Encounter Books Gala - Heather Mac Donald receives the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom 

WASHINGTON, DC-On December 1st, 2022, Encounter Books honored Heather Mac Donald with The Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom.
Read a transcript of Heather Mac Donald's remarks on encounterbooks.com.
HEATHER MAC DONALD
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion. Mac Donald is the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe, and, most recently, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, which argues that toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture.
RAYMOND W. KELLY
With fifty years in public service, including fourteen years as police commissioner of the City of New York, Raymond W. Kelly is one of the world's most well-known and highly esteemed leaders in law enforcement. Kelly was appointed police commissioner in January 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, making Kelly the longest serving police commissioner in the city's history. He is currently the CEO of The Guardian Group.