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In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor... See more
Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
My colleague, the legal scholar Randall Kennedy is worth reading on anything. Today he writes on our colleague Ron Sullivan: Harvard Betrays a Law Professor — and Itself https://t.co/NHzHE7BZX1
Steven Pinkerx.comEric Hogensen
@chicofeinstein
We’re all trapped in the bodies of sly, social-climbing opportunists shaped to survive the savanna by policing each other.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
🚨MIKE BENZ: "Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was just named director of the NIH. That's one of the most inspiring stories. He was kicked off of Twitter, he was a premier scientist at Stanford, he was labeled a fringe epidemiologist by Fauci and company and now he just achieved the most premiere role in all of medicine.
It's like... See more
Autism Capital 🧩x.comHigher Ed Under Capitalism
Investigating the intersection of higher education and capitalism
Tara McMullin • 7 cards
I no longer make blanket denunciations of elites.
Why?
This guy has 1.1 million followers. But no gatekeeping institution — major scientific institution, mainstream media outlet, etc — would give him a platform.
Exhibit A in the case for the good sense of... See more
Richard Hananiax.comOver the past two decades, @bariweiss has watched as the inverted worldview of DEI has swallowed all of the crucial sense-making institutions of American life. Now, she says, “It is time to end DEI for good.”
Watch her entire monologue: https://t.co/KsAiauCW0W https://t.co/HTv0uKDTFS
The Free Pressx.com