When I wrote “Competency Crisis” in 2023, I focused primarily on the problems that DEI had caused in the industries that I was closest to: finance, professional services, and science. Jacob Savage’s essay, The Lost Generation looks again at the damage wrought by DEI on he industries he’s closest to, the arts, journalism, and academia. I remember in 2021 being told, out loud, that our office had imposed a moratorium on hiring white men. That was all we needed to hear. After that, most of the millennial white men who heard the speech recognized they had little chance of promotion and left.