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Education The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country Chris Bodenner, The Atlantic ‘As difficult as it is, it’s important we discuss the part played by genes in cognitive ability’ Dr Kathryn Asbury, Tes Too Many Colleges Flunk Trump 101 Frank Bruni, The New York Times The Sexual Counter-Revolution Is ‘Weinsteining’ Getting Out of Hand? Cathy Young, LA Times The Consequence of this New Sexual Counter-Revolution? No Sex At All Douglas Murray, The Spectator Sex and Genetics Not Just About Sex: Throughout Our Bodies, Thousands of Genes Act Differently in Men and Women Jenny Graves, The Conversation International Development Things Are Looking Up – By Any Measure Marian L. Tupy, Human Progress

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Science / Tech Neanderthal boy’s skull reveals they grew like modern boys Agence France Presse, The Guardian A journey through schizophrenia, from researcher, to patient and back Usha Lee McFarling, Stat News  Uber, reviving old tactic, is backed by more than 500,000 in London row Paresh Dave, William Schomberg, Reuters  Facebook’s Ad Scandal isn’t a ‘Fail’ it’s a Feature Zeynep Tufecki, The New York Times   Culture / Education How Harvard helps its richest and most arrogant students get ahead Sarah Ruden, Washington Post Boys are Not Defective Amanda Ripley, The Atlantic ‘Stupidly politically correct society is the death of comedy’, warns veteran comedian Mel Brooks Rozina Sabur, The Telegraph   Who Should Decide What Speech is Acceptable? P.Z. Myers Appoints Himself Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True  Inside the Madness at Evergreen State Jillian Kay Melchoir, The Wall Street Journal How Milo Yiannopoulos’s Berkeley ‘Free Speech Week’ Fell Apart Rosie Gray, The Atlantic  

Science How Congress Ignored Science and Fueled Antibiotic Resistance Maryn McKenna Wired My IRB Nightmare SlateStarCodex The Neuroscience of Intelligence: Dr Richard Haier Jordan B Peterson, YouTube Nuclear the ‘only option’ to replace coal and gas: Michael Shellenberger Graham Lloyd, The Australian The Gender Gap in STEM is NOT What You Think Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution Politics / Foreign Policy Caste is Stunting All of India’s Children Diane Coffey and Dean Spears, Foreign Policy Hillary Clinton’s book has a clear message: don’t blame me Thomas Frank, The Guardian There’s No Such Thing As Islamophobia Pascal Bruckner, City Journal Culture / Education The Campus Left vs the Mentally Ill Clay Routledge, The Wall Street Journal  “The neurodiversity case for free speech” with Geoffrey Miller Nico Perrino, So to Speak: the Free Speech Podcast

Science Why people believe in conspiracy theories – and how to change their minds Mark Lorch, The Conversation Massive Genetic Study Shows Humans Are Evolving Bruno Martin, Nature The Greater Male Variability Hypothesis – An Addendum to Our Post on the Google Memo Sean Stevens and Jonathan Haidt, Heterodox Academy Culture / Education Joe Rogan Experience #1006 – Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein The Joe Rogan Experience  When Speak Out Culture Becomes Callout Culture Pamela Paresky, Psychology Today The Campus Sex-Crime Tribunals Are Losing KC Johnson, Commentary Harvard Shows How it Should be Done Charles Murray, The Weekly Standard Arguments Over Free Speech on Campus Are Not Left vs Right The Economist Politics / Foreign Policy Realism is Back Jacob Heilbrunn, Politico Was Charlottesville a Turning Point for the Alt-Right? Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic The Left-Wing Threat to Liberalism Cathy Young, Forward Treason – not racism – is the only legitimate reason to pull down a statue James Kirchick, The Spectator

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Science The Australian Scientists Cracking the Genetic Code of Clinical Depression Sarah Wiedersehn, The Sydney Morning Herald Aeon Tries to Revive Lamarck, Calling for a “Paradigm Shift” in Evolution Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True The Nuclear Option Michael Shellenberger, Foreign Affairs Culture / Education The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism Michael Shermer, Scientific American Trump Breaks a Taboo–and Pays the Price Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic Politics / Foreign Policy Charlottesville: Race and Terror VICE News, VICE News Tonight I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It Julius Krein, New York Times Spain’s Jihadis are Awakened Tom Wilson, Commentary  Mark Lilla vs Identity Politics Rod Dreher, American Conservative  Step Back: Lessons for U.S. Foreign Policy from the Failed War on Terror A. Trevor Thrall & Erik Goepner, Cato Institute

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