When Arizona’s public universities announced last year that they would stop requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements from job applicants, it was a welcome deviation from what looked like an unstoppable march through academic and corporate hiring departments. Despite a name intimating dedication to opening employment processes for a full range of applicants, DEI statements have proven to be ideological loyalty oaths that filter out dissenters from a progressive worldview. But instead of a brief note of relief, Arizona may have been an early domino to fall in a wave of rethinking the issue.