits are sufficient to justify discrimination. Whatever its benefits in theory, diversity in practice is often anti-intellectual, replacing reasoned debate with ritualized expressions of phony emotion.”