DEI Statements

and I might shift my blog to substack

From the AEI (James D. Paul and Robert Maranto),

Across all 999 jobs, we find that 19 percent require diversity statements, while 68 percent include the terms “diversity” or “diverse” in some fashion, often as a way of describing the university environment. Job postings from elite colleges and universities, which comprised 28 percent of the job postings in our sample, are 21 percentage points more likely to require DEI statements and 13 percentage points more likely to reference diversity

Imagine if these institutions of higher education were to require a “Christianity statement.”

By the way, this post is an experiment. I am considering moving my blog to substack. What that would mean for people who subscribe to substack and are not familiar with my blog is that you would start seeing daily posts from me. I like to post once a day, usually scheduling posts a week in advance or more. One of my goals is to stay out of short-term kerfluffles.

If you don’t like having to wade through the blog posts and wish that I would keep them separate, leave a comment to that effect.

Speaking of comments, another of my goals is to maintain civil discussion there. I will tolerate a wide range of viewpoints, but I try my best to stamp out flame wars. A good rule is to comment on ideas, not on the person.

Here is a challenge from a Substack skeptic (recommended by one of the commenters on my blog, of course)

But how often have you gone back to read an old edition of your favorite newsletter? Why bother when you’ll have a new one tomorrow? Has anything you’ve read recently stuck with you?

As a writer, my goal is to play a long game. People come back to me with quotes from posts from many years ago, which I find much more rewarding than any popularity metric. So if there is some sort of intrinsic push toward short-termism on substack, I’ll either have to overcome it or go back to the blog. The blog will always be on my site, waiting for me, if need be.