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"A bit too memoir-y for me. I wanted more gory details about the paleontology, but hearing the details was fun in its own right. Toward the end he lost me with an overly short dismissal of Gould's argument about the Burgess Shale and muh reverse-racism in the second to last paragraph (Mugabe bad but this after an entire story with black scientists conspicuously absent). Mostly good but not quite what I was after." — Dec 25, 2019 08:34PM
"A bit too memoir-y for me. I wanted more gory details about the paleontology, but hearing the details was fun in its own right. Toward the end he lost me with an overly short dismissal of Gould's argument about the Burgess Shale and muh reverse-racism in the second to last paragraph (Mugabe bad but this after an entire story with black scientists conspicuously absent). Mostly good but not quite what I was after." — Dec 25, 2019 08:34PM
Although interpreted as a backlash against progressive movements, anti–gender ideology is driven by a stronger wish, namely, the restoration of a patriarchal dream-order where a father is a father; a sexed identity never changes; women,
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“Coming back from the G20 summit, Trump was editing an upcoming speech with Porter. Scribbling his thoughts in neat, clean penmanship, the president wrote, “TRADE IS BAD.” Though he never said it in a speech, he had finally found the summarizing phrase and truest expression of his protectionism, isolationism and fervent American nationalism.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“The weaponization of this fearsome phantasm of “gender” is authoritarian at its core. Rolling back progressive legislation is surely fueled by backlash, but backlash describes only the reactive moment in this scene. The project of restoring the world to a time before “gender” promises a return to a patriarchal dream-order that may never have existed but that occupies the place of “history” or “nature”—an order that only a strong state can restore.”
― Who's Afraid of Gender?
― Who's Afraid of Gender?
“The Middle Kingdom was the golden age of literature, when many of the great classics were composed. From the heroic Tale of Sinuhe to the rollicking yarn of The Shipwrecked Sailor, from the overtly propagandist Prophecies of Neferti to the subtle rhetoric of The Eloquent Peasant, and from the metaphysical Dispute Between a Man and His Soul to the burlesque Satire of the Trades, the literary output of the Middle Kingdom reveals ancient Egyptian society at its most complex and sophisticated”
― The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
― The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
“Trump gave some private advice to a friend who had acknowledged some bad behavior toward women. Real power is fear. It’s all about strength. Never show weakness. You’ve always got to be strong. Don’t be bullied. There is no choice. “You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women,” he said. “If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re dead. That was a big mistake you made. You didn’t come out guns blazing and just challenge them. You showed weakness. You’ve got to be strong. You’ve got to be aggressive. You’ve got to push back hard. You’ve got to deny anything that’s said about you. Never admit.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“The archival record backs up the testimony of the survivors. Neither crop failure nor bad weather caused the famine in Ukraine. Although the chaos of collectivization helped create the conditions that led to famine, the high numbers of deaths in Ukraine between 1932 and 1934, and especially the spike in the spring of 1933, were not caused directly by collectivization either. Starvation was the result, rather, of the forcible removal of food from people’s homes; the roadblocks that prevented peasants from seeking work or food; the harsh rules of the blacklists imposed on farms and villages; the restrictions on barter and trade; and the vicious propaganda campaign designed to persuade Ukrainians to watch, unmoved, as their neighbours died of hunger.”
― Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
― Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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