Kay Hymowitz

William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal. 5 Books, including: Marriage and Caste in America

[Kay Hymowitz @KayHymowitz]

Don't worry about Iran or the economy or ANYTHING because our President is a genius.🙃

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

There should be song, plays, statues and poems commemorating her!

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[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

One of the few declassified IDF drone videos from high altitude over Gaza.

First 5-7 seconds: Watch Hamas rockets launching from right in the middle of civilian areas. The IDF then tracks the exact launch sites in real time and destroys them with precision strikes.

This is the reality behind the “indiscriminate bombing” lie.

Hamas hides among civilians, IDF targets the terrorists.

Share this. The truth needs to be seen. 🇮🇱

[Kay Hymowitz @KayHymowitz]

give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Rare footage from a kindergarten graduation party in Gaza in 2016.

Palestinian children in Gaza are taught to be terrorists.

They have been planning October 7 for decades, brainwashing their children to join Hamas.

Share this. Make it go viral. The world must see this.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Rare footage from a kindergarten graduation party in Gaza in 2016.

Palestinian children in Gaza are taught to be terrorists.

They have been planning October 7 for decades, brainwashing their children to join Hamas.

Share this. Make it go viral. The world must see this.

[Kay Hymowitz @KayHymowitz]

the digital generation

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Parents gave their kids just 4 minutes to figure out how to use a rotary dial phone.

The confusion was instant.

Gen Z vs old school tech is pretty hilarious

[Joe Redden | The Older Millennial @teameffujoe]

This anonymous bot account posts a video saying the IDF killed an innocent 14 year old boy, and it’s quickly on its way to millions of views…

Meanwhile, here’s the full video of the kid walking up and stabbing IDF soldiers before being shot, and it won’t break 100k.

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

Insanely clever marketing.

It’s a water stencil so what they’re doing is power washing the sidewalk and creating the words with the dirt that remains.

[Stan Veuger @stanveuger]

Better economic analysis from Wallace Shawn than 99% of what we see here: “In a way, I’m still downwardly mobile from my parents…But I don’t think my mother ever had a cappuccino. So am I downwardly mobile or upwardly mobile? Because I can have cappuccinos all the time.”

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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

I understand you’re not supposed to say you are opposed to a Palestinian state. But this clip is why I think you have to be out of your mind to want it.

Here is a clip of a wife of a clip of a senior Palestinian leader THRILLED that four of her children died trying to destroy Israel. She considers it a “sweet miracle.”

These are not rational actors. They can’t be any peace until the Palestinians renounce violence and that’s just a fact.

[Kay Hymowitz @KayHymowitz]

but at least it allows everyone to join the hate-the-rich club. https://t.co/hsjDPn6yIX

[Kay Hymowitz @KayHymowitz]

“My definition of working class... is anybody who makes money from wages,” Graham Platner says. Guess that includes his grandfather the architect, his father, the lawyer, an accountant who inherited a small trust fund for his kids' college education. It's meaningless populism

[Kay Hymowitz @KayHymowitz]

thank you for doing so

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Peru, a growing trend is transforming traditional funerals into festive celebrations through "dancing undertakers" (los portadores bailarini), offering a cheerful alternative to solemn mourning.

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

🚨 WOW: San Diego mosque shooters manifesto: “all [problems] can be traced back to or be caused by one group, the Jews.”

[Kay Hymowitz @KayHymowitz]

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[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

24/ What makes the "Nakba" unique is only that it was never allowed to resolve. Arab states reject Israel’s legitimacy because its Jewish. International bodies such as UNRWA helped entrench a system where the conflict remained permanently alive rather than settled.

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[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Oil Tanker Slips Anonymously Through Strait Of Hormuz By Adding Fake Nose And Mustache https://t.co/YC7QNajnV2