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Our new book, Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America's Epistemic Crisis, assembles an all-star cast of contributors who argue that many core progressive beliefs are wrong, overstated, or more certain than the evidence allows. This 🧵 outlines *every* myth-busting claim made in the book and which of our contributors makes it.
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It’s the most brutal class at Harvard—and suddenly everyone wants in. No AI, no finance. It's a big dose of western civ and classics.
Great to see.
wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl… via @WSJ
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Just delightful videos of Bedouin Israeli voters riding camels to the polls, mostly to vote for Ra'am, an Islamist party with a Jewish #2 that could be the kingmaker in the election's outcome.
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On Monday, Bramble the Barred Owl returned to the Central Park Ramble after spending several weeks somewhere outside the park. Bramble became a star in September by hunting well before sunset and giving amazing views, and did so again yesterday. 🦉 🧡
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They opened it to usher in a new chapter. I see many Iraqis online inviting the Iraqi Jewish community to visit or come back to Iraq, they express regret and keep apologizing for the Farhoud.
Things are changing in the Middle East. One of the biggest remaining obstacles is Israel’s image, and that can be repaired, too. But that’s the Israeli government’s responsibility.
To tell the truth, I’ve observed a shift in public sentiment across many Arab countries following the war with Iran. More people seem open to making peace with Israel, but not without the establishment of a Palestinian state.
From what I’ve seen, Muslim voices who are indifferent to the Palestinian cause remain a small minority.
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I joined the APA as a postdoc, and resigned a few years ago. This article explains why: The Inmates Run the Asylum at the Psychological Association by @SwipeWright and @Hartz_PhD wsj.com/opinion/the-inmates-… via @WSJopinion
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Une famille juive nommée Karnofsky, qui a émigré de Lituanie aux États-Unis, a eu pitié d'un garçon de 7 ans et l'a accueilli chez elle.
Là, il séjourna et passa la nuit dans cette maison familiale juive, où, pour la première fois de sa vie, il fut traité avec gentillesse et tendresse.
Lorsqu'il se couchait, Mme Karnovski lui chantait des berceuses russes, qu'il chantait avec elle.
Plus tard, il apprit à chanter et à jouer diverses chansons russes et juives.
Au fil du temps, ce garçon est devenu le fils adoptif de cette famille.
M. Karnofsky lui a donné de l'argent pour acheter son premier instrument de musique, comme c'était la coutume dans les familles juives.
Plus tard, lorsqu'il devint musicien et compositeur professionnel, il utilisa ces mélodies juives dans des compositions telles que St. James's Hospital et Go Down Moses.
Le garçon a grandi et a écrit un livre sur cette famille juive qui l’a adopté en 1907. Et il parlait couramment le yiddish avec fierté.
En mémoire de cette famille et jusqu'à la fin de sa vie, il a porté l'étoile de David et a déclaré que dans cette famille il avait appris « à vivre une vraie vie et avec détermination ».
Le nom de ce petit garçon était Louis Armstrong. Ce petit garçon s'appelait Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Louis Armstrong parlait fièrement couramment le yiddish et « Satchmo » signifie en yiddish « grosses joues », un surnom que certains disent que Mme Karnofsky lui a donné !
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🇮🇪 The Irish state has published an advert discouraging grandparents from hugging their grandchildren, as part of a campaign designed to promote "consent".
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"Mamdani has discovered that socialism can succeed in New York through one simple trick: abandoning socialism."
And @jonathanchait has discovered that liberalism can succeed in NYC only by abandoning the irrelevant centrist-industrial-complex blob ;)
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
"When talking to D.S.A.-ers, I often had the sense that they sincerely believed in a class revolution that they were not in any immediate way working toward."
This one should make the rounds @benwallacewells
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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I, too, have been a frat skeptic since I was 17 or 18, but I don't see how banning frats would avoid running afoul of Title IX unless you banned sororities, too. But maybe someone expert in that area of law could weigh in?
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“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”— Adolf Hitler, speaking of one of his inspirations for genocide.
I don’t expect a Columbia professor to know this sort of thing anymore, but Abraham Lincoln was not responsible for the Armenian genocide.
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A G-File on protest addiction and the hunger for meaning. thedispatch.com/newsletter/g…
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He's a professor of government, anthropology, and international affairs at Columbia University, where tuition, fees, room, board and book costs a mere $99,460 a year.





































