Heather Mac Donald

HEATHER MAC DONALD is the national bestselling author of The War on Cops , the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal . A former aspiring academic with roots in deconstruction and postmodernism, she has been the target of violent student protest for her work on policing. Mac Donald holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from Cambridge in English, and a J.D. from Stanford. In 1998, Mac Donald was appointed to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's task force...See more

HEATHER MAC DONALD is the national bestselling author of The War on Cops , the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal . A former aspiring academic with roots in deconstruction and postmodernism, she has been the target of violent student protest for her work on policing. Mac Donald holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from Cambridge in English, and a J.D. from Stanford. In 1998, Mac Donald was appointed to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's task force on the City University of New York. In 2004, she received the Civilian Valor Award from the New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. In 2008, Mac Donald received the Integrity in Journalism Award from the New York State Shields, as well as the Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration from the Center for Immigration Studies. In 2012, she received the Quill & Badge Award for Excellence in Communication from the International Union of Police Associations. Mac Donald's work at City Journal has canvassed a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing and "racial" profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The New Criterion and Partisan Review , among other publications. https: //www.manhattan-institute.org/expert/heather-mac-donald See less