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From the Washington Monthly we hear of a brand-new book published by the prestigious American Psychiatric Association (APA), a book dealing with (and all gung ho for) “gender-affirming” care....

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/02/19/new-tendentious-and-possibly-dangerous-apa-book-on-gender-affirming-care/

My audiobook publisher is running a special deal until March 15: my audio book Faith versus Fact: The Incompatibility Between Science and Religion, for a pittance: $4.25. It’s not available on ...

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/02/15/faith-versus-fact-audiobook-for-75-off-only-4-25/

We all remember Abigail Shrier from her controversial first book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, which pointed out the huge increase in the number of adolescen...

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/12/21/abigail-shrier-has-a-new-book-on-therapy-for-the-young/

I’m not going after the NYT here, as this observation may simply reflect a dearth of science books published in 2023. However, the paper’s list of 100 best books of the year (click below), di...

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/12/19/a-dearth-of-science-books-on-the-years-best-list/

I have finished the collected short stories of Saul Bellow, which I read as a way of deciding whether I wanted to tackle his longer novels. And I decided that his prose style, which has been much...

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/12/04/i-need-a-book-2/

UPDATE: See a positive review of this new book (as well as a related one by Yacha Mounk) at The Economist. This week, Jon Haidt’s short Substack piece (click on title screenshot below to read i...

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/10/19/jon-haidt-on-a-new-book-the-silence-of-university-leaders-self-censorship-and-americas-loss-of-confidence-in-higher-education/

One thing that seems clear, at least to me, is that Scotland is woker than England, for you see more stuff like this happening to the North of Blighty than from its south. But even if you disagre...

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/10/12/university-of-edinburgh-academics-demand-cancellation-of-book-on-sex-and-gender/

Robert Sapolsky, a biological polymath who’s written several best-selling books, pointed out in earlier ones (like Behave) that he was a hard determinist, a view he reinforced on a Sci. Am. pod...

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/09/25/robert-sapolsky-has-a-new-book-on-determinism/