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To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe
Scott Alexander has responded to my advice that we should not imagine ourselves to be living in some sort of revolutionary epoch.
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The NFL Media's Hypocrisy Never Quits
Last night, the Buffalo Bill played their AFC East rivals the Miami Dolphins, who they proceeded to wallop. Up until the middle of the third quarter…
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You Have to Be an Absolute Lunatic to Believe That the Trump Assassination Attempt Was an "Op"
I find the rise of BlueMAGA very disturbing, and I’m surprised more people don’t.
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Education and Genes Grab Bag
A reader points me in the direction of new research (study, writeup) that shows the largest associations yet between polygenic scores and educational…
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The Temporal Copernican Principle
what are the odds that you live in the most important period of human existence?
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I Feel Like People Are Plotting to Kill Me Every Minute of Every Day!
I know that sounds dramatic.
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You Don't Have to be a Try Guy
decency and integrity do not grow out of performative harmlessness
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August 2024

Tutoring Undermines the Validity of GPA More Than the Validity of SAT Scores
GPA, a metric with holes big enough to drive an ideology through
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"Support to Raheem 'Did Not Come with Expectations of Meeting Project Deliverables'"
A brutal line from a brutal piece, about a nonprofit founder that took advantage of post-George Floyd fundraising largesse to enjoy a lavish lifestyle…
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Liberalism Cannot Produce Outcomes Satisfactory to Liberals
and any sufficient equality of opportunity simply is an equality of outcome
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Kamala Harris Isn't Winning This Race Yet
this is some very premature football-spiking
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Yes, It's Easy to Defend Social Justice Politics if You Pretend Social Justice Politics Are Just Liberalism
but, as the practitioners of those politics have always insisted, they aren't
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