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Books, apps, and tools
other / recommends
“I talk a lot about class, again, and there’s a great book called Poison Ivy by Evan Mandery, which I recommend to everybody, it’s outrageous, it sounds like me on a rant at Stanford, which was, and I think the stat is elite higher education has more kids from the top 1% than they have from the bottom 50 or 60% depending on the school.”
book / uses
“Francis Fukuyama’s, the book that I’m reading right now, Origins of the Political Order, actually does this wonderful job of pointing out how we’re not special in a variety of ways.”
book / built
“I wrote a book called Freedom from Speech in 2014. It really was in 2017 when you started seeing this be directed at professors.”
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3 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“I even mentioned in the book there was a time when a gay activist friend, who I think decided to lean to my left, but nonetheless had that pragmatic experience of actually being an activist, said something like, “Well, just because someone’s conservative doesn’t mean they’re wrong,” and I remember feeling scandalized at some level of just being like, “Well, no, it’s not the whole thing.”
02 / evaluation
“America is exceptional in a number of ways, but some of our dynamics are incredibly typical. It’s one of the reasons why when people start reading Thomas Sowell for example, they start getting hooked, because one of the things he does is he does comparative analysis of country’s problems and points out that some of these things that we think are just unique to the United States exist in 75% of the rest of the countries in the world.”
03 / evaluation
“I think sometimes the right gets very excited of the free exercise clause and the Left gets very excited about establishment.”