PinnedThe Boat AccidentI have often said to my students: Nature is not out to get you.Mar 31, 201911Mar 31, 201911
Announcing Natural SelectionsPlease join my newest endeavor, Natural Selections. Subscribe for free, and receive short essays right to your inbox every Tuesday. Paying…Aug 3, 20211Aug 3, 20211
A Covenant between Faculty and UndergraduatesIn the 2015–2016 academic year, Bret Weinstein and I co-taught a year-long, full-time, upper-division science program at The Evergreen…Aug 6, 20202Aug 6, 20202
14 True ThingsObservations about protest, race, police and democracy in America, in sometimes uncomfortable juxtaposition with one anotherJun 3, 202014Jun 3, 202014
Memories of a MuggingSunday in Quito. Nine thousand feet up on the equator, the sky is clear, the parks filled with fruit vendors and picnicking families. Much…Nov 11, 2018Nov 11, 2018
Grievance Studies goes after the Scientific MethodThe Grievance Studies Project, a yearlong exercise in revealing the corrupt and corruptible nature of many of academia’s newest…Nov 2, 201819Nov 2, 201819
Some Things That Evergreen Could Not Take AwayOne year ago, I found myself suddenly having to vacate my office of 15 years. Bret Weinstein had to do the same thing. The college gave us…Sep 16, 20181Sep 16, 20181
A letter to the great Dick AlexanderThis is a letter that I wrote to Dick, one of my mentors in graduate school, in 2014. Characteristically, he wrote me back at length, in…Aug 21, 2018Aug 21, 2018
Evidence of my RacismI am coming clean. Here is the email that got me branded a racist. I wrote it to the faculty, staff, and administration of the college I…Mar 18, 201810Mar 18, 201810
Cooties as RhetoricRemember cooties? If you were declared to have the condition, associating with you became risky. Anyone known or rumored to hang around you…Mar 16, 20181Mar 16, 20181
