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  52.David Siders, Christopher Cadelago, and Laura Barron-Lopez, “To defeat Trump, Dems rethink the Obama coalition formula,” Politico.com, November 26, 2019, https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/25/race-identity-democrats-2020-electability-072959.

  53.Matt Stevens, “Read Joe Biden’s President-Elect Acceptance Speech: Full Text,” NYTimes.com, November 9, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/article/biden-speech-transcript.html.

  54.Byron York, July 15, 2020, https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1283372233730203651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1283372233730203651%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fdc-museum-graphic-whiteness-race.

  55.Ben Weingarten, “Would a President Joe Biden Institute Systemic Racism in Our Legal System?,” TheFederalist.com, October 22, 2020, https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/22/would-a-president-joe-biden-institute-systemic-racism-in-our-legal-system/.

  56.Russell Vought, “Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies,” September 4, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/M-20-34.pdf.

  57.Ibram X. Kendi, “Pass an Anti-Racist Constitutional Amendment,” Politico.com, 2019, https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/.

  58.Sheryll Cashin, “A Blueprint for Racial Healing in the Biden Era,” Politico Magazine, November 21, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/21/biden-era-racial-healing-blueprint-438900.

  59.Associated Press, “Spanberger to House Dems: Never ‘use the word “socialist” or “socialism” again,’” November 6, 2020, https://wjla.com/news/local/house-democrats-blame-losses-on-polls-message-even-trump-11-06-2020.

  60.Open Letter from New Deal Strategies, Justice Democrats, Sunrise Movement, Data for Progress, November 10, 2020, https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-b4b4-dc7f-a3fd-bdf660490000.

  CHAPTER 3: THE CREATION OF A NEW RULING CLASS

  1.Graham Kates, “Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman among dozens charged in college bribery scheme,” CBSNews.com, March 12, 2019, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-admissions-scandal-bribery-cheating-today-felicity-huffman-arrested-fbi-2019-03-12/.

  2.Kate Taylor, “By Turns Tearful and Stoic, Felicity Huffman Gets 14-Day Prison Sentence,” NYTimes.com, September 13, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/us/felicity-huffman-sentencing.html.

  3.Graham Kates, “Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman among dozens charged in college bribery scheme,” CBSNews.com, March 12, 2019, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-admissions-scandal-bribery-cheating-today-felicity-huffman-arrested-fbi-2019-03-12/.

  4.Kate Taylor, “By Turns Tearful and Stoic, Felicity Huffman Gets 14-Day Prison Sentence,” NYTimes.com, September 13, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/us/felicity-huffman-sentencing.html.

  5.Lisa Respers France, “Brands distance themselves from Lori Laughlin and daughter Olivia Jade,” CNN.com, March 14, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/entertainment/olivia-jade-cheating-scandal/index.html.

  6.Kerry Justich, “Celebrity kid called ‘spoiled’ and ‘privileged brat’ after saying she’s going to college for ‘game days’ and ‘partying,’” Yahoo.com, August 17, 2018, https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/celebrity-kid-called-spoiled-privileged-brat-saying-shes-going-college-game-days-partying-190101738.html.

  7.“Percentage of the US population who have completed four years of college or more from 1940 to 2019, by gender,” Statista.com, March 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attainment-of-college-diploma-or-higher-by-gender/.

  8.Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman, “Dismissed by Degrees,” Harvard Business School, October 2017, https://www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/Documents/dismissed-by-degrees.pdf.

  9.“Number of People with Master’s and Doctoral Degrees Doubles Since 2000,” Census.gov, February 21, 2019, https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/02/number-of-people-with-masters-and-phd-degrees-double-since-2000.html#:~:text=Since%202000%2C%20the%20number%20of,from%208.6%20percent%20in%202000.

  10.Connor Harris, “The Earning Curve: Variability and Overlap in Labor-Outcomes by Education Level,” Manhattan Institute, February 26, 2020, https://www.manhattan-institute.org/high-school-college-wage-gap?utm_source=press_release&utm_medium=email.

  11.J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (New York: HarperCollins, 2016).

  12.Charles Murray, Coming Apart (New York: Crown Forum, 2012), 16–19.

  13.Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: Norton, 1995), 6.

  14.Joseph Epstein, “Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D.,” WSJ.com, December 11, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380.

  15.Bryan Alexander, “Dr. Jill was blindsided by Wall Street Journal call to drop ‘Dr.’ title: ‘It was really the tone of it,’” USAToday.com, December 17, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/12/17/jill-biden-speaks-out-wall-street-journal-column-drop-dr-title/3952529001/.

  16.Paul A. Gigot, “The Biden Team Strikes Back,” WSJ.com, December 13, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-team-strikes-back-11607900812.

  17.Adam Harris, “America Is Divided by Education,” Atlantic, November 7, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/education-gap-explains-american-politics/575113/.

  18.Thomas Edsall, “Honestly, This Was a Weird Election,” NYTimes.com, December 2, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/biden-trump-moderates-progressives.html.

  19.Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories ([Durham, NC]: Pitchstone, 2020), 57.

  20.Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist (New York: One World, 2019), 84.

  21.Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018), 17.

  22.Ibram X. Kendi, “Pass an Anti-Racist Constitutional Amendment,” Politico.com, 2019, https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/.

  23.Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist (One World, 2019), 19.

  24.Ibram X. Kendi, “A Battle Between the Two Souls of America,” TheAtlantic.com, November 11, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/americas-two-souls/617062/.

  25.Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories ([Durham, NC]: Pitchstone, 2020), 210–11.

  26.Richard Sosis and Candace Alcorta, “Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior,” Evolutionary Anthropology 12 (2003): 264–74, http://sites.oxy.edu/clint/evolution/articles/SignalingSolidarityandtheSacredTheEvolutionofReligiousBehavior.pdf.

  27.Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: Norton, 1995), 21.

  28.Mike McRae, “A Massive Hoax Involving 20 Fake Culture Studies Papers Just Exploded in Academia,” ScienceAlert.com, October 4, 2018, https://www.sciencealert.com/cultural-studies-sokal-squared-hoax-20-fake-papers.

  29.Yascha Mounk, “What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia,” TheAtlantic.com, October 5, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/.

  30.Christine Emba, “The ‘Sokal Squared’ hoax sums up American politics,” WashingtonPost.com, October 10, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-do-the-kavanaugh-confirmation-and-the-sokal-squared-hoax-have-in-common/2018/10/10/f7efabf8-ccc6-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html.

  31.Heather Mac Donald, The Diversity Delusion (New York: St. Martin’s, 2018), 2.

  32.David Randall, “Social Justice Education in America,” NAS.org, November 29, 2019, https://www.nas.org/reports/social-justice-education-in-america/full-report#Preface&Acknowledgements.

  33.O. Carter Snead, What It Means to Be Human (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020), 68–70.

  34.Ibid., 84–85.

  35.Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories ([Durha
m, NC]: Pitchstone, 2020).

  36.Roger Kimball, The Long March (New York: Encounter Books, 2000), 106–11.

  37.Ibid., 112–18.

  38.Shelby Steele, White Guilt (New York: HarperCollins, 2006).

  39.Jon Street, “Less than 2 percent of Harvard faculty are conservative, survey finds,” CampusReform.org, March 4, 2020, https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14469.

  40.Rachel Treisman and David Yaffe-Bellany, “Yale faculty skews liberal, survey shows,” YaleDailyNews.com, September 14, 2017, https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/09/14/yale-faculty-skews-liberal-survey-shows/.

  41.James Freeman, “Yale Prof Estimates Faculty Political Diversity at ‘0%,’” WSJ.com, December 9, 2019, https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/09/14/yale-faculty-skews-liberal-survey-shows/.

  42.Jon Street, “STUDY: Profs donate to Dems over Republicans by 95:1 ratio,” CampusReform.org, January 22, 2020, https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14255.

  43.Bradford Richardson, “Liberal professors outnumber conservatives nearly 12 to 1, study finds,” WashingtonTimes.com, October 6, 2016, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/liberal-professors-outnumber-conservatives-12-1/.

  44.Jon A. Shields, “The Disappearing Conservative Professor,” NationalAffairs.com, Fall 2018, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappearing-conservative-professor.

  45.Nick Gillespie, “Would the ACLU Still Defend Nazis’ Right to March in Skokie?,” Reason.com, January 2021, https://reason.com/2020/12/20/would-the-aclu-still-defend-nazis-right-to-march-in-skokie/.

  46.Scott Jaschik, “Who Defines What Is Racist?,” InsideHigherEd.com, May 30, 2017, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/30/escalating-debate-race-evergreen-state-students-demand-firing-professor.

  47.Tom Knighton, “Leftists Storm Out of Lecture Over Claim Men, Women Have Different Bodies,” PJMedia.com, March 16, 2018, https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tom-knighton/2018/03/16/leftists-storm-lecture-claim-men-women-different-bodies-n56793.

  48.Conor Friedersdorf, “The Perils of Writing a Provocative Email at Yale,” TheAtlantic.com, May 26, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-peril-of-writing-a-provocative-email-at-yale/484418/.

  49.Jon A. Shields, “The Disappearing Conservative Professor,” NationalAffairs.com, Fall 2018, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappearing-conservative-professor.

  50.Norimitsu Onishi, “Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So,” NYTimes.com, February 9, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage.

  51.Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman, “Dismissed by Degrees,” Harvard Business School, October 2017, https://www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/Documents/dismissed-by-degrees.pdf.

  CHAPTER 4: HOW SCIENCE™ DEFEATED ACTUAL SCIENCE

  1.Adam Gabbatt, “US anti-lockdown rallies could cause surge in Covid-19 cases, experts warn,” TheGuardian.com, April 20, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/20/us-protests-lockdown-coronavirus-cases-surge-warning.

  2.Michael Juliano, “Some LA parks are closing until further notice after a busy weekend on the trails,” Timeout.com, March 22, 2020, https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/news/some-l-a-parks-are-closing-until-further-notice-after-a-busy-weekend-on-the-trails-032220.

  3.Bruce Ritchie and Alexandra Glorioso, “Florida won’t close its beaches. Here’s exactly what DeSantis said about that,” Politico.com, March 19, 2020, https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/03/19/florida-wont-close-its-beaches-heres-exactly-what-desantis-said-about-that-1268185.

  4.Heather Mac Donald, “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism,” WSJ.com, June 2, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883.

  5.Larry Buchanan, Quoctrung Bui, and Jugal K. Patel, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in US History,” NYTimes.com, July 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html.

  6.Craig Mauger and James David Dickson, “With little social distancing, Whitmer marches with protesters,” DetroitNews.com, June 4, 2020, https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/04/whitmer-appears-break-social-distance-rules-highland-park-march/3146244001/.

  7.Jaclyn Cosgrove, Tania Ganguli, Julia Wick, Hailey Branson-Potts, Matt Hamilton, and Liam Dillon, “Mayor Garcetti takes a knee amid chants of ‘Defund police!’ at downtown LA protest,” LATimes.com, June 2, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-02/mayor-garcetti-takes-a-knee-amid-chants-of-defund-police-at-downtown-l-a-protest.

  8.Vincent Barone, “NYC Black Lives Matter marches can continue despite large-event ban, de Blasio says,” NYPost.com, July 9, 2020, https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/nyc-allows-black-lives-matter-marches-despite-ban-on-large-events/.

  9.Rachel Weiner, “Political and health leaders’ embrace of Floyd protests fuels debate over coronavirus restrictions,” WashingtonPost.com, June 11, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/political-and-health-leaders-embrace-of-floyd-protests-fuels-debate-over-coronavirus-restrictions/2020/06/11/9c60bca6-a761-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html.

  10.Julia Marcus and Gregg Gonsalves, “Public-Health Experts Are Not Hypocrites,” TheAtlantic.com, June 11, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/public-health-experts-are-not-hypocrites/612853/.

  11.Terrance Smith, “White coats and black lives: Health care workers say ‘racism is a pandemic too,’” June 12, 2020, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-coats-black-lives-health-care-workers-racism/story?id=71195580.

  12.Michael Powell, “Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What,” NYTimes.com, July 6, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-coronavirus-protests-quarantine.html.

  13.Joseph P. Williams, “Pandemic, Protests Cause Racism to Resonate as a Public Health Issue,” USNews.com, July 8, 2020, https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-07-08/racism-resonates-as-public-health-crisis-amid-pandemic-protests.

  14.Isaac Scher, “NYC’s contact tracers have been told not to ask people if they’ve attended a protest,” BusinessInsider.com, June 15, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-contact-tracers-not-asking-people-attend-george-floyd-protest-2020-6.

  15.“COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death by Age,” CDC.gov, August 18, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html.

  16.Yascha Mounk, “Why I’m Losing Trust in the Institutions,” Persuasion.community, December 23, 2020, https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-im-losing-trust-in-the-institutions.

  17.Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman, “The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?,” NYTimes.com, December 5, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-vaccine-first.html.

  18.Yascha Mounk, “Why I’m Losing Trust in the Institutions,” Persuasion.community, December 23, 2020, https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-im-losing-trust-in-the-institutions.

  19.Stephen Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress (New York: Viking, 2018), 4

  20.M. Collins, R. Knutti, J. Arblaster, J.-L. Dufresne, T. Fichefet, P. Friedlingstein, X. Gao, W. J. Gutowski, T. Johns, G. Krinner, M. Shongwe, C. Tebaldi, A. J. Weaver, and M. Wehner, “2013: Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility,” in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_Chapter12_FINAL.pdf.

  21.Alan Buis, “Making Sense of ‘Climate Sensitivity,’” Climate.NASA.gov, September 8, 2020, https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/3017/making-sense-of-climate-sensitivity/.

  22.“Economics Nobel goes to inventor of models used in UN 1.5C re
port,” ClimateChangeNews.com, October 8, 2018, https://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/10/08/economics-nobel-goes-inventor-models-used-un-1-5c-report/.

  23.Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial,” NYTimes.com, November 26, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/opinion/climate-change-denial-republican.html.

  24.Nicolas Loris, “Staying in Paris Agreement Would Have Cost Families $20K,” Heritage.org, November 5, 2019, https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/staying-paris-agreement-would-have-cost-families-20k.

  25.Michael Greshko, “Current Climate Pledges Aren’t Enough to Stop Severe Warming,” NationalGeographic.com, October 31, 2017, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/paris-agreement-climate-change-usa-nicaragua-policy-environment/#close.

  26.Kevin D. Dayaratna, PhD, and Nicolas D. Loris, “Assessing the Costs and Benefits of the Green New Deal’s Energy Policies,” Heritage.org, July 24, 2019, https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2019-07/BG3427.pdf.

  27.Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories ([Durham, NC]: Pitchstone, 2020), 37.

  28.Lawrence Krauss, “The Ideological Corruption of Science,” WSJ.com, July 12, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ideological-corruption-of-science-11594572501?mod=article_inline.

  29.Richard Haier, “No Voice at VOX: Sense and Nonsense about Discussing IQ and Race,” Quillette.com, June 11, 2017, https://quillette.com/2017/06/11/no-voice-vox-sense-nonsense-discussing-iq-race/.

  30.Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce,” Office of the President of Harvard University, January 14, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20080130023006/http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/nber.html.

  31.Editorial Board, “Science Eats Its Own,” WSJ.com, December 23, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/science-eats-its-own-11608765409.

  32.Ben Shapiro, “A Brown University Researcher Released a Study About Teens Imitating Their Peers by Turning Trans. The Left Went Insane. So Brown Caved,” DailyWire.com, August 28, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-university-researcher-released-study-about-ben-shapiro.

 

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