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Worth watching: "It is not a genocide; it is a counterattack in a war."
This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."
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RT @sapinker: Good summary of current research conclusions on Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities by Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWi…
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RT @sapinker: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”: Poetry in America’s guide to democracy and disagreement. Robert Frost Explain…
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RT @sapinker: Top 18 Quotes about Evolutionary Psychology open.substack.com/pub/steves…
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RT @sapinker: Worth watching: "It is not a genocide; it is a counterattack in a war."
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RT @sapinker: The degeneration of Nature, Science, NEJM, and Scientific American into woke propaganda dispensers (and their refusal to publ…
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RT @sapinker: Is AI really going to kill us all? The scenarios are preposterous, and the presumption of inevitability encourages fatalism,…
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Top 18 Quotes about Evolutionary Psychology open.substack.com/pub/steves…
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Should Internet slang be in the dictionary? When in the early 1960s Webster's Third International listed "ain't," commentators were enraged, not realizing that dictionaries record, rather than approving, usage, and that nonstandard and slang forms are always flagged as such. When I was Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, we polled good writers on their judgments, and would include (and label) slang only if they had shown some staying power (no one wants a dictionary cluttered with memes that lasted a nanosecond). nytimes.com/2026/09/17/magaz…
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Why John Coltrane still matters — Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto…
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Based on the Spanish Civil War song "Venga Jaleo," performed here by the Weavers: piped.video/7pu8EvYNLew?si=Wlxd…
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On International Peace Day: How Ideas Beyond Borders Helps Build the Conditions for Peace ideasbeyondborders.org/the-w…
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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”: Poetry in America’s guide to democracy and disagreement. Robert Frost Explains the Midterms to You, by my colleague (and host of the PBS series Poetry in America) Elisa New. poetryinamerica.substack.com…
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How therapy culture made us neurotic and quarrelsome. (Three insights on human nature from the late Robert Trivers are germane: Even the most intimate of human relationships have deep conflicts of interest (resolving them once and for all is impossible); people are self-deceived (so inevitably perceive themselves as selfless and others as selfish); men and women are not interchangeable. quillette.com/2026/09/18/cit…
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My obituary for Trivers, published earlier this year. quillette.com/2026/03/25/the…
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Excellent conversation here: Jerry Kaplan on Why AI Won’t Kill Us All (with @Yascha_Mounk). open.substack.com/pub/yascha…
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Good summary of current research conclusions on Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities by Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill open.substack.com/pub/steves…
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Is AI really going to kill us all? The scenarios are preposterous, and the presumption of inevitability encourages fatalism, panic, and distraction from the more mundane and realistic safety challenges. By @clairlemon theaustralian.com.au/inquire…
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