I’ve seen the same thing: perfectly competent, sociable students who claim to be “neurodivergent” or “autistic.” It’s the weaponization of “disability” to gain advantage. It’s a grift, plain and simple. We should stop falling for it.

At elite universities, 1/5 of students are registered as "disabled." (Fits my experience: accommodating students who claim extra time or special rooms for exams is a routine part of teaching. I meet in my office with charming, voluble, successful students who slip in, "I'm

Minutes of work at the average wage to purchase one can of Campbell's tomato soup: 1898: 46 minutes 2025: 2.5 minutes

Further thoughts on Dwarkesh's "Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)." I captured this while reading the essay. I do agree that continual learning will be a big unlock, but there are several things that I found myself reacting to vehemently. They sparked these thoughts: 1. Humans

It’s a strange coincidence that a medical diagnosis that will give you the advantage of untimed tests to tilt college admissions in your favor is correlated with wealth

The root of this is giving special academic privileges to people who claim a disability (as opposed to mere physical accomodations). Bluntly, this is insane and we're now reckoning with the obvious outcomes of that insanity. Why should you get more time to take a test because

Again, if you have a condition like ADHD, anxiety, or depression, and it makes it harder for you to complete tests on time, that is something the test should *measure*, not something it should avoid measuring.

25 simple rules for living an excellent life in a shallow, isolated, and distracted world: 1. The best way to stay sane is to find the people and activities you love and give them your all. 2. Challenge yourself and do hard things. It makes you feel alive, and what we are all

“The United States is witnessing a ‘closing of the American heart’ where fewer young men and women are getting married and having children, but this decline is especially precipitous for those on the Left." https://t.co/STl6NzpTR6 @FDRLST

"Contrary to widespread belief, when you consider both paid and unpaid labor, fathers and mothers do similar amounts of work. In fact, on average, fathers do slightly more." [Link below.]

Very happy to hear that Northwestern has negotiated in agreement with the federal government that allows all federal funding to restart. I’m especially relieved on behalf of my many colleagues whose lives and work have been disrupted over the past seven months and I hope that

The implementation of free market and capitalism in Eastern Europe made them not only wealthier, but also significantly improved life expectancy. The only people in favor of socialism are those who have never experienced socialist misery by themselves. Don’t listen to them.

Happy Thanksgiving! We all have an incredible amount to be thankful for. One of the things we're thankful for is the capacity of human beings to think critically and discard false beliefs in favor of accurate ones. So, in that spirit... Nearly 80% of Black Americans and around

For most of history, having children was the path to security in old age. You invested in children when you were young, and then you had someone to take care of you when you were old. Those who invested the most in bearing and raising children saw the greatest benefit. We have

"Young women are losing faith in marriage. This is the takeaway from a dramatic new Pew poll showing that in the past 30 years, the share of 12th-grade girls who say they are most likely to “choose to get married” one day has dropped more than 20 % pts."

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“As leaders, we lost our mission a bit about what higher education was about. We’re educational organizations. We’re not political organizations, like the R.N.C. or D.N.C. We’re not even social advocacy organizations.” —Dartmouth College President Sian Beilock

The largest trial of LSD microdosing to date has failed to show greater benefit than an active placebo (caffeine) in patients with major depressive disorder. More: https://t.co/QE45HyJ3BC

Losing a child is one of the most agonizing experiences a person can go through – as is dying oneself as a child. The decline of infant mortality rates over the last century has to be one of the greatest humanitarian achievements of our species. [Link below.]

The overwhelming majority of the population—probably more than ever before—now believes in the myth of “repressed” traumatic memories that are blocked from consciousness and can be recovered in therapy. Among the most pervasive beliefs [about memory] is that traumatic