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<title><![CDATA[Heather MacDonald - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20668.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Heather MacDonald]]></description><category domain="20668">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani's Policies Guaranteed To Wreck NYC]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/zohran-mamdani-new-york-now-mayor/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Marijuana Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-marijuana-myth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's pardon of federal pot possession cases is a smokescreen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Total Shutdowns Carry Costs That Also Must Be Weighed]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/consider-the-costs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is worth reviewing what we know and don't know about the coronavirus epidemic to assess the benefits and costs of the growing policies]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UCLA's Costly Infatuation With Diversity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mac-donald-diversity-ucla-20180902-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[UCLA, like most American colleges, is among the most tolerant, welcoming environments in human history. Why is it teaching students to find bias where there is none?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is #MeToo Becoming a War on Men?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/too-close-comfort-15637.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tenuous accusations of sexual harassment against a portrait artist suggest that #MeToo has become a war on men.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We All Unconscious Racists?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/are-we-all-unconscious-racists-15487.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No: there's scant evidence to support the trendy implicit-bias theory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Profs Labeled Racists for Urging Public to Act Responsibly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450905/bourgeois-values-scandal-tars-law-prof-amy-wax-racism-charge</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility? Not so fast! According to a current uproar at the University of Pennsylvania, advocacy of such bourgeois virtues is hate speech. The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Statistical Evidence Not Required&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/html/statistical-evidence-not-required-14968.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conclusions of the Justice Department's damning report on the Chicago Police Department were probably foreordained.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to End the Demonizing of Police]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Time+to+End+the+Demonizing+of+Police&amp;rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS645US645&amp;oq=Time+to+End+the+Demonizing+of+Police&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l2.282j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years of corrosive rhetoric about racist cops, based on falsehoods'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with disastrous effects.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Feminism &amp; Multiculturalism Collide in W. Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/html/when-pieties-collide-14342.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hey, College Ninnies - Grow Up!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/html/hey-college-ninnies%E2%80%94grow-14312.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Divisive Rhetoric? Trump Didn't Start This Fire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432800/donald-trump-rhetoric-black-lives-matter-just-bad</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Commentators on MSNBC and CNN have been shedding crocodile tears over Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'divisive rhetoric'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and lamenting his failure to unify the country. This sudden concern for national unity is rather hard to take from the same worthies who have incessantly glorified the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fainting Couch at Columbia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/fainting-couch-columbia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
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							<title><![CDATA['Broken Windows' Policing Works]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419469/broken-windows-policing-does-work-heather-mac-donald</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist Charles Blow is angry again. This time he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s angry at me, among other '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'tough on crime, fear-mongering iron fist-ers.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Also, of course, at the cops. I had debated Blow last week about a Wall Street Journal op-ed of mine on depolicing and crime.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mayor Who Slandered the Police]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397409/mayor-who-slandered-police-heather-mac-donald</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'comfortable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' with himself. So the city learned during the biggest crisis to hit a New York mayoralty in recent memory. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m comfortable with the fact that I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve always tried to tell the truth and stay true to my values,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mayor de Blasio Slanders His Cops]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/heather-mac-donald-bill-slanders-cops-article-1.2035487</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is impossible not to be heartbroken and horrified by the video of Eric Garner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s death. Yes, he was a chronic lawbreaker. Yes, he was resisting arrest, a profound violation of the rule of law. But that resistance was more exasperated than vicious (though, to be sure, such...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Admin's Sexual Assault Lunacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377492/obama-administrations-deserving-victims-heather-mac-donald</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has released the names of 55 colleges and universities that it is investigating over their sexual-assault policies, part of an accelerating campaign against universities for allegedly turning a blind eye to the purported epidemic of campus rape. The list is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's Prison-Litigation Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_4_california-prisons.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2009, three federal judges in California issued what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has dubbed '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The state, announced the judges, must release upward of 46,000 prisoners within two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Women and &quot;Appropriate&quot; Combat Standards]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/338842/women-and-appropriate-combat-standards-heather-mac-donald</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Manipulate Tragedy of Trayvon Martin?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294357/why-manipulate-tragedy-trayvon-martin-heather-mac-donald</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month by a neighborhood-watch volunteer was a sickening and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' unless new facts come to light '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' unjustified loss of an innocent life. Unless Martin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s killer, George Zimmerman, had reason to believe that Martin was armed,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Diversity&quot; Boondoggles Are the Real Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/284064/pepper-spraying-taxpayers-heather-mac-donald</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As protesters festively (oops! I mean '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'heroically'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';') rally on college quads across California in the wake of the gratuitous macing of a dozen Occupy Wall Street wannabes at University of California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Davis last Friday, UC Berkeley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Vice Chancellor for Equity and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NY Times Distorts AZ's Reasonable Law]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.org/2010/eon0430hm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Heather MacDonald</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supporters of Arizona'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new law strengthening immigration enforcement in the state should take heart from today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s New York Times editorial blasting it. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Stopping Arizona'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' contains so many blatant falsehoods that a reader can be fully confident that the law as actually...]]></description>
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