Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)

There's been an assumption around for a while, ultimately grounded in psychoanalysis/psychotherapy, that *talking more* is the solution to our problems, that, by *revealing all*, we will deal with our problems - not just personal but societal, global - freely and openly. I think that dream has died. For the most part it creates chaos and confusions, generates as many problems as it solves, makes being with other people (and their various cultural productions) virtually unbearable. Dumping large dollops of the self into the public sphere does not make the world a better place. Just look at most reality TV for evidence of this. The human self ends up as a circus act, entertainment. In this context, reticence, fortitude - and the skill to do things other than talk and manipulate people - start to look much more attractive.

Just discovered my new favorite court case name.

Are White women the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action? That's a real claim that's commonly advanced by journalists, and the claim has gone so far that it's even made its way into academic publications and policy. But the claim is completely false🧵