Why We Walk on Eggshells
How Our Civil Rights Laws Have Made It Hard to Talk Sensibly About Race and Sex
$63.68
- Hardcover
392 pages
- Release Date
10 December 2026
Summary
Political and social movements seldom appear out of nowhere. They have roots.
Some of the Woke Era’s roots lie in our civil rights laws.
By prohibiting discrimination, these laws were intended calm tensions among the races and between the sexes. And they’ve had a lot of success. But some civil rights laws-whether because they were not well thought out or because the Supreme Court bent over backwards to misinterpret them-have had the opposite effect.
A prime example is …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781641775328 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1641775327 |
| Author: | Gail Heriot |
| Publisher: | Encounter Books,USA |
| Imprint: | Encounter Books,USA |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Gail Heriot
Gail Heriot is the Chairman of the Board of the American Civil Rights Project and a Board Member of the National Association of Scholars.
In 1996, she co-chaired the Yes on Proposition 209 campaign, which amended the California constitution to prohibit the state from engaging in preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, or ethnicity. In 2020, she reprised her role as co-chair of the successful campaign to prevent Proposition 209’s repeal.
She is the co-editor (with Maimon Schwarzschild) of the 2021 anthology entitled “A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education.” She blogs at Instapundit.
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