Christina Sommers 🧢
Resident scholar, AEI. Former philosophy professor. Author of War Against Boys. Host of YouTube’s The Factual Feminist & co-host of weekly podcast
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The Science: Male Brain vs Female Brain
YouTube 43h 2 tweets
It's politically correct to say men and women are mentally the same, but Stossel lays out science that says otherwise -------- Don't miss a single video from...
Joker commentary- Diana Fleischman, Justin Murphy and Geoffrey Miller
YouTube 10d 2 tweets
Geoffrey Miller, Justin Murphy, and Diana Fleischman talk about The Joker film right after we saw it on Friday night. We talk about mental illness, heredity,...
Elizabeth Warren’s Regular Displays of Casual Contempt for Men
Commentary 18h 2 tweets
In her biography and her comments on the campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren often displays something less than affection for men.
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook Testifies Before Foreign Relations Committee
C-SPAN.org 17h 1 tweets
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concerning U.S. policy toward Iran.
Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker
FIRE 15h 1 tweets
The goal of FIRE’s Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker is to provide attorneys, faculty, students, and the general public with practical, accessible information about the rapidly evolving law surrounding due process and fair procedure in campus...
The Joker Is White
Cathy Young - Medium 43h 4 tweets
The controversy around the film highlights the politicization of culture — and tensions between the “class left” and the “identity left”
AP FACT CHECK: Claims from the Democratic debate
AP NEWS 32h 5 tweets
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve Democrats seeking the presidency tussled Tuesday night in a wide-ranging debate featuring the largest number of qualifying candidates on the same stage. Here's a...
Millions Of Jobs Have Been Lost To Automation. Economists Weigh In On What To Do About It
Forbes 105d 2 tweets
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation promise to usher in a new era of inexpensive goods, effortless personalization, and freedom from tedium. Yet beneath the surface of innovation a current of economic disenfranchisement threatens to sweep...
Hillary Clinton isn’t woke enough anymore
Washington Examiner 37h 1 tweets
In 2019, Hillary Clinton is definitely not woke enough.
Justice Breyer rejects Democratic plan to 'pack' Supreme Court: Nine seats 'is fine'
Washington Examiner 32h 1 tweets
Justice Stephen Breyer rebuffed a proposal to add more seats to the Supreme Court, saying instead that nine members “seems to work.”
LeBron James Sounds a Lot Like Chinese Propaganda in Critique of “Misinformed” Pro-Democracy Tweet
Slate Magazine 32h 1 tweets
"Yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too," James said.
A man's right to choose
Salon 32d 2 tweets
Is it fair that women have reproductive rights while men have reproductive responsibilities?
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Christina Sommers 🧢 Serious question: Do men have reproductive rights? Do they have the right to choose? 32h
Why Men Should Be More Ladylike, According to Hannah Gadsby
GQ 33h 11 tweets
We asked Gadsby, the truth-telling voice behind Nanette and Douglas (out on Netflix in 2020), what she'd like to see more men understand—and do.
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Christina Sommers 🧢 No thanks, I’ll pass. “Why Men Should Be More Ladylike, According to Hannah Gadsby” via 33h
Why Europe Axed Its Wealth Taxes
Cato Institute 34h 3 tweets
They raised little money and were a beast to administer.
Can Americans Unlearn Race?
The American Interest 37h 4 tweets
In his lucid new memoir, Thomas Chatterton Williams channels Albert Camus and James Baldwin—and offers a thoughtful counterpoint to the tired racial dogmas of both Right and Left.
The Drivers of Social Preferences: Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment, by Bharat Chandar; Uri Gneezy; John List; Ian Muir
Ideas.repec.org 46h 2 tweets
Even though social preferences affect nearly every facet of life, there exist many open questions on the economics of social preferences in markets. We leverage a unique opportunity to generate a large data set to inform the who's, what's, where's,...
Air Canada to stop announcing ‘ladies and gentlemen’ in recognition of gender fluidity
Washington Examiner 42h 2 tweets
Employees aboard Air Canada flights will no longer greet guests by referring to them as "ladies and gentlemen" or "mesdames et messieurs," which has been typical protocol for years, in an effort to be conscious of gender fluidity.
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Christina Sommers 🧢 Air Canada to stop announcing ‘ladies and gentlemen’ in recognition of gender fluidity 42h
The NBA is showing its true colors by bowing to China
Washington Examiner 6d 1 tweets
Amid the U.S.-China trade war, tensions have been escalating for a different reason: the National Basketball Association.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Bloomberg.com 3d 2 tweets
Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89
Nytimes.com 3d 42 tweets
A prolific author, he contended that literary giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka stood above writers admired by feminists, Marxists, “multiculturalists” and others.