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There is no room for nuance, no room for subtlety. Feelings supersede facts. The emotions of the most fragile must be soothed at any cost, even if the truth is a casualty.
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
News and information thus become weaponized and aimed against the very institutions and values that free speech was supposed to protect.
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.”
Many argue that American colleges and universities are the envy of the world. Indeed, people from all over the globe flock here to pursue their educational goals.
Politics / Foreign Policy The Alt-Right’s Chickens Come Home to Roost David French, National Review The Liberal Crack Up Mark Lilla, The Wall Street Journal Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Face Off Raising Possibility of Accidental War John Kehoe, Australian Financial Review Why Are the Media Sympathetic to the
Mental disorders are highly stigmatized conditions, but they have a hidden upside.
Culture In Defence of the Bad, White Working Class Shannon Burns, Meanjin Gender Imbalances are Mostly Not Due to Offensive Attitudes SlateStarCodex Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual Engineering Indrek Wichman, James G Martin Center for Academic Renewal Science National Identity Eases Cross-Cultural Trust Problems Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Culture A Secularist vs. the Progressive Faith Tom Wilson, Commentary Liu Xiaobo and Twitter’s Theatre of Radical Cruelty Jamie Palmer, Tablet Magazine Science Don’t Believe in God? Maybe You’ll try U.F.Os Clay Routledge, The New York Times First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. Steve
It is only the theocratic movement of Islamism that seeks to silence critics with character assassination, blasphemy laws, threat of riot and the dirty murder of cartoonists.
CultureRichard Dawkins deplatformed at a book talk in Berkeley for “abusive speech” about Islam on Twitter Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True Why it’s a Bad Idea to Tell Students that Words are Violence Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff, The Atlantic Aliens, Antisemitism and Academia Remi Adekoya & Landon
Evergreen State fiasco drew national attention, and since then it appears that the college has only chosen to double down on the insanity.
Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture.