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Best short summary of how Trump has turned the US into a dictatorship (not irreversibly, at least not yet). By the conservative writer Rob Tracinski The UnPopulist theunpopulist.net/p/dictator-on-…

My conversation with the always-stimulating Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine. | Steven Pinker: Can Harvard University be saved? reason.com/podcast/2025/0…

Unbelievable: Hesgeth bans Mathew Delmont's brilliant "Half American," about black heroism in the US Armed Forces during WWII, which we honored w the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize. | To Pete Hegseth: There are no snowflakes in Annapolis bostonglobe.com/2025/05/14/opi… via The Boston Globe

This doesn't surprise me (I have a chapter on baby names in The Stuff of Thought): America's red-blue divide shows up even in baby names. (What does surprise me is that 2 of the 10 most popular names for a boy in red states are Kohen and Cohen.) bostonglobe.com/2025/05/13/opi… via

The Threats to Golden Ages Come From Within open.substack.com/pub/humanprogr…

One of the scandals of academia: Why so many scholars will cancel a wide range of thinkers yet idolize the viciously antisemitic Nazi Martin Heidegger (now appropriated by the illiberal right, too). theconversation.com/heidegger-in-r… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Make America Stupid Again: Trump administration cancels grants studying misinformation and propaganda out of a paranoid fear that it will be used against them. nytimes.com/2025/05/15/bus…

These are the days of miracle and wonder: Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment. (Thank federally funded research, now endangered.) nytimes.com/2025/05/15/hea…

Israel Up Close: Maarten Boudry Maarten Boudry about his recent trip and the bigger picture. quillette.com/2025/05/14/isr…

Steven Pinker in Conversation with Alice Dreger on The Future of Free Inquiry, sponsored by Heterodox Academy heterodoxacademy.org/events/the-fut…

USA: How the Trump administration is taking action against critical figures - 10 vor 10 - Play SRF srf.ch/play/tv/10-vor…

The Future of Free Inquiry: Steven Pinker in Conversation with Alice Dreger heterodoxacademy.org/events/the-fut…

Ridley: CRISPR announcement is great moment in medical history open.substack.com/pub/rationalop…

Federal grants to Harvard are not support of the university -- they pay for specific research projects that benefit the country. Just one example: We know exercise is good for you. Why? He‘s working on it.   — news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Violent crime is falling rapidly across America. Why? Another lesson in not politicizing everything. Policing matters (stick). But removing funding from the carrots (behavioral interventions, job training) and diverting police from fighting violent crime to deporting immigrants

Harvard Derangement Syndrome | My new essay in the New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

A comment on the New York Times: In my experience their fact-checking and editing processes are meticulous. They strive for accuracy and logic, without obvious political bias (their demands for correction went both ways. Any remaining errors are my fault.) Not unlike the

Connect the World - Professor Steven Pinker (my appearance on CNN a few minutes ago). video.snapstream.net/Play/3DQeutFSc…

Says the Wall Street Journal: The government seems bent on destroying Harvard for the offense of fighting back. And for what purpose? wsj.com/opinion/donald… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

Trump's assault on foreign students at Harvard is truly depraved. It harms thousands of the smartest people in the country for no reason, & it's based on the error of thinking they're behind campus "riots" (a cable news host said this to me last night). In fact disruptive