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The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.
The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.
If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now.
Biologists have lately awoken to the news that their science makes them heretics in the postmodern imperium, and guilty of retailing the ideas most heretical to the progressive, constructivist, utopian-egalitarian worldview.
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
What is Islam and how does it differ from Islamism? And is this a hard and fast distinction for the majority of Muslims?
How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?
“In fact, with the rise of the Offense Culture, the Left’s attacks on science have become more intense. Expect more of them.”
The reputation of the Nobel Prize has been tarnished by the scandals at the Swedish Academy in 2017–18, and the scientific and medical scandal caused by the fatal windpipe transplantations at Karolinska.
The real problem with this book is that, to Zimmer and many other people, genetics itself is the enemy.
Recognising that there is a problem is half the battle.
Factfulness identifies ten instincts we all share, which tend to over-dramatize the world as we see it.