Corporations and federal employers promote it as their most important value. Educators declare it as central to their mission. Our politics is increasingly defined by the need to represent it. I speak, of course, of diversity. Businesses, schools, and the entertainment industry all declare their unwavering loyalty to it. Political pundits in every election cycle now argue the need for “more diverse candidates.”
Yet who, in an America that is increasingly racially, religiously, and sexually diverse, actually represents diversity? I do. Or, more accurately, my family does.
Large Families Are Like Circus Freaks
It occurred to me recently when I
