Finally, the diversity, equity, and inclusion dominoes are starting to fall. Universities and corporations are waking from their slumbers and realizing that embracing DEI damages their reputations, ability to perform their missions, and sometimes their share prices.

Instead of the harmless cloud of feel-good fluff that the anodyne DEI name seemed to promise, they found they’d imported a crippling ideological tyranny. Now, a few institutions are trickling toward the practical and principled policy of avoiding politics and getting on with the jobs for which they exist. The trickle will, one hopes, become a flood.