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Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur the Left Loves to Hate
The Hive 12h 24 tweets
The Times op-ed writer is a Trump-loathing theater nerd who studied at a feminist yeshiva and used to date Kate McKinnon. She also led a controversial protest at Columbia, and popularized the “intellectual dark Web.” The contradictions of a...
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Thomas Chatterton Williams 🎧 this reminds me of the days when i couldn't wait to read a vanity fair profile 8h
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Kat Rosenfield Really enjoyed this profile of , first of her name, dater of Kate McKinnon, the Uncancellable 9h
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Bridget Phetasy Oh hey look at this hottie ⁦⁩ in Vanity Fair! 10h
PART THREE: The Hunted Individual
YouTube 15h 6 tweets
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Helen Pluckrose The Third Part of the Evergreen series by is here! I had to watch it in short bursts because it is alternately cringeworthy & rage-inducing. The entitlement of the students and the willingness of the faculty to humiliate themselves is too much. 15h
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Mike Nayna While researching this series I discovered that TESC was once something special. I wish I could have studied there while it was functional and I really do hope they find a way to pull it back together 15h
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Peter Boghossian Part 3 of ’s Evergreen Documentary was just released!! It is an incredibly revealing, insightful, and *insider* look at the Evergreen madness. 11h
Stop Assuming The Intellectual Dark Web Is A Political Movement
The Federalist 37h 8 tweets
What should intellectuals do when everything they believe in regarding individual liberty is recast as cultural imperialism?
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Eric Weinstein I have been relatively quiet for a reason. Amidst a large number of discussions misframing the IDW recently, I thought I was losing my mind. Even people close to me have become completely confused. Why?? This article gets it right to first approximation 37h
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Claire Lehmann Interesting piece from . My view is that *any* social group--no matter how principled & intelligent its members--is at risk of descending into dogmatism. Heterodoxy becomes orthodoxy pretty quickly without fresh perspectives & self-criticism 19h
'Fat Sex Therapist' compares fitness trainers to Nazis, children's dieting to sexual assault
Campus Reform 14h 4 tweets
That's a new one.
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Andy Ngo “I truly believe that a child cannot consent to being on a diet the same way a child cannot consent to having sex,” says non-binary fat activist S. Rashatwar at College. In ‘17, campus fell for massive #HateHoax targeting blacks by black student. 13h
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Yeyo You couldn't parody this 11h
Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality
Science 26h 1 tweets
What contributes to gender-associated differences in preferences such as the willingness to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity, and trust? Falk and Hermle studied 80,000 individuals in 76 countries who participated in...
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David Schmitt 80,000 people, 76 nations, representative sampling, reflecting 90% of both the world population...the more that women have equal opportunities, the more they differ from men in their preferences 26h
Kate Manne on why female candidates get ruled "unelectable" so quickly
Ezra Klein - Vox 37h 29 tweets
"Electability isn’t a static social fact, it’s a social fact we’re constructing."
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Bo Winegard 1. Thread: Is our society actually misogynistic? Ezra Klein has a new interview with Kate Manne at Vox, which contends that misogyny is one reason female Democrats are sinking behind the 4 B's--Biden, Buttigeig, Bernie, and Beto--in the polls. 34h
Attack of the Conservative Snowflakes
Cathy Young - Arc Digital 33h 4 tweets
With the “Easter worshipers” nontroversy, the PC outrage mobs are now on the right
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Cathy Young Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I wrote a piece about the #EasterWorshippers outrage moment 33h
Secular Humanism is Not a Religion
Quillette 30h 5 tweets
These days you can dismiss anything you don’t like by calling it “a religion.” Science, for instance, has been deemed essentially religious, despite the huge difference between a method of finding truth based on empirical verification and one based...
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Quillette Secular Humanism is Not a Religion | by Jerry A. Coyne 30h
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Steven Pinker Secular Humanism is Not a Religion via 11h
The Middlebury mess
Spectator USA 31h 4 tweets
Students at Middlebury College in Vermont are open to challenging ideas. Unfortunately, their administrators are not prepared to let that happen
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Samuel Abrams My thoughts on Middlebury and the importance of students pushing back and demanding viewpoint diversity. The Middlebury mess 31h
University hosts no-whites-allowed faculty and staff listening sessions — to promote inclusivity
The College Fix 6h 3 tweets
Workshops scheduled amid racial tensions.
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Christina Sommers University hosts no-whites-allowed faculty and staff listening sessions — to promote inclusivity | The College Fix 6h
Williams College to rework free speech policies after controversies
Insidehighered.com 40h 9 tweets
Williams plans to revise its policies after a faculty petition to adopt free speech guidelines enraged student activists.
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Christina Sommers Williams College was about to affirm its commitment to free speech. But small group of students felt “unsafe.” 29h
The Dearth of Conservatives in Academic Philosophy
Quillette 30h 4 tweets
It is no secret that conservative political views are underrepresented in the academy. In Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University, John A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Sr. cite surveys that put the number of...
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Quillette The Dearth of Conservatives in Academic Philosophy | by Tristan Rogers 30h
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Christina Sommers This—>The Dearth of Conservatives in Academic Philosophy - by ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ 30h
In Push for 2020 Election Security, Top Official Was Warned: Don’t Tell Trump
Nytimes.com 17h 34 tweets
As homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen became increasingly worried about Russian attempts to influence the 2020 election. But she couldn’t discuss it at high-level White House meetings.
I Was a Trump Transition Staffer, and I’ve Seen Enough. It’s Time for Impeachment.
The Atlantic 37h 31 tweets
I started out as a pragmatist, but the Mueller report was my tipping point.
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Jeffrey Goldberg A Trump transition staffer (and law professor) says enough is enough, and calls for impeachment (via ) 37h
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Yoni Appelbaum This, from , is well worth your time 37h
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John Harwood “I wanted to share my experience transitioning from Trump team member to pragmatist to advocate for impeachment because I think other Republicans are starting a similar transition. there’s a point at which blind devotion serves to enable criminal conduct” 37h
Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility
Nature.com 13h 25 tweets
Dorothy Bishop describes how threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control.
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Laura Scherer The resistance among the older generation that highlights remains highly problematic. It has at times affected my job satisfaction, my mental health, and my career trajectory. If you are senior, please express your support openly. It really helps 11h