Harvard University, wrote that "with her spitfire writing and scorn for nonsense she is forcing universities to live up to their own principles." Murray, an American Enterprise Institute scholar, said the book was "crammed with facts and numbers that universities go to great lengths to hide." Steele, a conservative author, wrote, "Not since Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind has a book so thoroughly exposed the damage done to American institutions—particularly universities—by modern liberalism's glib commitment to diversity." 2017 protest In spring 2017, a protest group announced plans to "shut down" Mac Donald's speech on the Black Lives Matter movement at a college campus in California, calling her racist, fascist, and anti-black. On April 7, around 250 protesters surrounded audience members and prevented them from entering the building where she was speaking at Claremont McKenna College, whose president, Hiram Chodosh, afterward said, "Based on the judgment of the Claremont Police Department, we jointly concluded that any forced interventions or arrests would have created unsafe conditions for students, faculty, staff, and guests." Mac Donald ultimately gave the talk to a small audience in the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum that was live-streamed on Claremont McKenna's website. Chodosh claimed that "the effort to silence her voice effectively amplified it to a much larger audience." The college subsequently suspended seven students. Books The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave, "City Journal" Winter 2004 The Immigration Solution (co-authored with Victor Davis Hanson and Steven Malanga). Ivan R. Dee. 2006. (due for release April 18) Awards Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement, 2005. The Fund for American Studies Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award for Outstanding Journalism, 2017. National Association of Scholars Peter Shaw Award, 2019. Personal life Mac Donald is an atheist. She lives in New York City. References External links "Excoriating the Enablers, in 12 Chapters", by Robin Finn, The New York Times, November 28, 2000 Video of conversation between Heather Mac Donald and Glenn Loury at Bloggingheads.tv Video (and audio) of debate/discussion with Heather Mac Donald and Mark Kleiman on Bloggingheads.tv The Campus Rape Myth: The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys by Heather Mac Donald in 2008 1956 births Living people American atheists American essayists American political commentators American political writers American women journalists American women lawyers Lawyers from New York City Manhattan Institute for Policy Research New York (state) Republicans Phillips Academy alumni Race and crime in the United States Stanford