Professor Glenn Reynolds makes some great points about this in a new column.

DEI hollowed out a generation — and sapped America’s promise

The wholesale adoption of diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in almost all our major institutions has done untold damage to American society.

It was advertised as something noble — a way to open opportunities for women and minorities who had been unfairly denied them.

But through a combination of bureaucratic laziness and political malice, DEI soon became something approaching a ban on hiring millennial white males at the beginning of their careers.

The harm goes far beyond the wreckage it imposed on those young men.

“Affirmative action,” of course, has been around for decades, and anyone who’s worked at a major institution in America, whether government, corporate or academic, has seen its effects.

When I was applying for law professor jobs years ago, I was well aware that minority or female candidates were likely to get more interviews, and more job offers, than “traditional” candidates like me.

But the degree of discrimination then was comparatively minor: a question of a thumb on the scale.

Sometime around 2014, the thumb turned into a brick.

That became undeniable last week when Compact magazine published “The Lost Generation,” a detailed exposé of DEI’s impact by Jacob Savage, a writer who suffered it directly.

“The doors seemed to close everywhere and all at once,” Savage writes.

“In 2011 … white men were 48% of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9%. The Atlantic’s editorial staff went from 53% male and 89% white in 2013 to 36% male and 66% white in 2024.”

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