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27 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
My wife's terrific new book is out today. I am on social media, she wisely is not. Therefore in the style of a Bernie Sanders meme I am once again here asking you to buy it:
amazon.com/Mom-Genes-Scie…
If you need more inducement here is a positive review from someone who is not me:
wsj.com/articles/mom-g…
Here is an excerpt/adaptation:
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…
Here is Abby in conversation with the estimable @ProfEmilyOster:
emilyoster.substack.com/p/mom-genes-an…
And here are my own thoughts on how the book informs some of my policy obsessions:
douthat.substack.com/p/fertility-ki…
Like the Bernie meme I will return to ask you once again and once again to buy it, especially as Mother's Day draws near, but if you do so now you can safely tune me out:
amazon.com/Mom-Genes-Scie…

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I enjoyed this @mattyglesias take but he does not, in fact, bite the bullet implied by his analysis:
slowboring.com/p/meritocracy-…
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To celebrate publication day for The Decadent Society paperback, a Substack post on "post-liberal" responses to political decadence:
douthat.substack.com/p/the-rights-a…
The paperback itself, meanwhile, can now be yours without delay:
amazon.com/Decadent-Socie…
And you listen to me talking about decadence and conservatism, among other things, on @RealignmentPod:
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12 Mar
A week's worth of writing on decadence, a thread:
1. The Pandemic and The Decadent Society:
douthat.substack.com/p/the-pandemic…
2. Can Science End Decadence?
douthat.substack.com/p/can-science-…
3. The Implications of the 6th of January:
douthat.substack.com/p/the-implicat…
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A self-promotional thread:
The Decadent Society is out in paperback in about a week. It's new and improved! It has new material, not just a new subtitle! It addresses the rather un-decadent events that intervened just as the hardcover was coming out!:
amazon.com/Decadent-Socie…
I'm grateful to everyone who purchased The Decadent Society in hardcover. But I'll be honest: I think more of you would enjoy the book. So I've done what self-promoters do nowadays: Start a Substack with posts on the book and its themes. Here's the first:
douthat.substack.com/p/the-pandemic…
There will be, time permitting, about 10-12 more posts on decadence coming in that space over the next 2-3 weeks. After that, it will become a space for intermittent posts about TV, books and movies. If that sounds attractive, please subscribe.
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