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Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. She also is a recipient of 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement.

Heather's work at City Journal has canvassed a range of topics including homeland security, immigration, policing and "racial" profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, educational policy, the New York courts, and business improvement districts. Ms. Mac Donald's writings have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, The New Republic, Partisan Review, The New Criterion, Public Interest, and Academic Questions. Her book The Burden of Bad Ideas—a collection of essays from the pages of City Journal—details the effects of the sixties' counterculture's destructive march through America's institutions. Her second book, Are Cops Racist?—another City Journal anthology—investigates the workings of the police, the controversy over so-called racial profiling, and the anti-profiling lobby's harmful effects on black Americans. Her newest book, The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's, coauthored with Victor Davis Hanson and Steven Malanga, chronicles the effects of broken immigration laws and proposes a practical solution to securing the country's porous borders.

"A non-practicing lawyer, Ms. Mac Donald has clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, has been an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and a volunteer with the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City. She has testified before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee of the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives; the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims; the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. In 1998, she was appointed to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's task force on the City University of New York, thanks in large part to her City Journal essays on education. The New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Association conferred its Civilian Valor Award on her in 2004. She was awarded the 2008 Integrity in Journalism award from the New York State Shields. She was also the recipient of the 2008 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration from the Center for Immigration Studies. She is also a frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, and other television and radio programs.

Ms. Mac Donald received her B.A. in English from Yale University, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Mellon Fellowship to Cambridge University, where she earned her M.A. in English and studied in Italy through a Clare College study grant. Her J.D. is from Stanford University Law School.

Heather Mac Donald lives and works in New York City.

Select Media

* Lee Rodgers Show, KSFO, 8-6-09
* Tara Servatius Show, WBT, 7-30-09
* Tom Marr Show, WCBM, 7-27-09
* Kresta in the Afternoon, Ave Maria Radio, 7-27-09
* Bill Cunningham Show, WLW, 7-27-09
* Jerry Doyle Show, Talk Radio Network, 7-24-09
* Roger Hedgecock Show, Radio America, 7-24-09
* Campbell Brown Show, CNN, 6-16-09
* CBS Evening News, 6-10-09

Articles/Op-eds

Policing and Racial Profiling

* Promoting Racial Paranoia, National Review Online, 7-24-09
* Don't Cut Cops: Safety Remains City's Job No. 1, New York Post, 7-07-09
* Face Facts on Frisks, New York Post, 05-19-09
* Safe cities, successful conservatives, The Guardian, 02-26-09
* 'Public Interest' Lawyers Say Leave the Homeless to Rot, Wall Street Journal, 02-14-09
* Profiling Eric Holder Front Page Magazine, 01-15-09
* How Cop Bashers Menace Minorities New York Post, 08-11-08
* Cities You Can Believe In WashingtonPost.com, 07-15-08
* Gotham Knights New York Post, 07-13-08
* High Incarceration Rate Of Blacks Is Function Of Crime, Not Racism Investor's Business Daily, 04-28-08
* Justice Served New York Post, 04-28-08
* NYPD's historic feat should quiet critics New York Daily News, 01-06-08
* The Reclamation of Skid Row FrontPageMag.com, 11-09-07
* Skid Row in Rehab Los Angeles Times, 11-08-07
* Tough Love on Skid Row Wall Street Journal, 11-02-07
* Orlando Vacation from Reality: What Patterson got wrong National Review Online, 10-01-07
* Don't make Jena out to be more than it is Dallas Morning News, 09-30-07
* Cop Killers in High Places FrontPageMag.com, 07-23-07 (This article is adapted from City Journal Online, 07-19-07)
* Bullying The FDNY New York Post, 05-24-07
* Cool it, LAPD bashers Los Angeles Times, 05-20-07
* Does Bratton deserve five more years? With contribution by Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, 05-06-07
* A Civil Solution Frontpagemag.com, 03-28-07
* What's behind stop & frisks? High black crime New York Daily News, 02-07-07
* To stop gangs, call the Scouts Los Angeles Times, 01-21-07
* Blaming New York's Finest FrontPageMag.com, 01-18-07
* What's L.A.'s Problem? Los Angeles Times, 12-27-06
* New York Cops: Still the Finest FrontPageMag.com, 7-28-06
* LAPD's Gangster Cops Are Gone Los Angeles Times, 7-23-06
* Deadly Impressions National Review Online, 1-11-06
* Profiling allegations off-target Toledo Free Press, 10-19-05
* Reporting While Wrong, National Review, 9-26-05
* Don't Poison Policing With Racial Politics Hartford Courant, 10-10-04
* NYPD-Bashers (Too) Welcome New York Post, 8-28-04
* NU Profiling Study Really Proves Nothing Boston Globe, 5-19-04
* Crime, Not Race New York Post, 1-29-04
* Remove Cuffs on the LAPD Los Angeles Times, 10-20-03
* NYPD: Heroes in the Dark New York Post, 8-21-03
* At Long Last, South L.A. Has a Prayer -- the Police Los Angeles Times, 8-6-03
* Post-Prison Reform New York Post, 6-15-03
* Getting Straight New York Post, 6-8-03
* What Looks Like Profiling Might Just Be Good Policing Los Angeles Times, 1-19-03
* A Cop’s Life: The media takes sides and endangers lives. National Review Online, 7-23-02
* Black & True Blue: For the real story on police and race, ask black cops NY Daily News, 7-14-02
* After the Latest Arrest, Will the Left Acknowledge the Duty of Defense? New York Sun, 6-12-02
* Appeasing the Race Hustlers Weekly Standard, 4-22-02
* Rewarding Rioters New York Post, 4-21-02
* Profiling Myth Smashed, New York Post, 3-27-02
* Deadly ‘Experts’, New York Post, 1-6-02
* Lessons From Cincinnati NY Daily News, July 22, 2001
* Junk Science and Racial Profiling No tears: A stoic Peter Verniero testifies on racial profiling. New York Post, April 11, 2001
* Stop Persecuting the Police The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2001
* Opinion Journal reconizes Heather Mac Donald's City Journal article "The Myth of Racial Profiling" Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2001
* Phantom Cover-Up New York Post, September 4, 2001
* Al Sharpton Just Won’t Let Racial Wounds Heal The Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2000

Immigration

* Homework, Por Favor National Review Online, 09-12-08
* The Hispanic Family: The Case for National Action National Review Online, 04-14-08
* Symposium: The Immigration Solution By Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steven Malanga, Front Page Magazine, 01-18-08
* Mac The Immigration Debate Q & A with Kathryn Lopez, National Review Online, 11-07-07
* Re: The Company You Keep Symposium Featuring Heather Mac Donald, National Review Online, 06-12-07
* Illegal Immigration's Family Breakdown Human Events, 06-05-07
* Check Your GOP History National Review Online, 05-31-07
* Drop the N-Word Already National Review Online, 05-29-07
* Surge in birth rate among unwed Hispanics creating new U.S. underclass Dallas Morning News, 01-21-07
* ICE, ICE Baby National Review Online, 8-7-06
* Myth Debunked National Review Online, 7-24-06
* The Open Borders Mayor FrontPage Magazine, 7-12-06
* Illegal Immigration Myths FrontPageMag.com, 5-2-06
* Postmodern "Rights" en Los Estados Unidos National Review Online, 4-17-06
* Mexico, the meddling neighbor Los Angeles Times, 11-8-05
* Get serious about immigration enforcement Dallas Morning News, 12-30-04 (This article is a reprint from the New York Post 12/15/04)
* Ignored In Open-Borders Debate: Rising Cost Of Second Underclass Investor’s Business Daily, 8-23-04
* A New Latino Underclass Dallas Morning News, 7-25-04
* 'Sanctuary' Laws Stand In Justice's Way Los Angeles Times, 1-19-04
* W's Immigration Fallacy New York Post, 1-16-04

Homeland Security

* Interrogate This National Review Online, 04-08-08
* The Security-Industrial Complex Wall Street Journal, 09-07-06
* Plans Destroyed National Review Online, 08-11-06
* When Lawyers Go to War Wall Street Journal, 7-7-06
* National Security Be Damned The Weekly Standard, 07-03-06
* Information Please The Weekly Standard, 05-22-06
* Computers Can't Eavesdrop New York Post, 2-6-06
* Rumormongers' tales of torture by U.S. ignore facts New York Daily News, 11-28-05
* King Folly National Review Online, 8-11-05
* Citizens need to be ready for their closeup New York Daily News, 7-24-05
* Looking the Wrong Way National Review Online, 7-22-05
* Patriot Act: Let Investigators Do Their Job NPR, 7-20-05
* The Media's False Modesty National Review Online, 6-9-05
* Patriots & Propaganda New York Post, 4-11-05
* Book Review: Everyone an Exhibitionist Wall Street Journal, 1-25-05
* Question Away New York Post, 1-18-05
* Too Nice for Our Own Good Wall Street Journal, 1-6-05
* Should Gonzales be Attorney General? Legal Affairs, 1-25-05 to 1-28-05
* Torturing the Evidence The Weekly Standard, 1-24-05
* Safety’s Not No. 1 New York Post, 12-15-04
* Straighten Up and Fly Right Wall Street Journal, 12-2-04
* Inventing Victimhood: A documentary ignores 9/11’s real casualties. NRO, 12-1-04
* Taking Dictation from the ACLU: A case study in anti-Patriot Act propaganda. Weekly Standard, 10-18-04
* Hijacked by the 'Privocrats' Wall Street Journal, 8-5-04
* Unreality Activists NationalReview.com, 8-4-04
* The Un-PATRIOT-ic Left Front Page Magazine, 5-18-04
* Common Sense and Computer Analysis Washington Post, 5-31-04
* Privocrats vs. National Security National Review, 5-18-04
* Airline security grounded by paranoia Boston Herald, 4-27-04
* Perils of Privacy New York Post, 4-26-04
* Behind the 'Rights' Wall, Hysterical Activists Los Angeles Times, 4-25-04
* Keep on protesting? No Antics are costly strain on police, NY Daily News, 4-3-03
* The ‘Privacy’ Jihad Wall Street Journal, 4-1-04
* Anti-Patriot Games New York Post, 8-31-03
* In Defense Of the Patriot Act Washington Post, 8-24-03
RELATED: Washington Times Editorial: Hype, hysteria and the Patriot Act 8-27-03
* Times’ ‘Abuse’ Hooey New York Post, 7-28-03
* A ‘Profiling’ Pall On the Terror War Washington Post, 5-5-03
* Deadly Silence New York Post, 3-17-03
* Total Information Unawareness: What we don't know can hurt us. The Weekly Standard, 2-17-03
* Total Hysteria New York Post, 2-15-03
* Total Misrepresentation, The Weekly Standard, 1-27-03
* Privacy Paranoia New York Post, 1-26-03
* No Green Light To Spy on Americans New York Sun, 12-3-02
* Ease spying limits for cops? Yes NY Daily News, 11-14-02
* The Hunt for Terrorists Runs Up Against Political Correctness New York Sun, 11-5-02
* FBI Handcuffed New York Post, 10-27-02
* The Elite War on Our ‘Bigotry’ New York Post, 9-10-02
* The War on the Police The Weekly Standard, 12-31-01
* Use Compstat Against Terror NY Daily News, 11-4-2001
* Bum ‘Rights’ Rap New York Post, 5-1-02

Education

* Law schools' ward churchill moment, National Review Online, 07-16-09
* Victimology 101 at Yale, Weekly Standard, 03-16-09
* Recession-Proof Diversity, Forbes.com, 01-10-09
* A Preference For Truth, Forbes.com, 10-24-08
* Homework, Por Favor National Review Online, 09-12-08
* How UC is rigging the admissions process Los Angeles Times, 09-07-08
* What campus rape crisis? Los Angeles Times, 02-24-08 (This article is adapted from the winter issue of City Journal and also is on FrontPageMag.com, 02-25-08 and RealClearPolitics.com, 02-24-08)
* Another view: America's flaw or Bloom's? The New Criterion, November 2007
* Learning for Dollars The Weekly Standard, 7-09-07
* Diversity Gobbledygook Minding the Campus, 5-16-07
* Harvard's Faustian Bargain RealClearPolitics.com, 2-9-07 (This originally appeared on City-Journal.org)
* Should Law Schools Abandon Clinics? LegalAffairs.org, 1-30-06
* Clinical, Cynical The Wall Street Journal, 1-11-06
* God and (Wo)man at Yale Weekly Standard, 10-17-05
* Dartmouth Does Diversity Weekly Standard, 12-2-02
* Only Way to Teach Kids Is to Get Back to Basics NY Daily News, 8-12-02
* At CUNY, Snail-Pace Reform New York Daily News, April 24, 2001
* CUNY Chooses mediocrity NY Daily News, Friday, October 8, 1999

Welfare

* Food Stamps: The Mayor's Good Call, New York Post, 02-20-09
* NYC's Wasteful Welfare Giveaway New York Post, 11-11-08
* Mike's Misstep New York Post, 07-15-08
* What Government Should - And Should Not - Do Gotham Gazette, 9-25-06
* Mike Gets Halfway Radical New York Post, 9-20-06
* NY’s Welfare Secret New York Post, 3-30-04
* Mike’s Retreat New York Post, 10-17-03
* A Victory Over 'Homeless' Hooey New York Post, 10-2-03
* Homeless Holiday Hype New York Post, 12-7-02
* Work = Slavery? New York Post, 11-4-02
* Dirty Secret of Welfare Reform New York Post, 6-25-02
* Love, Honor & Get Off Dole NY Daily News, 6-9-02
* Welfare Reform: One Step Back New York Post, 5-15-02
* Sliding Back Into Welfare NY Daily News, 3-31-02
* Bloomberg’s Test New York Post, 2-15-02
* Advocates Of Excuses New York Post, 2-1-02
* When Bad Habits Met a Mayor Who Wouldn't Put Up With Them, Wall Street Journal, 1-23-02
* Welfare Fraud’s Return New York Post, 1-9-02
* Will the Excuse Empire Return? The Wall Street Journal, 12-31-01
* Forbidden Facts New York Post, August 21, 2001
* Giuliani Gets a Bum Rap The Wall Street Journal, December 7, 1999
* Keep Fixing Welfare | Next mayor must not roll back the clock, NY Daily News, June 24, 2001
* Hype About Hunger The New York Times, Thursday, August 12, 1999
* Free Lunch--No Dishes To Wash Forbes, 5-4-98

Other

* Diversity targets for philanthropists are absurd, Dallas Morning News, 02-07-09
* Farewell, Mr. President National Review Online Symposium, 01-20-09
* The Year to Come National Review Online Symposium, 12-30-08
* Right in Line National Review Online, 11-18-08
* The family show-and-tell National Post, 09-02-08
* Grill Power: Elitist feminism and the New York Times FrontPage Magazine, 07-01-08
* Seeing Is Believing Weekly Standard, 03-04-08
* Driving for dollars Los Angeles Times, 07-03-07
* Eclipsing Beauty City Journal, 03-01-07
* God and Man and Human Suffering The American Spectator, December 2006/January 2007
* Conservatism doesn't need God USA Today, 10-23-06
* The conservative contradiction Chicago Sun-Times, 9-03-06
* Religious Triumphalism Isn't Conservative The American Conservative, 8-28-06
* Religiously Arguing National Review Online, 8-23-06
* It doesn't have to be a woman Los Angeles Times, 10-28-05
* Girl Problems National Review Online, 7-5-05
* Scourge of the Times New York Sun, 2-28-05
* Vision and Philanthropy, A Bradley Center Symposium Hudson Institute, 2-16-05
* The Diversity Taboo, The Weekly Standard, 1-26-04
* Graffiti Is Metastasizing Again in New York, and Guess Who’s Applauding New York Sun, 17 July 2002
* Put Their Mouths Where The Money Is NY Daily News, April 23, 2001
* Council Job Killer New York Post, 12-20-02
* Symbolic Politics NY Daily News, 5-5-02
* Boy Scout Battle Pits Gay Activists vs. Minority Kids The Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2000

Testimony

* Heather Mac Donald Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security 5-3-05
* Testimony for reauthorizing the Patriot Act before United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on the Patriot Act 4-19-05
* Immigration and the Alien Gang Epidemic: Problems and Solutions 4-13-05

Books

* The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's (Ivan R.Dee, November 2007)
* Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans (Ivan R. Dee, January 2003)
* The Burden of Bad Ideas (Ivan R. Dee, October 2000)

City Journal Articles

* Proactive Policing, Lax Jailing, 7 August 2009
* Obama’s Ignorant Attack on Cops, 29 July 2009
* The Jail Inferno, Summer 2009
* New York’s Indispensable Institution, 7 July 2009
* Ricci and the Skills Gap, 7 July 2009
* Obscure Treasures at the Brooklyn Museum, 17 June 2009
* A Harlem Tragedy and Its Exploiters, 2 June 2009
* Royal Heartbreak, 11 May 2009
* A Gift and a Travesty, 20 March 2009
* Recession-Proof Diversity, Winter 2009
* More City Journal Articles