The problem of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has, in one form or another, haunted America for decades. It has re-made the workplace. It has distorted our politics. And it has been revolutionizing American education for at least two generations. 

While conservatives slept, these policies became a governing ethos in the country, the diversity persuasion. Today, nearly every facet of our society worships the false and pernicious view that diversity is, somehow, our greatest strength. The clichés of the diversity persuasion are on the lips of “educators,” corporate CEOs, chiefs of police, our elite media, our military leaders, and countless others.  

Claremont has long been critical of such notions. Indeed, we have been around long enough to see today’s diversity fanaticism as but the latest effort to undermine republican self-government and our free society. Tyranny comes in many forms. In the American Revolution, the source of tyranny was a hereditary monarch who governed without the consent of his people. Before the Civil War, tyranny came from private sources, slaveholders who, with the sanction of government, denied slaves equal rights under the law. The Progressive Era brought a threat from an administrative state that would collude with big business to squelch equal protection of the law and subvert the separation of powers and will of the people. The full threat of progressive policy has only been realized under America’s reigning civil rights regime, where business and bureaucracies collude to transform America away from its traditions of free, patriotic citizenship and toward a country with weak, easily controlled subjects cut off from republican control of their government or policy. 

Claremont partners with think tanks and supportive donors who want to expose this gathering tyranny and to find ways of preserving our good and decent political institutions and restoring our founding principles. We are proud to partner with foundations, for instance, who share our antipathy to the diversity persuasion. 

We are especially proud to partner with foundations and individual supporters interested in exposing and reversing the corruption of our institutions of higher learning. We hire scholars to work with state governments that are interested in destroying DEI policies at colleges and universities and restoring universities committed to reasonable patriotism, genuine research, and workforce education. 

We have compiled the first Black Lives Matter database, to track the pledges that corporate America has made to support the work of the corrupt, anti-American grifters in BLM and related institutions. 

We are working to expose how DEI policies corrupt America’s military, through its education on military bases and at the service academies, and through the ongoing corruption of the officer promotion processes. 

We are also very involved in offering a positive vision of America, what an America freed of the woke pieties about race, gender, sex, and “diversity” would look like. 

This earns us the enmity of America’s corrupt “elite” media. Just in the past three months, the New York Times, Vox, The New Republic, and The Bulwark have run lengthy hit pieces, trying to tar Claremont scholars with the usual tired accusations. 

Indeed, Claremont and its scholars are guilty of opposing identity politics and we are guilty of noticing. 

We think that a decent, enduring civilization must favor enduring man-woman marriage; therefore, we oppose modern feminism and the radical homosexual and transexual rights movements.

We think our reigning civil rights ideology creates a two-tiered system of justice and therefore undermines equal protection under the laws. We think our reigning civil rights ideology alienates many of the best citizens from our country, by denying them opportunity and stigmatizing their accomplishment because of their skin color and their position in the “oppressor”/“oppressed” matrix. 

We think that our reigning civil rights ideology seeks to prevent us acknowledging the facts of reality and to demand that we believe in lies like all racial disparities are traceable to discrimination. We think it is a grave threat to free speech and free elections. 

We think this ideology supports unhampered immigration, the concentration of power in America’s bureaucracies and courts, and the end of liberty and republican self-government.

We fight DEI because we see it as a mortal threat to the American Way of Life.