Heather Mac Donald

Well, identity politics is everywhere.

— Heather Mac Donald

The rising tide of single-parent households threatens American society.

— Heather Mac Donald

Communities do not benefit from criminals in their midst.

— Heather Mac Donald

Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.

— Heather Mac Donald

I think a lot of people are clueless about the degree of hatred of whites.

— Heather Mac Donald

A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.

— Heather Mac Donald

Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda.

— Heather Mac Donald

Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder.

— Heather Mac Donald

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally…

— Heather Mac Donald

I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language…

— Heather Mac Donald

No cabinet official has delivered on Donald Trump's key campaign promises more resoundingly than Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

— Heather Mac Donald

Anyone who is willing for an instant to credit the claims of astral influence is a walking demonstration of the tragic failure…

— Heather Mac Donald

Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a…

— Heather Mac Donald

Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the…

— Heather Mac Donald

I think that some part of society is worried that the racial achievement gap is not going to close. And so we've…

— Heather Mac Donald

Opponents of New York City's proactive style of policing struggle mightily to downplay its most obvious benefit: the largest crime drop on…

— Heather Mac Donald

President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to change the false Black Lives Matter narrative, but it doesn't look like…

— Heather Mac Donald

Republican politicians regularly churn out earnest policy wonkery and programs in the hope of raising more black children out of poverty. Black…

— Heather Mac Donald

For decades, liberal criminologists have tried to corroborate the Left's cherished belief that the criminal-justice system responds to similarly situated whites and…

— Heather Mac Donald

The Democratic Party now is an extension of this poisonous identity politics on college campuses and to be honest, I can only…

— Heather Mac Donald

Besides interrupting more serious criminal activity, intensive misdemeanor enforcement and proactive street stops send the message to criminals and law-abiding residents alike…

— Heather Mac Donald

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of…

— Heather Mac Donald

Federal transfers are not even a zero-sum proposition; they are a negative-sum proposition, leaking value at every step of the way, thanks…

— Heather Mac Donald

One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the…

— Heather Mac Donald

Mandatory stints in the private economy before college enrollment could do wonders for study skills.

— Heather Mac Donald

Unless you think hard about political questions in our culture, you are liberal by default. You have to think your way out…

— Heather Mac Donald

The wider public is clueless about the social breakdown in high-crime areas and its effect on street life.

— Heather Mac Donald

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

— Heather Mac Donald

There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.

— Heather Mac Donald

Every voice with a national bully pulpit that is willing to take on the lies of the anti-cop Left is still vitally…

— Heather Mac Donald

Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.

— Heather Mac Donald

A federal government with enough money to buy iPads for local gym teachers is not a federal government that has been cut…

— Heather Mac Donald

The Obama Justice Department put more police departments under federal control for alleged systemic bias than any previous administration had.

— Heather Mac Donald

A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.

— Heather Mac Donald

Welfare reform was a good-faith effort to break the cycle of intergenerational dependence.

— Heather Mac Donald

The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.

— Heather Mac Donald

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

— Heather Mac Donald

Received left-wing wisdom holds that the police cannot lower crime, only massive welfare spending and the redistribution of wealth can.

— Heather Mac Donald

The most urgent task of any college is the transmission of knowledge, pure and simple.

— Heather Mac Donald

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

— Heather Mac Donald