Is anything worth saving from the State Department’s new but vast diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility apparatus?
Executive summary: No.
As the summer 2020 high water mark of woke recedes, some U.S. institutions, from big companies to colleges, are gently backing off DEI, at least by name.
But not the State Department. On his first day, President Joe Biden “charged the Federal Government with . . . addressing systemic racism in our Nation’s policies and programs” via “an ambitious, whole-of-government approach,” writes Chris Rufo. Biden wanted woke ideology suffusing domestic and foreign policy.
It’s hard to exaggerate how much DEI has infested every aspect of work, at home and abroad at the State Department. With action on DEI now required for every officer’s annual evaluation, there are now a lot of solutions in search of a problem to…
