The people behind the mania for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) would have us believe that it’s an intellectually rigorous movement, grounded in truths and essential to the nation’s improvement. But is it just a big con being played for money and power?

That’s the argument put forth by Drexel University professor Stanley Ridgley in his new book DEI Exposed, which I review here for the Martin Center.

Ridgley writes: “In the non-profit world, results are not easily measured and America’s higher education system of colleges and universities are part of that world. This renders them the perfect petri dish for con games. It’s why hokum finds it way in and remains ensconced even as profound absurdities pass as results.”

This is a book to savor if you’re a skeptic about the DEI movement. Ridgley has dug deeply into the “research” that supposedly proves the need for DEI programs, racial preferences, restrictions on free speech, and so on. The intellectual support for all of it is as flimsy as the emperor’s new clothes.

You’ll get a laugh at the lengths to which the DEI beneficiaries go to make us believe they’re doing something important, such as repeating over and over that their anti-racist work is “exhausting.”

If you want to be well-armed in the fight to eradicate DEI and get our schools and colleges back to actually teaching facts, Ridgley’s book is essential reading.