I agree with a lot of your points here but I think you (and Timpf) are underselling many of the motivations underlying the culture wars. This isn't just about superficial status posturing, popularity contests, and meaningless culture war idiocies that are stoked by our political leaders (although those elements are often present too). Th…

> But when it’s everyone else, my white lefty ex-friends, someone who putatively has no bronze age dog in the fight, do I really believe that they just hate Jewish people that much?

Outside of Muslim/Arab circles, I don't think that typical white lefties are truly anti-semitic in the way that Muslims often are. But I think that many of th…

In the Lemon-Musk interview that was posted yesterday, Don Lemon claimed that there’s no evidence that DEI actually negatively impacts professional standards.

In this post, I provide over 35 documented examples, drawn from a broad range of professional arenas, that disprove that false claim.