Noemie Emery: Diversion from facts

Published January 15, 2013 5:00am ET



Around midday on Jan. 8 or thereabouts, the diversity quotient in the president’s circle exceeded its level of permissible maleness, stoking a clamor for “binders of women” to bring it back under control. Or perhaps we should say “maleness and whiteness,” as, along with estrogen, melanin also (to stretch a metaphor) seemed to be doing a fade.

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