Peter Wood is a provost of The King’s College, NYC, where he is also a Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities. He is the author of Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (Encounter Books, 2002). He lives in New York
hardcover, by Peter Wood — Why are Americans so angry? Politicians launch preemptive strikes against their opponents; journalists pursue vendettas against public figures; talking heads spit venom at each other on wrathful radio and television shows. In the past, we disagreed with others, sometimes strongly, but we heard them out. Now we want to obliterate their opinions. Our public life seems more and more dominated by[...]
paperback, by Peter Wood — Diversity is America's newest cultural ideal. Corporations alter their recruitment and hiring policy in the name of a diverse workforce. Universities institute new admissions rules in the name of a diverse student body. What its proponents have in mind when they cite the compelling importance of diversity, Peter Wood argues in this elegant work, is not the dictionary meaning of the[...]
