We're still reeling from the implications of our library's latest addition. Let's dig in.

As the world's staunchest defender of democracy nears Election Day, Amy Chua's "World on Fire" is the perfect contemplation on why Western democracy is more a unicorn than the standard.
1/ 20+ years after publishing, as intellectuals everywhere still tout the democratic salve, it's clear not enough people were listening. The Yale professor who popularized the "Tiger mom" archetype gifts us a lesser-known and arguably meatier concept: "market-dominant minorities"
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"The Bell Curve" by Charles Murray & Richard Herrnstein caused an intellectual firestorm in 1994 with its forthright findings on IQ, race & inequality. 25 years later, it's still shaping debates. Why is it that this book has stood the test of time?

Let's explore 🧵 When "The Bell Curve" hit shelves in 1994, it was like a bomb going off in the social sciences. Murray, a political scientist at a conservative think tank, and Herrnstein, a Harvard psychologist, had penned a 900-page tome about the nature and importance of intelligence.

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