When Race Trumps Merit

When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives by Heather Mac Donald, DW Books, 2023. 

In medicine, the political Left is trying to water down objective measures of medical excellence such as: 

•  Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)

•  United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE)

• Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE)

Several chapters of this book are about the damage that has been done to the performance of classical music by identity politics. Traditionally, the musician auditioning for a job in an orchestra performs behind a partition, so the judge remains ignorant of applicant’s appearance. This objective and merit-based system being replaced by race-based hiring.