Jacob Savage on the Costs of the Great Awokening

You know, I think millennials at least, for the most part, we were like really believed this sort of uh racial, gender-based equality. We were all going to be given equal chances. We understood. Some people had legs up, some people didn't. But overall, I think we really believed it in a way that I'm not sure previous generations did.

And I think What the DEI stuff did was disabuse us of that in a way that has been ultimately pretty poisonous for our politics. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. For the last ten years there has been an immense amount of talk about diversity, about DEI, and it's sometimes hard to know what the impact of that has actually been. there been real changes in the way in which American institutions recruit talent and the way in which they run when you look at the top echelons, it sometimes feels as though the change hasn't been as big as it might seem.

Well, my guest today has written a couple of viral articles saying that there has been a huge change in the last decade, but that it was concentrated among a particular generation of white men. Quote The Lost Generation in Compact magazine, Jacob makes an argument with a lot of detail showing to what extent the percentage of white men who were admitted to writers' rooms at in major Hollywood shows, who got tenure track appointments in academia, who were hired in entry-level positions. across virtually every cultural institution has plummeted. In this conversation, we talk about whether or not that is really the case, how reliable and robust those numbers are.

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