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How “woke” activism took over universities and descended into street riots
Nonsense becomes dogma, “woke” activists turn into left-wing authoritarians: the principles of the Enlightenment are collapsing faster than we might

Areo: Sex, Love, and Sexual Autism
Sex came first. It arrived before any concept of self or other, before there was care for anyone at all.

The Torment and Tragedy of Teenage Girls: A LetterWiki conversation with Abigal Shrier
Allow me to start 500 million years ago. Our ancestors have been reproducing sexually, with two sexes, for at least

14 True Things: Observations about protest, race, police and democracy in America
All of these things can be true. All of these things are true: 1. Systemic racism has a long history throughout the

A Values Proposition
This week, the Los Angeles Review of Books published a piece that includes the following sentence, about a man whom

The Boat Accident
I have often said to my students: Nature is not out to get you. In fact, the truth is worse.

International Women’s Day, and Its Discontents
Womanhood has been weaponized. Some will argue that feminism has always been aggressive and short-sighted, but I disagree. In 1914,

In the Footsteps of Those Who Came Before
The Yumbo people walked here for centuries. Now I walk through a cloud, green dripping all around, the call of

On Abortion: Time, Space, Error, and Ethics
Nobody wants an abortion. No woman wants one, and no man who has thought about the issue wants any woman