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Yes. And the Empathising-Systematising theory of psychological sex differences is very useful for understanding current fault-lines in culture wars & how these manifest in industries which sort people according to

The creepy conservative obsession with pedophilia is just bizarre. It reminds me of the feminist obsession with rape. Yes, sex offending is real, & it's awful. But imagine choosing to

The President of @Princeton, Christopher L. Eisgruber, has condemned this piece of writing by their professor, Joseph Katz, & the administration is apparently "looking into the matter further"https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter

'Cancel culture' is of course a cultural issue. But it's also an industrial relations issue. People are losing their jobs in industries where there's an oversupply of labour (academia, arts,

I'm not an Old White Straight Man. And I wasn't brought up on the right-side of the tracks. But I do not want to see Older Straight White Men (even

People have different motivations for participating in moral panics. Some are genuinely hypnotised by their religion or ideology. But some are just cynical opportunists who are out to settle old

Why are many anti-lockdown people also anti-mask? Since the widespread use of masks would make lockdowns unnecessary, it seems illogical to me. It feels like in some places (won't name

Ebola's death rate is so high, at 50%, that it stops the virus from spreading. The reproductive rate, R0, of regular flu is 1.3, for COVID-19 it appears to be

Tweet calling Bill Gates a “vaccine criminal” gets 19.6K retweets. Many on the Left lost their minds after 2016, but in 2020 it’s happening on the Righthttps://twitter.com/realcandaceo/status/1250441046586097675 Populists defending the