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Jul 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
I confess I am kind of surprised that the July Prestigious Ashurbanipal award goes to @tferriss for his book Tools of Titans. thefire.org/the-third-ever… 1/4
It opens as a weird health & fitness ride through #acroyoga (!?), "exogenous ketones", hyperbaric chambers, homemade punish saunas, & holding your breath for 7 minutes (why?) . A big reminder of NOT hard core I am. 2/4
Highlights of the book include @EricRWeinstein "bigoteers" (hey Eric, I'm dyslexic too!), @Gladwell's battle cry about the DESPERATE need for disruption of higher ed, the virtue of laziness, @GabbyGiffords just overall goodness & a simple reminder to look up to sky when mediating
And it's FREE on Amazon Prime as an #ebook! Wisdom abounds in this weird ride if you stick with it. I am already RE-reading it. 4/4

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THREAD: My latest Eternally Radical Idea newsletter responded to @DavidColeACLU’s review of my & @RIKKISCHLOTT’s newest book, The Canceling of the American Mind in @nybooks. 1/16

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Jun 7, 2022
THREAD: With FIRE’s expansion to off-campus work, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about #freespeech philosophy. My series with former ACLU President, the great Nadine Strossen answers common arguments against free speech. 1/18

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Mar 25, 2022
Much virtual ink is spilled over the term “cancel culture.” Conservatives complain about it while perpetuating it, some progressives deny that it exists. @TheFIREorg’s @Komi_Tea & I explain in our recent piece for @thedailybeast. 1/12

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Last week, @nytimes published an editorial on America’s “#FreeSpeech problem,” citing a poll that showed that over the past year, 55% of respondents self-censored for fear of retaliation or harsh criticism. 2/12

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Mar 11, 2022
THREAD: Free speech culture didn’t come out of nowhere, it’s been built on the foundation of centuries of conflict, philosophy & law. If you want to brush up on the history, look no further than my #FreeSpeech Culture Study List. 1/18

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Mar 10, 2022
THREAD: Former @TheFIREorg intern @emmma_camp_ published a terrific essay in @nytimes about the stifling climate on college campuses. As if to prove her point, her piece was met with outrage & denial in a predictable culture war pattern. 1/16

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.@TheFIREorg’s @JordanmHowell & Sean Stevens came to @emmma_camp_’s defense with a detailed refutation of false (& mostly recycled) criticisms of the @nytimes piece. 2/16

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As @JordanmHowell & Sean argue, most of the critiques of the survey data @emmma_camp_ cited are baseless. The detractors misrepresent the cited campus free speech survey’s methodology. 3/16
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Dec 17, 2021
THREAD: This week I am in @reason Magazine with a feature on ‘The Second Great Age of Political Correctness.’ By the mid-90s “PC” had become a joke, derided across the political spectrum See: the (not good) Jeremy Piven movie PCU. 1/14

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Stanford’s infamous speech code banning insults & stigmatization was struck down in court in 1995, one of a half dozen losses for speech codes, but they STILL proliferated. By 2009 74% of universities had extremely restrictive speech codes. 3/14
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