2026 Summer Institute

Heather Mac Donald

Thomas W. Smith Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is the author of The War on Cops, The Diversity Delusion, and The Burden of Bad Ideas. Mac Donald writes widely on immigration, policing, education, and culture, and her work appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications.