Why Harvard Was Wrong to Make Me Step Down
Some students may have felt unsafe because I represented Harvey Weinstein. But feelings alone should not drive university policy.
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Bret Stephens
"Unchecked emotion has replaced thoughtful reasoning on campus. Feelings are no longer subjected to evidence, analysis or empirical defense. Angry demands, rather than rigorous arguments, now appear to guide university policy." Ronald Sullivan in the NYT
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Steven Pinker
Another day, another op-ed by a Harvard prof criticizing the university’s infantilizing its students, in this case by indulging their unanalyzed feelings. Ron Sullivan: Why Harvard Was Wrong to Make Me Step Down
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Jonathan Haidt
@ProfRonSullivan argues that Harvard is teaching its students to believe Great Untruth #2 from #TheCoddling: "Always trust your feelings."
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The Fifth Column - Analysis, Commentary, Sedition: 121 “On Anti-Racism w/ Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams” on Apple Podcasts
Show The Fifth Column - Analysis, Commentary, Sedition, Ep 121 “On Anti-Racism w/ Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams” - Nov 22, 2018
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Sam Harris
This is the best conversation about race I’ve ever heard. Bravo, gents. @kmele @GlennLoury @JohnHMcWhorter @coldxman @thomaschattwill
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Inequality Deputy Editor
INEQUALITY DEPUTY EDITOR, PART-TIME
Long a champion of equality in all its guises, The New Republic is looking for a part-time editor to oversee a forthcoming inequality vertical. The editor will be expected to recruit and oversee columnists and...
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Tom Gara
The New Republic is hiring an Inequality Editor; "This is a part-time role, requiring 29.5 hours per week, and does not include benefits." tnr.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?… pic.twitter.com/IfPg8i2qYN
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Veritas Visuals
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent "Trump situation" in 2020 on Hidden Cam
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James O'Keefe
BREAKING: YOUTUBE/GOOGLE HAS REMOVED OUR GOOGLE INVESTIGATION as it was approaching 50K likes and a million views. IMPORTANT: Please download it on @bitchute and repost it.
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Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent "Trump situation" in 2020 on Hidden Cam
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Project Veritas
.@Google INSIDER: @PragerU And @RubinReport Content Suppressed, Targeted As “Right-Wing”
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Dilemma Podcast – This Is 42
The Dilemma Podcast features prominent thinkers discussing a different moral dilemma in every episode. The episode starts by introducing the moral dilemma in a dramatic presentation, rich with sound effects, music and narration. Our host then gives...
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DILEMMA
ANNOUNCING SEASON 1 of DILEMMA!
Hosted by @coldxman and @jay_shapiro
Incredible guests like: @seanmcarroll @sapinker @ericlinuskaplan @erikphoel Rebecca Goldstein Susan Wolf @JonHaidt Lisa Tessman @peez @DavidDeutschOxf @robinhanson @NinaStrohminger
thisis42.com/discover/dilem… pic.twitter.com/4uhO7R7Al1
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BREAKING: New Google Document Leaked Describing Shapiro, Prager, as ‘nazis using the dogwhistles’
(New York) – Project Veritas has obtained a newly leaked document from Google that appears to show a Google employee and member of Google “transparency-and-ethics” group calling conservative an
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James O'Keefe
BREAKING: LEAKED @Google doc from 'transparency-and-ethics group' calls @benshapiro, @prageru, @jordanbpeterson "nazis using the dogwhistles" and recommends the disabling of the "suggestions" feature. FULL ARTICLE: bit.ly/2RBS6x3 pic.twitter.com/MyC2cOthue
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People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They're being turned away.
A Border Patrol official told a state lawmaker that the agency doesn't accept donations for facilities where children are reportedly being held in substandard conditions.
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Texas Tribune
1/ People are buying diapers, wipes, soaps and toys to donate to children in overcrowded migrant detention centers.
But they're being turned away. bit.ly/2X29n8J pic.twitter.com/wEXquQKWiy
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Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam
Insider: Google "is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.”Google Head of Responsible Innovation Says Elizabeth Warren "misguided" on "breaking up Google"Google
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Charlie Warzel
so it seems to me that this 'investigation' about Google's bias is really just a bunch of non technical ppl mixing up algorithmic bias w/ political bias. am i wrong? could one of you smart technologists who follow me explain?
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Colorado Supreme Court Upholds a Decision That Forced a Teenager to Register As a Sex Offender for Swapping Nude Selfies
That result "may strike some as unfair," the court says, but it's what state law required at the time.
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PhoneEtiquetteMattersHat
The law's not something abstract that just happens to people. Police and prosecutors decided to make this case.
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Jacob Sullum
Forcing a teenager to register as a sex offender for swapping nude selfies "may strike some as unfair," the Colorado Supreme Court says, but it's what state law required at the time.
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Five ways university presidents can prove their commitment to free speech
These five suggestions provide a path for presidents to prove their commitment to free speech by leading with basic, clear, and reasonable changes.
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Greg Lukianoff
If you care about #freespeech on campus please read this & RT: 5 ways University Presidents Can (Fairly Easily) Prove Their Commitment to Free Speech thefire.org/five-ways-univ… via @TheFIREorg
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The Problem With “When They See Us”
The Netflix four-part miniseries When They See Us, a dramatization of the story of the Central Park Five—the black and Hispanic teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York and later exonerated by a confession and DNA...
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The Bulwark
The prosecution of the Central Park Five was a terrible injustice. But viewing it through a lens of “wokeness” distorts reality. thebulwark.com/the-problem-wi… pic.twitter.com/7uBKBtvBuw
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Cathy Young
New from me at @BulwarkOnline: The #CentralParkFive case was a terrible injustice, but #WhenTheySeeUs offers a distorted view of the case and its implications.
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Bernie Sanders Wants To Cancel All Student Debt and Make College Free, at a Cost of $2.2 Trillion
The Vermont senator is clearly trying to outdo his main progressive rival, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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Robby Soave
Canceling 👏 all 👏 student 👏 debt 👏 would 👏 constitute 👏 a 👏bailout 👏 of 👏 relatively wealthy 👏more privileged 👏 people 👏 with 👏 better 👏 job 👏 prospects
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Robby Soave
I think my biggest problem with Bernie Sanders' b-o-n-k-e-r-s #CancelStudentDebt plan (which costs $2 trillion!) is that it's so crazy, it makes Elizabeth Warren's plan (a mere $1 trillion!) look sensible and moderate
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Making Sense Podcast #161 - Rise & Fall
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jared Diamond about the rise and fall of civilizations. They discuss political polarization, disparities in civilizational progress, the precariousness of democracy in the US, the...
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Sam Harris
Finally did a podcast with the great Jared Diamond (who has the good sense not to be on social media)
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This is not how I expected Monday to go! - Jen Gennai
I’ve spent the last 12 hours travelling back from Dublin to San Francisco, unaware of what was happening on the ground. When I touched…