Sorry, Unfortunate, my admiration for Haidt’s comment was largely based on his attack on Wax’s comment that ““Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.” She said this as a follow-up to how wonderful Anglo-Protestant values are, and no-one would argue that Russians share Anglo-Protestant values. Not all of Russia’s rulers have been white (Lenin had very obvious Asiatic features) and some, like Boris Yeltsin have been born in Asia. So it was quite something to me that the third country in the world for taking foreigners in was Russia. The controversy about the impact of the pill doesn’t interest me so much. If Janice wrote something on the subject I would certainly read it but I wouldn’t go out of my way to study it.

There is a British guy, Konstantin Kisin, who seems to be all over the web these days. He is Jewish, Russian or Ukrainian as the mood strikes him. He claims he has a dark complexion, so maybe he qualifies as black-adjacent. He is always pounding on the drum that his family moved from the Soviet Union to the UK and this was the natural only path of flow for people. Edward Snowden moved from the US to Russia and he is now a Russian citizen but he doesn’t prate endlessly that this is the only direction in which immigrants between the two countries might flow. So-called intellectual analysts like Kisin should really grow up.

I don’t know if you are right about Haidt. I can’t get into his brain and I rather doubt that you can either. It might make a great film though, “Being Jon Haidt”, like a sequel to “Being John Malkovich.” Malkovich is of Croatian descent on his father’s side by the way, although I don’t think he speaks Serbo-Croatian. If you want to push Haidt’s motivations further, more power to you, but I have other fish to fry.