"There are individuals and groups who use morality...to extract an advantage...position themselves as victims of injustice, so that opposing them seems wicked or insensitive..make such a show of moral superiority that we feel ashamed to disagree with them" a.co/d/fsjODtO

"Crime is an anomaly.... For every angry person who commits an assault, or greedy person who steals from others, there are hundreds of equally angry, equally greedy people who refrain from doing so.” conspicuouscognition.com/p/why-do-peopl…

"People seem to be happiest when they are making good progress in pursuing goals that are both meaningful and manageable—grand enough to provide their lives with a sense of purpose and satisfaction but humble enough so that they can actually be achieved." wiley.com/en-us/The+Pers…

"a large group existing in a state of ressentiment would be American academics...They feel themselves, simultaneously, greatly superior and vastly undervalued, above their countrymen yet isolated from them and insufficiently rewarded and revered by them." a.co/d/heQcsEC

"Happy, God-fearing, patriotic Americans don’t understand these rituals...This has to be orchestrated by some Marxist dark money...right? Or, as Rob Henderson argues, perhaps this is now how the 'educated elite' distinguish themselves from the rest of us?" city-journal.org/article/nietzs…

"Dog ownership is a particularly attractive mate characteristic to women seeking a long- term mate...owning a dog may signal the potential mate has the material resources to take care of the dog and the emotional resources to bond and commit to the animal" global.oup.com/academic/produ…

"specialists in a given field tend to frown on those who, for whatever reason, stray onto their turf...The narrower and more specialized the field...the prouder the authorities tend to be and the stronger their antipathy to outsiders." a.co/d/2Tg8rIs

"A false alliance requires you to give up something essential about yourself...A true alliance is formed out of mutual self-interest, each side supplying what the other cannot get alone. It does not require you to fuse your identity with that of a group" a.co/d/6tWzm9w

The evolutionary interconnection between the human vagina and penis size. Source is "Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution."

I’ll be speaking at Cornell University today (September 10) at 5:30pm. Free and open to the public. Details: freedomandfreesocieties.cornell.edu/events/rob-hen…

"the ‘IQ shredder’ remains a useful way of thinking about something that’s observably true: that the high-tech urban information worker lifestyle draws in intelligent people, and then suppresses their capacity and/or desire to form families." maryharrington.co.uk/p/the-iq-shred…

"women have higher expectations of support and intimacy in their close relationships than men do. Women integrate our friends into our lives as deeply as siblings, whereas men treat their friends more like cousins." psychologytoday.com/us/blog/platon…

"epicureans have an austere, minimalist view of pleasure. So while pleasure does include things people normally consider pleasures, especially pleasures perceived by the senses, the highest pleasure, according to Epicurus, is actually the absence of pain" johnathanbi.com/p/transcript-f…