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A university is not a mirror.
Students do not need a better-lit reflection of themselves. They need exposure to people who know things they don’t, see things they miss, and may even be wrong in useful ways.
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Mars Cheung
@SecularRonin
A believer in building a better world via dialectic with the aim towards the moral arc. Community Engagement Coordinator @AtheistsLiberty
San Diego, CA Katılım Ekim 2011
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The best advice I ever got came from @TheFIREorg co-founder Harvey Silverglate: “Pick your ten.”
Choose the small group of people whose judgment you actually trust, people who know you, love you, and will still tell you the truth when you’re wrong.
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Why the academia shifted its telos from truth (veritas) to "speaking truth to power," which has nothing to do with truth & everything to do with power.
They have embraced Marxist praxis:
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
open.substack.com/pub/conspicuou…
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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 open.substack.com/pub/quillette/…
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I wonder if there's anything in the Bible about golden idols and stuff
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
NEW: MAGA evangelical leaders gather in Mar-a-Lago to bless and dedicate a gold statue dedicate to Donald Trump.
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NEW EPISODE
Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More (Ep. 474)
Sam and Jaron discuss the launch of Making Sense Community, Sam’s Ben Shapiro conversation, NYT's embrace of Hasan Piker, Zohran Mamdani’s approach to Islamism, and the misuse of the word genocide.
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The first issue of @thefireorg’s FIRE Quarterly magazine with me as Managing Editor!
Thanks to amazing graphic design from Jackson Fleagle and contributions from several FIRE staff, this thing looks fantastic.
Want a copy? Become a FIRE member at fire.org/membership!
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@mysteriouskat Better Angels of Our Nature, The Moral Landscape, Free Speech by J Mchangama. The Blank Slate, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, End of Faith, The System of Liberty, Constitution of Knowledge, The Moral Arc, Why Evolution Is True, Faith Vs Fact, Discrimination and Disparities…
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There is a reason authoritarians censor first and justify it later.
When words are treated as violence, actual violence starts to look like self-defense. And that’s just societal regression with better branding.
Greg Lukianoff@glukianoff
Why does free speech have a “branding problem”? Part of it is simple. Once an institution becomes ideologically one-sided, it stops needing free speech and starts seeing it as a threat. That’s what I watched happen on campuses. A slow-motion train wreck.
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I'm very pleased and proud to be published by @JHUPress
Get your signed copies here:
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Doesn't matter whether you approve of the joke or despise it: It's extremely inappropriate for the president of the United States to pressure private companies to fire comedians who mock him.
The Right would've (rightly) melted down if Obama or Biden had ever done this.
The White House@WhiteHouse
President Donald J. Trump Calls on Disney and ABC to Fire Jimmy Kimmel Following His Despicable Call to Violence.
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We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I used to donate to) is, unfortunately, correct: It “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.” Among the targets in its McCarthyite "Hate Watch" list are ordinary academic behavioral geneticists whose research challenges the blank slate. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…
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Regardless of your personal views on Pride events, if you had to choose between living in one of two hypothetical countries you knew nothing about except that one had Pride events and the other had none, you would almost certainly prefer living in the country with Pride events.
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Joined @Yascha_Mounk to discuss the global free speech recession and how democracies are treating online speech not as a competitive advantage, but as a Trojan horse — from ineffective hate speech laws and militant democracy to the risks of ending anonymity.
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Unbelievable. I mean, not really unbelievable. But unbelievable.
Clash Report@clashreport
Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.
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"I just don't understand why Trump would post that."
Really? You don't understand why the guy who posted an AI video of himself wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet labeled "KING TRUMP," dropping an enormous volume of feces over Harry Sisson's head would post that?
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Nah. You’re either for Western civilization or you’re not.
Cenk Uygur@cenkuygur
The old dividing line was Left vs. Right. And I’m sure we’ll get back to that at some point. But right now, the new dividing lines are Patriots vs. Israelis. Grassroots vs Establishment. American forces have assembled online and can’t wait to defeat the establishment and MSM.
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