Jonathan Leaf

Playwright, Novelist. Wrote THE PRIMATE MYTH, revolutionary book Publishers Weekly calls "Smart, provocative reconsideration of humanity's evolutionary history"

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Here's @JonahGoldberg's wonderful conversation with me about my new book The Primate Myth. @thedispatch https://t.co/Ws8N3P5Cuw

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@Moeof1967 No. The only thing it tells me is that you hate Jews. The question of whether you favor equality and democracy you have completely evaded. Where do Arabs have democracy & personal freedom in the Middle East? We all know the answer: Israel. So your claim of liberation is Orwellian

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@KatyaSedgwick @Moeof1967 says he's for Palestinian Liberation. Interesting question: What does he mean by that? Should they be even more "liberated" than they were under Hamas? Perhaps more brutalization of gays and women? More autocracy and more working towards an Islamic caliphate?

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@mark_bauerlein @avidseries I dropped Latin. I was struggling in it. I don't say that proudly. When students knew Latin, they really knew English.

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@rkylesmith @kevinnbass This describes the bulk of what goes on in sociology and anthropology.

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@haivry @PaliNewsNetwork Also, that's rather a short sentence for commiting SIX murders. BTW, four of those Sinwar was convicted of killing were Palestinian. This tells you everything about how @palinewsnetwork values the lives of Palestinians.

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@CaitlinPacific @BenSasse This is correct. Just look up Blaine Laws in even liberal sources like Wikipedia.

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@portraitinflesh Funny.

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@JackoWilliams64 @willchamberlain She's older than he is. But she's a politician (i.e. dumb).

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@JoePKroll Amazing to consider that Taylor was far-left politically and actually defended Stalin.

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@frazerrice He couldn't be any worse.

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@AStuttaford Maybe everyone should be allowed to carry a small knife?...Sikhism appeared in India in the 1600s as a response to Moghul (Muslim) rule and oppression. Part of that was a requirement that males be armed and take the name Singh (i.e. lion).

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@frazerrice Average for Asian-American males is something like 5'7". Jensen Huang isn't short for someone of his ancestry.

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@frazerrice Average American male height is 5'9 1/2".

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@haivry @richimedhurst It's extraordinary.

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@JackoWilliams64 @AnneOatley That I read and liked.

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@JackoWilliams64 @AnneOatley I've only read one of her books: Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. I can't say that I loved it. It was more interesting than great. More than a few claim that Wolf Hall is very worth reading.

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@carney Obvious question: given the low marks in Statistics, can we trust the data?

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My latest Substack looks at the (near) crisis caused by overuse of the word crisis. https://t.co/46tiBEA5C7