A collection of 91 posts
Sex and Gender Children Are Victims in the Latest Identity-Driven Culture War, Leading Article, The Economist The Alt-Right The Making of an American Nazi Luke O’Brien, The Atlantic Education Higher Education’s Deeper Sickness John M Ellis, Wall Street Journal The Power Rule – Review of ‘Free Speech on Campus’
So, how did the Dear Colleague Letter turn universities into star chambers? It lowered the burden of proof for a guilty finding in sex cases, and stripped the accused of due process.
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?
China quickly found itself facing dissatisfaction from those steamrollered by a policy of growth at all costs, in spite of the country’s economic and diplomatic successes.
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
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,
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
This robustness does still exist, but only at a fairly low level, where raw packets of data are routed between numerical addresses.
Having falsely established that Charlie Hebdo were just picking on Muslims, he can lay the charge of hypocrisy upon anybody that has ever objected to any other speech.
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
Politics / Foreign Policy Iconoclasm and Violence Rod Dreher, American Conservative The Great Nazi Scare of 2017 Holman W. Jenkins The Wall Street Journal What Moderates Believe David Brooks, The New York Times Identity and Terror: A Conversation with Douglas Murray Sam Harris, The Waking Up Podcast Is Violence the Way
Most people think of Title IX in relation to women’s access to college sports, but in fact it mandates gender equity in all aspects of higher education.
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 / EducationThe Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism Michael
During his 2015 speech at a Boston mosque, U.S. President Barack Obama said: “And we can’t suggest that Islam itself is at the root of the problem. That betrays our values.”