Thursday: Hili dialogue

40 thoughts on “Thursday: Hili dialogue”

1. I have a large tiki in the shape of a Coke bottle that I call John Frum.

2. Speaking of gender, I recommend Alex Byrne’s new book Trouble with Gender (Polity, 2024), the title of which is an allusion to Judith Butler’s famous book Gender Trouble. (By the way, Byrne is Carole Hooven’s husband.)

   Here’s Byrne (Professor of Philosophy at MIT) talking about the subject matter of his book:

   1. I just started Kara Dansky’s latest book, The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls. Too early to give a judgement, but it’s pretty good so far.

3. On this day:
   1493 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.

   1764 – The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).

   1870 – Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, US, and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.

   1879 – Women’s rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

   1923 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.

   1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.

   1933 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6.

   1942 – World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.

   1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

   1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

   1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.

   1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.

   1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

   1971 – The decimalisation of the currencies of the United Kingdom and Ireland is completed on Decimal Day.

   1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.

   1989 – Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.

   1992 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to 15 terms of life in prison.

   2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.

   2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million and 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.

   2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.

   Births:
   1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1642).

   1748 – Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (d. 1832).

   1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist and activist (d. 1906).

   1850 – Sophie Bryant, Irish mathematician, academic and activist (d. 1922). [Today’s Woman of the Day, see next post below.]

   1874 – Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish captain and explorer (d. 1922).

   1909 – Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian, helped hide Anne Frank and her family (d. 2010).

   1910 – Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian, Righteous Gentile (d. 2008).

   1931 – Claire Bloom, English actress.

   1935 – Roger B. Chaffee, American lieutenant, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967).

   1941 – Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer.

   1948 – Art Spiegelman, Swedish-American cartoonist and critic.

   1951 – Jane Seymour, English-American actress, producer, and jewelry designer.

   1954 – Matt Groening, American animator, producer, and screenwriter.

   1964 – Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (d. 1997).

   1984 – Gary Clark Jr., American singer-songwriter and musician.

   This dying is boring. (Richard Feynman):
   1600 – José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. 1540). [His deductions regarding the ill effects of crossing over the Andes in 1570 related to the atmosphere being too thin for human needs; a variety of altitude sickness is now referred to as Acosta’s disease.]

   1842 – Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (b. 1754).

   1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804).

   1932 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865).

   1933 – Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887).

   1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919).

   1981 – Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943).

   1984 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (b. 1908).

   1988 – Richard Feynman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918).

   1998 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (b. 1908).

   1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926).

   2007 – Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915).

   2010 – Jeanne M. Holm, American general (b. 1921). [First female one-star general of the United States Air Force and the first female two-star general in any service branch of the United States. Holm was a driving force behind the expansion of women’s roles in the Air Force.]

   2013 – Ahmed Rajib Haider, Bangladeshi atheist blogger. [After comments he posted online about religious fundamentalism, he was hacked to death by machete-wielding terrorists from a militant group named Ansarullah Bangla Team. He was the first protester killed during the Shahbag movement.]

   2014 – Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1924).

   2020 – Caroline Flack, English actress and TV presenter (b. 1979).

   2023 – Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1940).

   1. Woman of the Day
      [Text from Wikipedia]

      Sophie Willock Bryant (born on this day in 1850, died 14 August 1922) was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist. She was the first woman to receive a DSc in England; and one of the first to serve on a Royal Commission and on the Senate of the University of London.

      Bryant was born Sophie Willock in Dublin in 1850. Her father was Revd Dr William Willock DD, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. She was educated at home, largely by her father. As a teenager she moved to London, when her father was appointed Professor of Geometry at the University of London in 1863, and she attended Bedford College. At the age of nineteen she married Dr William Hicks Bryant, a surgeon ten years older than she was, who died of cirrhosis within a year.

      In 1875 Bryant became a teacher and was invited by Frances Mary Buss to join the staff of North London Collegiate School. In 1895 she succeeded Miss Buss as headmistress of North London Collegiate, serving until 1918.

      When the University of London opened its degree courses to women in 1878, she started attending. In 1881, she became one of the first women to obtain a First Class Honours degree, in her case a BSc, in the first year that a British university awarded degrees to women. This was in Mental and Moral Sciences (Philosophy). She was awarded second class honours in mathematics. In 1884, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in Mental and Moral Sciences. In 1882 she was the third woman to be elected to the London Mathematical Society, and was the first active female member, publishing her first paper with the Society in 1884. Together with Charles Smith, Bryant edited three volumes of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, for the use of schools (Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, books I and II (1897); Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, books III and IV (1899); Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, books VI and IX (1901)).

      Sophie Bryant was a pioneer in education for women. She was the first woman to receive a DSc in England; one of the first three women to be appointed to a Royal Commission, the Bryce commission on Secondary Education in 1894–1895; and one of the first three women to be appointed to the Senate of the University of London. When Trinity College Dublin opened its degrees to women, Bryant was one of the first to be awarded an honorary doctorate. She was also instrumental in setting up the Cambridge Training College for Women, now Hughes Hall, Cambridge. She is also said to have been one of the first women to own a bicycle.

      While in London, she was a member of the London Ethical Society, an early humanist community which advocated moral living independent of religion. She was interested in Irish politics, wrote books on Irish history and ancient Irish law (Celtic Ireland (1889), The Genius of the Gael (1913)), and was an ardent Irish nationalist from a Protestant family background. She was president of the Irish National Literary Society in 1914. She supported women’s suffrage but advocated postponement until women were better educated. She serve on consultative committees of the national Board of Education with other suffragists like Isabel Cleghorn.

      Bryant loved physical activity and the outdoors. She rowed, cycled, and swam, and twice climbed the Matterhorn. She died in a hiking accident in the Alps in 1922, age 72.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bryant

   2. 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million and 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.

      Or perhaps “making it the largest peace demonstration failure in history.” In February 2003, Iraq hadn’t even been invaded yet…that happened on March 20th, 2003. I’m sure it made a lot of people feel good though…thoughts and prayers.

4. Former president Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican front-runner in the presidential campaign, boasted of his role in influencing lawmakers to block the border bill, which he said would have benefited Biden politically.

   Sic transit the “country first” Republicanism of John McCain.

   1. I think this will end up benefitting Biden anyway. People see, and it’s easy to spin, that Republicans either don’t take the border fiasco seriously, or they’re not serious about fixing it.

      Plus it shows what an idiot Ron Johnson is. Hasn’t anyone in the GOP figured out that following Trump’s whims is a harbinger of doom? It reminds me of that famous Einstein quote about insanity…

5. Liam Morrison

   I’m not sure how I missed that before…

   This is what a modern struggle session is like – public humiliation for free thought. The “Don’t Tread On Me” kid from last summer, too. These crises-which-should-not-exist inexorably lead the people to make the friend/enemy distinction (Mao used this). Liam Morrison joins the Gadsen Flag kid – and anyone who backed them up – as enemy.

   Inside the school (with “gender” on the signage), Social Emotional Learning (since ~1994) uses emotion to coerce conformity and punish free thought, so Morrison will be struggled there too as being against “safety” or “kindness”, and to muster his “resilience” or “empathy” to take the brainwashing in the struggle session to see from the peoples’ standpoint – perhaps as an option in a meeting with the Gay-Straight Alliance club.

   The quotes are not scare quotes – the exoteric terms (everyone has a general idea of the meaning) have substantial literature behind them as the esoteric, true meaning (known only to SEL wizards).

   Great call on the 1969 Supreme Court “armband” decision.

6. PBS’s “Nova” did a fascinating episode on the Nazca lines about a year ago. Well worth watching: https://www.pbs.org/video/nazca-desert-mystery-66vtkw/

7. When I look back on my eight years of service on a local school board in the 80’s and 90’s, I think that I cast two wrong votes, one of which dealt with a Tinker case much like this one: A middle school student had come to school in a t-shirt which said “Its a black thing..you wouldn’t understand me”. He had suffered the same fate at the hands of his principal as the young man in today’s story. His mother appealed the ruling to the school board saying that the addition of the word “me” took away the racial stereotyping of just black versus white. The administration supported the principal saying (that old nugget which we still see here today) it could trigger disorder or a fight in the classroom. I had read Tinker and understood (but obviously not very well) the particular importance of allowing broad political speech (the Tinker case involved anti-war black armbands i believe), even raised the Tinker case in our board discussion, but I folded and along with my six board colleagues, ruled in support of the administration. I felt uneasy, but I did it and was wrong.

   1. “I did it and was wrong”

      Conflict resolution and societal flourishing work best with classical liberalism – but utopia it will never produce.

      Dialectical thought manipulation has proven to be the worst way to support society.

      I posit that being “wrong” (for argument sake) is an exception that proves that rule. Nothing to regret – but everything to grow upon – there, and on an individual basis.

8. Number of responses to Princeton president article versus those to Layla: in my case, I seem to be slower than the average reader on this site and sometimes it takes me well into the evening to fully understand some of the deeper or lengthier articles, develop an opinion and create a response. By then I feel it is too late to engage with other readers, so don’t comment. You have stimulated my brain, but I am just not sharp enough to make a timely and thoughtful reply before the end of the day. The same thing happened with the article on Lucy, the Arab Israeli Muslim. It was a very important post to me and I finally got my thoughts together but it was a day later.

   1. Re the Princeton/Layla responses, I’m very much in the same way as Jim B but maybe even slower than he, and certainly nowhere near as confident in whatever opinion may be forming in my mind – something that’s always plagued me except in my old trades of carpenter/decorator. There, I was fairly quick to say there’s a solution to your problem; I can sort that out, and set a date for being on-site – then off sharpish to the library (or Google more recently) to find out what I needed to do.

      Always very interested in your scientific posts, Prof, and the following comments by those much more learned and experienced than I am. And the news, videos and many comments on the October 7th outrage have been very enlightening and helpful in firming up my thoughts about this great injustice, and the foolishness of so, so many Westerners, including old friends whom I would have thought had more humanity and intelligence to bring to bear on the issue but sadly were lacking there.

      Obviously, what you decide to do with this site is very much up to you but I am very thankful for the work you do, and have done, in support of science, humanity, quirkiness in every day life – and ducks, of course. With best wishes, Ross.

      1. Yes. What Ross said!

      2. Well said.

      3. Completely agree. See how late this comment is? Also, I am (i) on the West Coast and (ii) unable to review WEIT until later in the morning or afternoon and therefore feel that I am always behind everyone else anyway. So some comments go unmade…

         But this site is VERY much appreciated.

   2. I would just add, regarding the comments issue, that WordPress has made it more difficult to comment, because I’m unable to do it in my “reader” tab, and so have to open a second tab if I want to see the comments or make one. This modest barrier decreases my likelihood of commenting–not to zero, obviously, but it shifts the equilibrium.

   3. Boy can I relate to the “slow” part of Jim’s comment. I’ve always been a painfully slow reader and often can’t get to all the day’s posts until it is far too late to comment. Also like others, I don’t feel my comments are up to par and/or might be redundant. I love this website (I almost wrote “blog”, oh no!), would miss it horribly if it weren’t here and, lastly, I learn so much every day! I’m forever sending notes to myself, “Read this”, “Check this out”, etc. I think that it is a mistake to judge the value and popularity of this website merely by the number of comments.

9. Liam Morrison should have stood his ground based on Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights:

   “1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
   2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the
   prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.”

   1. One might think or hope so, but European or International Declarations of Human Rights would get little or no purchase in a discussion of any issue by a local Virginia (in my case) or Middleborough (Liam) school board I fear. We worked under the Commonwealth of Virginia constitution and, sometimes, grudgingly it seemed, under SCOTUS rulings. Tinker would have more resonance with a local school board than Article 10. Such is the nature of local government.

10. The Princeton post was great, but since I agreed with what you said, there was no reason to comment. You should not take silence as lack of interest. Those posts are the best.

    1. I agree. Very often I read something and don’t comment because I feel it would be redundant and they said it better than I would.

       1. I would like to add that I appreciate you putting out the site SEVEN DAYS a week even when you’re not feeling well or are on the road. It is easy to take for granted because I turn on my phone and WEIT is there. I don’t know of any other site like this and I appreciate it, including the comments. Especially how the comments expand and illuminate the text.

11. It was definitely easier to comment on the Layla post. Everyone knows the song and can form an instant, and valid, opinion. On the Princeton matter, it’s more complex and not everyone is willing to go out on a limb. That’s my take on the numbers of responses.

    Israel. I was saddened when I read of the Israeli soldier Benjo’s death. I gazed at her picture for a few minutes in remembrance.

    Israel’s defensive attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon are completely appropriate, as was the mission to rescue the hostages in Rafah the other day. Let’s not forget that Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7, breaking a cease fire, and has been attacked almost daily by rocket fire from both Hamas and Hezbollah ever since. Israel has a right and a duty to respond. Rockets fired into Israel from Gaza and Lebanon must be answered. Imagine terrorists lobbing rockets into your neighborhood.

    The planned operation in Rafah must go on, unless Hamas surrenders or Hamas leadership is disposed of. Four battalions remain in Rafah, and those battalions + the remaining Hamas leaders can reconstitute their forces and commit October 7 atrocities again, and again, … if they are not eliminated. The American administration insists that Israel develop a plan to limit civilian casualties. Israeli leadership is doing that. No other military force has ever taken such steps to protect civilians in a war zone: https://www.newsweek.com/israel-implemented-more-measures-prevent-civilian-casualties-any-other-nation-history-opinion-1865613.

    The next few days and weeks will be decisive.

    1. >I gazed at her picture for a few minutes in remembrance.

       “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
       Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
       At the going down of the sun and in the morning
       We will remember them.”

       Laurence Binyon, from “For the Fallen”, 1914.

12. I am a daily reader, having been one for years. If I’m away from the Internet for a time, I catch up as soon as I can. Granted, I’ve been commenting less often than before, but there’s a reason for my silence: I’m demoralized. About U.S. politics, the Russian-Ukraine war, the horrors of Hamas. . . but most of all by the self-mutilation of U.S. higher education. I am an emeritus professor of literature and cannot sufficiently express my dismay over the general failure of what was–not that long ago–an institution we could be proud of, indeed were proud to show to the world. The Princeton business is just one more almost daily occasion to be ashamed of my profession. Or to rage at it . . .

    This hurts, and so I palliate the pain by not looking, not speaking. . . . Yet WEIT is a necessity in my life.

13. I’m sorry you feel the site is moribund. I hope there are other statistics about it (I bet google collects EVERYTHING) that will re-assure you that there are many who read WEIT regularly but don’t wish to make comments.

    This website is truly an island, a place of refuge, in a sea of internet sewage. The intertubes are a vast wasteland dotted here and there with sanctuaries like WEIT. But this one is special filled, as it is, with reason, science, civility and cats.

    I hope you understand that as long as you are able to keep it going, for many of us WEIT will be a uniquely valuable, even cherished internet place.

    All the best

    1. It doesn’t seem moribund to me.

       1. Agreed. WEIT is my first goto every morning. That and my wee shot of espresso! I prefer to read a day late so that I can absorb the full range of commentary. I’ve looked but have never found a source any where near what you do here, Jerry. Many thanks to you.

14. My L/P words have been forestalled
    “Leslie MacMillan
    February 14, 2024 at 4:06 pm
    One reason might be that your take on it is so thorough and well-reasoned that it is not controversial enough to draw comments. That was my sincere view of your post. ”

    [And there were only 13 real comments on Layla – 2 were off topic and one was by host. I started looking at Princeton comments (how to classify DrBrydon’s ?) and saw Leslie MacMillan’s words which are my thoughts. Of course, if wished for, we could all become Dittoheads.]

15. Reading this blog is the highlight of my mornings and I look forward to reading it for a long time.

16. Long time readers of this blog know the answer to the ACLU question. I wonder if they’ll ever change their name.

17. What they said above on Layla / Princeton.

    I’ll add here that I’m much appreciative of Jim’s comment (#7) regarding his school board experience. I won’t pretend to know what motivated him to agree with his colleagues while being uneasy about it; it’s difficult enough sometimes for any of us to know this about ourselves. But a general observation: we do have a go-along-to-get-along culture in much of professional America that seems to increasingly favor the “team” players, while on substantive issues it can shun the critics and Devil’s advocates. Many of those professionals, particularly in academia and media, are trained and educated for niche occupations and have few, if any, opportunities to readily move about on the job market. Prestigious positions are coveted, with scores of people willing to displace those who have attained one, and professional work and lifestyle can be good—if you can keep them.

    Contrast this with hairdressers, waitresses, and auto mechanics, for example, any of whom in most communities can quit their jobs today and be working by tomorrow. It’s not an original observation, but the above situation explains, I think, much of the herd mentality in professional America—on an array of unrelated professional, political, and other social issues. (What’s that? Oh, it’s because we are the smart ones, and smart, informed people always agree? I see.) Most people simply find it hard to stand up against the majority of their peers, and our professional training, hiring, and promotion systems can skew toward those who don’t court disagreement. I don’t know how to fix this at the system level, but one step surely is a greater willingness for people to voice disagreement when justified and to admit error when warranted. Courage and humility can take us far. So, again, much appreciative of that comment.

18. A dip in the road is a danger as you may come over a crest, see a seemingly clear road ahead and not realise that there’s a car or other hazard hidden in a dip.

    In the UK those signs are common, particularly in rural hilly areas.

19. If Coyne is disappointed that ‘there are more comments on “Layla” than on the Princeton President’s dissimulation about diversity and excellence’ he’s really going to be let down when the “turtle vagina” replies start streaming in!

20. Moribund??? No Way!!! This site is an island of sanity in an otherwise crazy world. Reading it is a welcome part of my day, and I love it, whether I comment or not.

21. My wife, a retired school psychologist, suggests that the issue of the student’s statement via his shirt could have been pre-addressed with a blanket dress-code rule against words on clothing. She also suggests that grade-school students are meant to learn, not to promulgate opinions.

    Also, students with strong opinions could instead write essays to get their ideas across, which could sharpen their critical thinking abilities.

    As an occasional amateur graphic artist, I’m aware that a rule against words on clothing could be easily subverted by having clothing that sports symbols, flags, and pictures.

    So … uniforms?

    But I had always been glad to attend public schools that didn’t require bland uniforms. (At one graduation photo shoot I wore an orange sweater while all the other boys wore white shirts & ties under their dark suits.)

22. You keep saying that you think this site is moribund. I would like to give two observations, first, if you do not wish to take time to show what happened on this day in history, just omit it from the site, do not tell me I can do it myself. I can do it myself with everything if you wish. Second, is the content of the site, you are a biologist and I started reading this site to read science and biology, now it is more about social justice and the downfall of academia.
    what it used to be:
    A brand-new whale fossil February 5, 2009
    Cat treats and dead genes February 4, 2009
    Genes for surviving after reproduction February 3, 2009
    Review of WEIT and Darwin books in The Scotsman February 2, 2009
    Is “The Hobbit” a fraud? February 1, 2009
    More on the evolution of flight January 30, 2009
    Review of WEIT in Wall Street Journal January 29, 2009
    Does science promote values? January 28, 2009
    A really cool evolutionary timeline January 28, 2009
    More evidence of selection in action January 26, 2009
    New reviews of WEIT January 25, 2009
    Still more discussion of science and religion January 24, 2009
    Book Signing at The University of Chicago January 23, 2009
    A discussion of science and religion January 23, 2009
    Letter to Charles Darwin January 22, 2009

    What it is now:
    The myth of the two-state solution February 15, 2024
    Readers’ wildlife photos February 15, 2024
    Thursday: Hili dialogue February 15, 2024
    Yet another version of “Layla” February 14, 2024
    Princeton’s President makes bogus arguments that diversity and academic excellence are compatible February 14, 2024
    Glenn Loury (and, to some extent, John McWhorter) backpedal about the death of George Floyd February 14, 2024
    Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ trust February 14, 2024
    Readers’ wildlife photos February 14, 2024
    Wednesday: Hili dialogue February 14, 2024
    Bari Weiss interviews Lucy Aharish, the first Arab Muslim presenter on mainstream Israeli t.v. February 13, 2024
    Critic of “Woke Kindergarten” suspended February 13, 2024
    FIRE gives awards for the Ten Worst Censors of 2024; Harvard gets sixth Lifetime Censorship Award February 13, 2024
    Readers’ wildlife photos February 13, 2024
    Tuesday: Hili dialogue February 13, 2024
    “Punishment” for protestors who break University of Chicago regulations: a light tap on the wrist at best February 12, 2024
    Brown University Hillel received antisemitic emails, including some threatening violence February 12, 2024

    I’m still sticking with you and hoping for more science to read
    please only do your best.

23. Jerry, I wonder if regards the Princeton post the fact that it followed the Loury/McWhorter one did it a disservice.

    I, for one, found the free time in my day pretty much taken up by the George Floyd one. Listening to the Loury/McWhorter shows and reading Balko’s stuff. Absolutely fascinating. But I read your post first thing in the morning and Balko’s last thing at night.

    Whilst the Princeton one was also very interesting and a top notch read, I probably didn’t have quite the bandwidth to engage with it fully and you didn’t leave a lot left to be said anyway. Very comprehensive. It is maddening that these presidents either can’t or won’t see what is obvious and try to take us for fools.

    But, needless to say, both posts are a big reason I visit your site several times per day.

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