The anti-white bias in faculty hiring is pervasive. I spent way too much time in academia, and ended up getting to know many tenured professors who were grandfathered in long before the DEI madness. Many were serving on hiring committees where their job was to interview potential candidates for entry-level faculty jobs; some also served on tenure committees. At first it was a slow drip. Every now and then, a candidate would be denied purely because the administration prioritized a woman or a person of color for that position. By 2018, it was pretty much the conventional norm. Professor friends told me “I don’t even know why we are going through this show trial.” A candidate with a stellar research and publishing record, an entrepreneurial streak and tons of charisma would easily be overlooked because he was a white male (being gay didn’t help). It is not just the white male candidate that suffers from being denied a cushy university job. It’s also the students who are paying what, $80,000 a year to go to college or graduate students who have applied themselves to work under the tutelage and mentorship of a great research scientist. We are depriving all these students the opportunity to learn from and work with the best. The costs to this disastrous policy is a race to bottom. @SwipeWright, I hope you win, but even if you do it’s not enough. The culture must change. This must stop.