Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

Philippines Duterte and Trump, Pinker frames it as religion

What do religious voters want? A strong champion of their tribe, not an advocate of moral principles. https://t.co/tGVY0bNUa7 — Steven Pinker (@sapinker) December 23, 2018

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Praising the Dead Impersonal

The glory in the spider’s craft becomes nothing different than the glory of a decaying carcass or the dismemberment of the ravaged young. Amazing that natural selection can engineer such intricately patterned instincts, and amazing that it can squeeze so … Continue reading

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Globalization and the Pencil

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The 5 Years That Changed Dating

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/tinder-changed-dating/578698/

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Q: A Single Term That Includes All Sexual Minorities – The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/dont-call-me-lgbtq/576388/

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Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible

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Boycotts and De-Platforming

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Not helping me believe in what I read…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stars-of-intellectual-dark-web-scramble-to-save-their-cash-cows

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The WW1 Xmas Truce

https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/first-world-war/57-uncategorised/158-henry-williamson-and-the-christmas-truce https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-the-christmas-truce

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The Red Children’s Crusade

https://quillette.com/2018/12/18/the-children-of-the-revolution/

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