This is an excellent letter in support of the academic freedom of Nathan Cofnas Nathan Cofnas, published today in The Times and The Sunday Times. It is signed by leading academics from across the world including Steven Pinker, Brian Leiter, Robert Plomin, Partha Dasgupta, and Peter Singer.

'Taken to its logical conclusion, affirmative action implies that we should select people at random – not just in institutions, but in our capacity as individuals as well.' aporiamagazine.com/p/what-if-we-t…

'...a healthy culture should teach that life is often full of misery, dashed hopes, and thwarted desires; it should teach that agony, anguish, and despair are ineradicable parts of the human experience, not aberrant or fleeting intrusions...'

aporiamagazine.com/p/the-therapy-…

'Anthropology has long viewed non-Whites through the eyes of Whites. But what about the reverse? How do Whites appear when they are the “other”?' aporiamagazine.com/p/the-white-ma…

John Mill's 'On Liberty' is widely praised but seldom read. How well do the arguments hold up? I argue 'not very.' People should look elsewhere for strong arguments in favor of free speech.

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The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week: aporiamagazine.com/p/do-genes-mat…

.Bo Winegard and I explain why we aren't convinced by the mutational load hypothesis: aporiamagazine.com/p/can-mutation…

'Humans sometimes perform acts of kindness for complete strangers knowing that they'll never be repaid. Why?' aporiamagazine.com/p/why-be-so-ni…

'CRT’s potential for causing anti-White violence can be found in Delgado’s earlier work ... which shows that he has been contemplating this kind of crime for decades'. aporiamagazine.com/p/dr-delgados-…

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week: aporiamagazine.com/p/can-someones…

.Wilfred Reilly joins me to discuss the black-white IQ gap. He defends the culturalist position, arguing that neither genes nor racism can explain the difference in average test scores between blacks and whites. aporiamagazine.com/p/the-racial-i…

Stephen Pinker: “Unless there’s reason 2suspect that Cofnas engaged in scholarly misconduct, a university should not investigate its scholars for the content of their opinions.”

I back ⁦Nathan Cofnas⁩.

Academic research is premised on free speech.

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.Substack Bestseller Drinks.

A big thank you to the Substack team for such a wonderful event. We even got to take a free book.

I went for Shoe Dog, Phil Knight’s Nike memoir.

If any watch nerds know what I’m wearing in the first pic, I’ll be impressed!

Thank you to everybody who came to the London Aporia Magazine meet up. Lovely to meet so many Noticers!

'Conservatives tell us that “welfare destroyed the black family”. And while there’s evidence that perverse incentives can increase divorce and single-motherhood, historical literature shows that problems in the black family are not new.' aporiamagazine.com/p/conservative…

In 2012, the incarceration rate for British nationals was 0.14%. Meanwhile, it was 1.9% for Albanians (14x higher) and 4% for Congolese (29x higher). aporiamagazine.com/p/immigrant-se…

From Aporia Magazine, on the dearth of support for gifted children.

This is amazing. I could see an article like this making the rounds in conservative lite and soccer mom Democrat circles 20 years ago, but without the jab at the American Dream. That's quite the thing to give up…

Groups with more low-skilled immigrants have higher incarceration rates in Britain: aporiamagazine.com/p/immigrant-se…

'Here, however, is the rub, because the interests of the gifted are routinely swept aside in western societies. This is most clearly visible when we look at the treatment of gifted children.'

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'The interests of the gifted are routinely swept aside in western societies. This is most clearly visible when we look at the treatment of gifted children'. aporiamagazine.com/p/how-about-a-…