Ideology is what we use to turn IQ points against themselves.

America is the best. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

But part of what makes America awesome is that the government can't compel our allegiance.

Forced patriotism is no patriotism at all. We pledge to help this Maryland school learn that important lesson.
thefire.org/news/pledge-al… FIRE

I saw a friend on Facebook contemptuously post “Supreme Court sides with NRA.” No, the Supreme Court *unanimously* sided with the First Amendment & we should all be happy that it did, for all of our rights.

Excellent decision by Syracuse University! Well done 🍊🍊🍊🍊

The dominos, they fall …

Great conversation here between Sam Harris & ⁦Greg Lukianoff⁩. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mak…

I need your help! Please check out this review of Abigail Shrier book, Bad Therapy, and check out the Perfect Rhetorical Fortress. I want to improve & deepen our analysis, so are there stages that we are missing from any of the rhetorical fortresses? Please let me know!

So Rikki Schlott & I just met with our editor Simon & Schuster & are beginning work on the paperback of Canceling of the American Mind.

Let me know what you’d like to see in the next edition! (Probably not out until March 2025, so still plenty of time to read it & give feedback!)

Giving infants peanuts prevents peanut allergies in adolescence, new study finds.

The American Academy of Pediatrics got this wrong, putting out a guidance in 2000 recommending not giving children under 3 peanuts. The AAP later backtracked.
eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
dx.doi.org/10.1056/EVIDoa…

Great news but the entire Higher Ed industry has a long, long way to go.

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“As people get wind of how dissenters are treated, many will come to the conclusion that they simply can’t trust psychologists on controversial topics. And the sad thing is that they’ll right not to trust us, because we’re not being open and honest.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/fear-and-loa…

.FIRE and EFF pull off 'a rare legal manoeuvre' in Australia, according to ABC Australia.

abc.net.au/news/2024-05-2…

All the colleges should do this. (They should have done it years ago but better late than never.)

Seems to me that Harvard has adopted the Kalven report while claiming that they haven't adopted the Kalven report. As a fan of the Kalven report, I'll take it.
nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opi…