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Would you agree with me in saying that the comments are at least disappointing? In terms of the article itself, I agreed with this part, "High schools and colleges that lack viewpo…

I don't doubt at all Haidt is qualified. My complaint was more to your second point, that "If the complaint is that his work is spreading to, or being adopted by the anti-SJW crowd…

I'm pretty disappointed in the article and the comments, and how like Reddit this website is turning out to be. I'm not going to make any judgements (though I really really am), bu…

I never claimed that you needed only privilege to gain skill, or that you didn't need sweat to gain skill. What I said was that even those who work hard were able to do so (able to…

You're ignoring the systematic factors that lead to one person being able to attain car-repairing skills over the other. "Al, in fact, was a former Lamborghini tech. What’s that tr…

It's not even that any person is better than another... Classes at elite public schools like Berkeley, UCLA, UMich, etc. are more demanding than at any but a few private colleges.

I'm surprised at Winston and Franklin - I'm pretty confident that the bump/spike was due to Churchill and Roosevelt. Barack unfortunately was not in the list, so we can't compare t…

There really are many other apps that are useful besides just Google Maps though. It's great to have a phone that can play music for the gym, have an app like venmo for small trans…

Why do you think that you would have to explain to your parents every single link you visit? Surely parents will use their discretion, just as they do with every other decision the…

I very much agree. It's totally okay to be unprofessional by being yourself: if you truly feel strongly about a subject, then by all means showcase that opinion. However, what made…

Maps are just visualizations that focus on one attribute almost everything has: a spatial location. They don't need to show rivers or other physical features. A map of voting patte…

Who was the first Catholic president? Sure JFK did several other important things, and there were other events that transpired that made him famous. Still, I think it's pretty impo…

Agreed. If the headline was "NSA refuses to comment on the Restore the Fourth protests", people would just comment that the NSA wasn't recognizing the protests, and that protesting…