The latest paired The Harvard Crimson op-eds by members of Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard . First, by Kit Parker, 'If it Rights the Ship, Harvard Can Inform a New Renaissance.' thecrimson.com/column/council… Then, by Arthur Brooks, 'Make Harvard Happy Again.' thecrimson.com/column/council… Stimulating reads!

Incredible display of zealot's corner

May 1, 7pm ET. Watch online, or turn up in Hanover, NH. Hosted by The Dartmouth Political Union.

I could barely control my impulse to run around to the front of the table to see what was attached to the front of the sex boxes. I’m disappointed in you alex byrne You & I both know the guys like visuals.

For those who still haven't read it, Carole Hooven's book 'Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us' is a must-read for understanding sex differences and how and why they're important.

amazon.co.uk/Testosterone-S…

We’ll defend it. Looks like speech on a matter of public concern. And we’ll defend the rights of the students he’s criticized, who appear to be praying in an open forum. We defend peaceful protest, and criticism of it. If it’s protected speech, FIRE defends it.

Hey Will, we ought to talk. Will Stancil

Was great meeting both Bari and Carole in person.

Talked about testosterone TED Talks. Met incredible people, saw fascinating, life-changing talks, filled up on love & support, & stocked up on free snack bars. Thanks to Pamela Paresky🎗️(Habits of a Free Mind) for getting my foot in the door, to Chris Anderson, & everyone at TED who worked hard to make it a

Outstanding TED Talks by Carole Hooven. Thank you Bari Weiss and The Free Press for giving Carole a platform.

open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/…

Thank-you MIT Free Speech Alliance! You were gracious hosts & it was truly a pleasure to meet you and participate in this discussion. Thanks also to Alice Dreger, Ph.D. for the invitation to be her debate partner. You’re brilliant. And to @byrne_an and A/Prof Holly Lawford-Smith, I’m so delighted to have

Readers’ letters about Carole Hooven’s and my piece on “sex assigned at birth”. nytimes.com/2024/04/17/opi…

What a shameful way for NPR to deal with thoughtful criticism by a long time insider. A news organization that responds to criticism by firing the heretic should wonder whether the orthodoxy it worships has led it to dark places.
npr.org/2024/04/16/124…

What a pleasure to welcome Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to Princeton to give the 2024 Harold T. Shapiro Lecture in Ethics, Science, and Technology in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. His lecture was entitled 'The End of Free Speech is the End of Science.' A

Hey kids, here's the sex/gender debate thing I'm doing at MIT this Wednesday, with live feed info: mitfreespeech.org/spring_2024_de…

For 40 yrs, Ted's tagline was 'Ideas worth spreading.' Last year, Coleman Hughes's talk resulted in complaints that his ideas were not 'worth spreading.' Rather than disallowing ideas that some might find upsetting, TED Talks changed its tagline. (I think it's a good compromise.)

This review of Gareth Roberts’s “boisterous and uncompromising polemic” mentions Trouble with Gender—“accessible, scholarly and by far the best to date on the subject” (@politybooks).
thetimes.co.uk/article/gay-sh…

Judith Butler’s new book has now been reviewed by A/Prof Holly Lawford-Smith, Nina Power, Kathleen Stock, and me. (All philosophers.) Unless I missed it, none of these reviews has featured on Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg’s website. Can we look forward to some links?

Requirement for standardized testing will return ⁦Harvard University⁩. This rational decision comes as a surprise. Hopefully beginning of a trend! thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…