New York Times bestseller! When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows hits the hardcover nonfiction list in its first week at #12.

"Locked away in the ivory tower remain many intelligent and intellectually curious men and women, working hard on important and interesting questions. They must be incentivized to fight back against what many no doubt privately recognize to be a stifling and pernicious culture of

Shake it up Bari! 🎊🎉Bari Weiss

The most important study on American attitudes toward political violence to date, conducted by the Skeptic Research Center. RT widely as the results are striking and revealing: skeptic.com/r/f82739c0?m=1…

.Richard Dawkins highlights an example of pressure to desex language from my chapter in The War on Science. Another egregious example included is a letter to a Lancet journal urging WHO not to overlook breastfeeding women in DRC. An editor asked us to add "chestfeeding parents"

Amazing. Most speeches from the last NatCon have a few dozen views. “The Great Feminization” is now approaching 100,000. I’m truly grateful to see this important message spreading. A few additional thoughts:

"36% of those with a graduate...degree agreed at least somewhat with... “If you are protesting something unjust, it is reasonable to damage property,” while 40% agreed that “Violence is often necessary to create social change.”"⁦ The Skeptic⁩ research.skeptic.com/support-for-po…

Every single word. Andrew Doyle nails it shut. In conversation with Chris Williamson

Today's the day to raise several glasses to Bari Weiss, Nellie Bowles, and everyone who helped make The Free Press the hottest property in American journalism.

Thanks to those who shared my Tablet piece from Sept. 24, arguing that we (especially scholars) should not shame people who hold sensible views about science, even if we strongly disagree with how they use it or their politics. Instead, we should engage with their views. I heard

If you think that phrase doesn't describe something real - you are in severe denial x.com/oelayat/status…

When everyone knows that everyone knows... Photos courtesy of Michelle and Justin, soon to be newlyweds (I'm the officiant!), Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center in West LA. A great convo on all things common knowledge.

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It's not just that Abigail Shrier is one of the most ferocious investigative reporters in the country. It's that she can write like this:

"For the first time, you understand that you would rip the face from any adult who would intentionally hurt them. You would do it gladly. Go ahead, you think. Try me."

Worth your time, if you're interested in how to fix higher ed: "Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact" by Harvard University's Danielle Allen. open.substack.com/pub/therenovat…

Why Trump’s Compact for Higher Education Has Bipartisan Potential aei.org/social-cultura… American Enterprise Institute

Antlers trump bulk! Listen for the bugling at the end.

The real, sinister reason academics keep cancelling each other - (as explained in When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…) standard.co.uk/comment/toby-y…