Best of the Web, 9 December 2017
Education:
Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them Jack Goldsmith and Adrian Vermeule, Washington Post
Free Speech, Personified Peter Salovey, New York Times
Race and Racism:
The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism Olivia Goldhill, Quartz
Maybe We Should Just Shut Up? Noah Rothman, Commentary
A Police Killing Without a Hint of Racism Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Women in Tech:
The Empress Has No Clothes: The Dark Underbelly of Women Who Code and Google Women Techmakers Marlene Jaeckel, Medium
Sexual Harassment:
The Warlock Hunt Claire Berlinski, The American Interest Is Office Romance Still Allowed? Cathy Young, Wall Street Journal [Paywall]
Science:
Is Psychology a Self-Correcting Science? Lee Jussim, Psychology Today
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling Daniel Smith et al, Nature Communications
Politics
100 Years. 100 Lives. Think Twice. Laura M. Nicolae, The Harvard Crimson
