Diversity Without Discrimination: How to Promote a Culture of Unity in a Post-DEI/Affirmative Action World
Political scientist and former law professor Carol Swain warned in 2023 that the Supreme Court’s decision that year to end race-based college admissions spelled doom for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and affirmative action in the workplace. What had been unthinkable for many Americans occurred on January 20-21, 2025, when President Donald Trump signed executive orders jettisoning DEI in federal programs and ending sixty years of affirmative action.
In this updated and revised book, originally titled The Adversity of Diversity, Swain and collaborator Mike Towle add a new title/subtitle, preface, cover, and additional insights about what these dramatic changes mean for America. Diversity without Discrimination offers a vision whereby our nation’s motto, e Pluribus unum (“out of many, one”), is possible. Swain concludes the book with a plan and program for achieving REAL Unity that will fit every workplace in America.
The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, and the Death of Academic Integrity
Claudine Gay’s resignation on January 2, 2024, as Harvard University’s first Black president, after only six months on the job, sent shock waves across the world. However, it did not shock anyone closely following her situation. Gay stepped down less than a month after giving disastrous testimony in Congress about her university’s laissez-faire approach to protecting Jews on campus from rising expressions of antisemitism that followed Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel. A double-whammy occurred when it was reported that Gay had committed serial plagiarism involving her 1997 PhD dissertation completed while a student at Harvard and in other published works.
Among those whose work Gay pilfered was Dr. Carol Swain, author of the ground-breaking 1993 book Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress. In The Gay Affair, Dr. Swain offers a candid, compelling narrative about Gay, Harvard, academic plagiarism, and how she (Swain) was rebuffed and threatened financially when she attempted to seek a legal remedy from Harvard officials. For an insider’s look into the world of elite institutional academia and how corners often get cut, Swain’s The Gay Affair is a no-nonsense must-read.