Megyn begins the show by reflecting on the five-year anniversary of the 2020 BLM riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the overwhelming violence that erupted and damage it caused, the false narratives that persist today, and more.
Then, Heather Mac Donald, author of When Race Trumps Merit, joins to discuss the cultural and political fallout from the BLM protests, the media’s role in fueling destructive lies about law enforcement, the way DEI jobs are disappearing from corporate America, how the DEI agenda was driven by virtue signaling, the way DEI persists at elite higher education institutions, and more.
Finally, Alan Dershowitz, author of The Preventive State, joins to discuss the institutionalized antisemitism of Harvard, the decline of meritocracy in favor of DEI ideology, how DEI was elevated to the highest levels of Harvard with Claudine Gay as president, Donald Trump’s fight with leftist state governments and elite law firms, Dershowitz’s personal experience with backlash in his legal career, why Trump’s initiatives are likely to be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the death of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, what he says were her false accusations against him personally, his push for full transparency in the release of Epstein files, why he thinks powerful people are still being protected, and more.