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EPISODE · May 27, 2026 · 22 MIN

Diversity's Long History

from The Brian Lehrer Show · host WNYC

David B. Oppenheimer, clinical professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, co-director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law and the author of The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea (Yale University Press), argues that the idea that there is value in diversity in education and politics has a long history, and that attacks on the concept today are misguided. Cover art courtesy of Yale University Press Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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David B. Oppenheimer argues that the idea that there is value in diversity in education and politics.

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