Is There Too Much Ideological Diversity on Campuses?

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i think there is a kind of climate of, not fear, but just people feeling like, i don't want to say something that wll get a lot of woke people getting mad at me. But setting that aside, setting the exaggerated, like, paranoia that has been created around this issue, there is actually a problem that they are - even if they don't correctly describe the scope of it. I agree with you about the exaggeration of the problem and about there being a problem, like, it's not. It seems to have like, just the opposite of its intended effect. If the intended effect is to promote whatever heterodox beliefs are, it seems to be just pushing people in

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.