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- .@IonaItalia talks to lawyer and historian @AdamMWakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.
- "A landmark study drawing on ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 West Eurasians found that directional genetic selection is not only widespread but accelerating." Stephen Jay Gould famously argued there had been no biological change in humans for 40,000 years. David Reich's latest
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David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution. @JonEntine and Patrick Whittle for @Quillette - Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.
- British author @JoshJohnIreland's new book about the murder of Leon Trotsky tells the gripping story of a rivalry between two very different men.
- "What we once called cancel culture—for its importance has surely receded since its manic peak in 2020—was carried along by too many currents of politics, commerce, and identity to be traced back to one inciting event."
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.@havamendelle on dealing with her sexuality and gender and me on dealing with.... Freelee the Banana Girl
00:00 - The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed, writes @KevinMahnken.
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In @Quillette I argue that a firm defence of pluralism must be accompanied by vigorous contestation of bad ideas in the public arena. The Starmer government’s cowardly decision to ban Piker and Uygur permits neither.
