I woke up this morning to a long sympathy piece on aborting people with Down syndrome in The Atlantic. It’s a fantastic piece of writing and also a bit of a moral failure. It tries to tell the story by humanizing everyone in it, respectfully allowing each side to have its say and tug on…
Since the election, white people have been struggling with the question, “Why did more black people vote for Trump this time, according to exit polls?” This is equivalent to asking: why are there coons, Uncle Toms, race traitors, etc? When white people internalize racism, it tells them that they’re superior, so they struggle to understand…
I wasn’t expecting to like Simon Baron-Cohen’s new autism book, “The Pattern Seekers”, very much, and I didn’t, for reasons apparent from the cover. The topic itself is interesting, of course: what’s been the actual place of autistic people in society, across times and cultures? I like reading speculation about how we were the calendar…