Such a pleasure and honor to share the stage yesterday (May 27) with these thinkers (@slsatel, @byrne_a, @CHSommers & @ImHardcory), discussing whether science (and perhaps most everything else) has become "feminized." Check it out at @LeorSapir's link below.
After publishing Better Angels and Enlightenment Now, I learned that many academic historians become enraged if one notes anything bad that non-Western civilizations did (e.g., slavery, raiding and feuding, harems, human sacrifice, theocratic despots, suicide terrorism), or anything good that Western civilization did (e.g., The Enlightenment), despite the obvious fact that all civilizations did good and bad things, and everything has to come from somewhere. | Does Western Civilisation Exist? James Kierstead on Ancient Greece, Christianity, and the West | Quillette Cetera Ep. 63 https://t.co/V8FupiGECy
The innumeracy of narrative journalism: Long NYT essay on the fertility decline blames it on uncertainty due to rises in mortality, inequality, unemployment, work vulnerability, poverty, etc., without citing a single datum on how any of these have changed over time, nor even the simplest correlations with fertility. | Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All. https://t.co/IlG7Wosrdi
I'm using Waze to drive to TownePlace Suites by Marriott Ironton, 802 Washington St, Ironton, Ohio, arriving at 6:53 PM. Watch my drive in real-time on the Waze map! https://t.co/o2ZCM76MWX
Hard-left activists, particularly militant transgender ideologues and despisers of Israel, are laying waste to liberal organizations: ACLU, American Humanists, Planned Parenthood, Southern Poverty Law Center, Freedom from Religion Foundation, and now PEN America. Jerry Coyne: PEN accepts Palestine as a member and rejects Israel; Jewish chief executive resigns after accusations of being a “Zionist” and not signing on to Israel’s “genocide” – Why Evolution Is True https://t.co/WGIvHPPpuP
Best thing you will read all day/week/month/year Child, 4, arrived alone for heart surgery. His doctor became his mom. - The Washington Post https://t.co/EJB4MHo8kR
a thoughtful, balanced piece by Sally Satel (@slsatel) of @AEI and the Yale University School of Medicine. Wish I could put this essay in the hands of every policymaker who is making bad arguments and proposing misguided laws based upon bogus claims.
Can You Really Be ‘Addicted’ to Social Media? Addiction expert Sally Satel @slsatel examines the complexities and suggests that social media overuse is not like heroin addiction after all. https://t.co/K8hE1MMRYU