How Equality WIns: A New Vision for an Inclusive America by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow (Simon & Schuster 2026). Could this book be more timely? We do live in challenging times. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become bad words. Corporations, law firms, law schools, and other institutions (including the American Bar Association) are under intense scrutiny by an administration aggressively challenging DEI policies.

Here is the publisher’s pitch for the book:

“The renowned legal experts behind Say the Right Thing return with this clarion call for reimagining the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in a divided nation.

Equality in America is under siege. Corporations and universities are abandoning the DEI programs they previously championed. The tools Americans had for advancing fairness are facing a relentless political and legal assault. So how do we build a more just nation when the old playbook is no longer viable?

In this groundbreaking manifesto, Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, founders of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at NYU School of Law, candidly unpack where DEI went wrong and offer a roadmap to rebuild equality for the new era.

Drawing on their peerless legal expertise and extensive experience advising leaders in corporate America, academia, and the non-profit sector, Yoshino and Glasgow share tangible strategies to put this nation back on a more inclusive path, such as by fostering free speech and dissent, reclaiming the concept of merit, and welcoming groups that felt neglected by DEI. In doing so, they provide an urgently needed blueprint to ensure the work of equality can overcome the backlash and emerge stronger on the other side.

In an era when equality is imperiled, How Equality Wins provides a bracing critique and hopeful call to action for anyone committed to creating a fairer society.”

In Time, Yoshino and Glasgow (“Why Donald Trump Can’t Kill DEI”) explain that

“[w]hat our society has come to call DEI' is just the latest embodiment of a project of advancing equality that goes back centuries. That deeper, more durable project has traveled under different banners in different eras, including equality,' dignity,' fairness,' and opportunity,' or civil rights' and human rights.’ And as we look at the past, present, and future of this country, we have every reason to believe this project will endure.”

I like the optimism of this book!