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Just as New Atheism was a projection of the War on Terror, saying “religion is bad” in order to avoid saying “Islam is bad,” these books bashing the tribalism of the populists feel like misdirected panic at seeing the Western world’s WEIRDness slipping away.
Related, new Substack review of “WEIRDest People in the World”: thepsmiths.substack.com/p/review-the-w…
It’s true, impartial liberalism that transcends clannishness made the First World great, and those distinctive values are currently slipping away as we come to resemble the rest of the world where tribalism rules—but Trumpy populists are not the reason why that is happening!

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Mar 19
Sorry, Ross, but this is a very inadequate definition of wokeness, seemingly designed to appeal to Bill Maher types who think trans stuff goes a bit far but are still good liberals in every other respect. Is that kind of anti-wokeness really sufficient? nytimes.com/2023/03/18/opi…
We don't need a column telling nice liberals, "You may not realize it, but your sane opinions make you anti-woke." We need one telling anti-woke liberals, "If your only anti-woke opinion is that trans stuff sometimes goes too far, then you're effectively just woke on time delay."
Just once I'd like to see an anti-woke liberal say: All my life I've been sneering at social conservatives as dumb, but after this trans stuff I went back to see what else they might have been right about, and I changed my mind on (gay marriage, porn, crime, Trump, whatever).
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Mar 16
"Before the alcohol ban expired last year, a coalition of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organizations predicted that a sudden free flow of alcohol would produce a sharp rise in crime... The predictions proved accurate." nytimes.com/2023/03/12/wor…
This is an absurdly tendentious way to describe the Northern Territory Intervention. The epidemic of Aboriginal child sexual abuse wasn't a "handful" of cherry-picked atrocity tales, it was a genuine human rights crisis. nytimes.com/2023/03/12/wor… Image
From 2007: brisbanetimes.com.au/national/stds-… Image
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Mar 5
I had no idea Allen Drury (Advise & Consent) wrote a book on South Africa. It's shockingly sound.

ANC guy: "Take this message back: we will have a revolution."
"So far I haven't seen many signs of it."
"You wouldn't, coming from outside."
"Maybe, but you don't convince me much."
"Aren't the natives getting better pay all the time?"
"You should see their houses!"
"From what I've seen, they appear fairly adequate. Not mansions, but adequate."
"Why shouldn't we have mansions?"
"I'm not saying you shouldn't, if you earn them."
"So you don't have the leaders. So you don't have the skills."
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Oct 8, 2022
Controversial but correct. Everything you think of as "wokeness" is just a reflection of demographic feminization. When professions become majority female, they change in predictable ways.
The Quillette article is about academia. Do you know another profession that is demographically feminizing? The law. Enrollment in law schools has been majority female since 2016, now at 55%. (Chart from ABA.) Anticipate more changes along recent lines as this trend continues!
I knew a guy who switched midcareer from private sector to a nonprofit. "There's so much more office politics here! I have to be on tiptoes about people's feelings. Everyone needs to feel involved in every decision." He chalked it up to nonprofits lacking bottom-line discipline…
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Jul 14, 2022
Breaking Emmett Till news (for real): Carolyn Bryant Donham’s memoir, “More Than a Wolf Whistle,” was supposed to be sealed until her death, but someone leaked it to a reporter and the full PDF is online: newsone.com/4372129/caroly…
Here is her description of the encounter. It sounds like Timothy Tyson was indeed wrong to claim that she had recanted her story.
A black bystander, who may have seen the encounter through the window, told her as she was getting her gun from the car, “Mrs. Roy, I think you need to go inside and lock the door.”
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Jul 13, 2022
The Interior Department is trying to import a playbook on Indian schools from Canada and Australia. But considering its legacy in those places—lies, dysfunction, burning churches—why on earth would we want that here? My latest from the new print issue: theamericanconservative.com/stirring-up-ha…
I lived for many years in Australia, and I can tell you that the movement to equate assimilation with genocide and blame all problems on the "Stolen Generations" has caused more suffering than you can believe. theamericanconservative.com/stirring-up-ha…
The first "Truth & Reconciliation" listening sessions have already started here in the US. Unfortunately, these commissions have a record of producing neither truth nor reconciliation. theamericanconservative.com/stirring-up-ha…
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