What it does do – and why it deserves to be widely read – is raise a mass of awkward questions about religion, race, sex, and identity.
Issues such as unfair tax structures, government welfare towards banks and corporations, a lack of protection for the common citizen, and gaps in the social safety net are all social justice issues.
How about the Inquisition? Not a real reflection of Spanish Catholicism in the early modern period, right?
The point is rather that, potentially, even quite marked sex differences in the brain may have little consequence for behaviour.
Seeking viewpoint diversity brings us to the final way to use social media scientifically: keeping our information channels open as best we can.
Their accomplishment was huge; not because they moulded me into the man that I am today. No, their accomplishment was even greater.
Although the failure to stop an unethical practice is often attributed to character problems such as greed, sexism or the relentless pursuit of self-interest, our explanation is subtler.
There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change.
One of the forefathers of the modern internet, John Gilmore, famously remarked that the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
We should be promoting a response that saves lives, defends human freedom, acknowledges our responsibilities, and honours our liberal history.
As a young man the great economist was influenced by positivist circles in his native Austria. He expressed no faith or belief in God, and adopted a scientific materialism.
But anti-Brexit academics no longer appear able to differentiate between their own personal investment in the EU and the progressive social values they also claim to uphold.
We do this with surprising ease, often basing sustained bouts of deliberate nastiness on nebulous reasoning.
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.