Wesley Yang Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Today's subscriber-only Year Zero podcast is the second installment of the Syllabus series, wherein I read classic works under the guidance of Boston College Professor of Government Shep Melnick. Today's episode is on "Adversarial Legalism" https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/shep-melnick-on-adversarial-legalism?s=w https://t.co/TnNK9m9K6l

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Andrew Yang's book the War on Normal People had a striking passage in which he speculated about nationwide trucker protests

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Biden has been fully committed to this issue for many years. In Sept. 2017, he wrote the introduction to Sarah McBride's TOMORROW WILL BE DIFFERENT: LOVE, LOSS, AND THE FIGHT FOR TRANS EQUALITY" "We are at an inflection point in the fight for transgender equality, what I have… https://t.co/IXmF669VdQ https://t.co/xpMyYRYtZS

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Cotton candy, coloring books, and temporary tattoos at the safe space for gender expansive college students menaced by the presence on camps of a man opposing the chemical castration of children -- today's genocides are quite different than prior ones https://t.co/2NAqamj4X1

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@samhaselby @BrockHearthsto1 The big thing that Bill Ayers did was help to change teacher training and education. Many of his ideas are being rolled out at scale to K-12 students. The revolt against white supremacy and sexual normativity has been institutionalized. Don't count them out.

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@RedPandaDiet This refers to a moment prior to gay marriage become a mainstream liberal cause, when it had to define itself in opposition to queer theory — we are only seeking a “place at the table”, according to Bruce Bawer, in a polemic against more far reaching visions…

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It's also causing us to put male sex offenders in women's prisons, school boards to defer to the "human rights" of obvious paraphiliacs creeps, and an inescapable miasma of dishonesty to creep into public life https://t.co/koxMd01Jmi

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Dedication of new disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz's book on online harassment, HOW TO BE A WOMAN ONLINE. She then tells the anecdote at greater length on page 3. https://t.co/85NbQOHOKw

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Today's Year Zero post for paid subscribers is an interview with Boston College professor Shep Melnick, author of the Transformation of Title IX, perhaps the most important single work for understanding the development of Successor Ideology https://t.co/tsq7uADgQS https://t.co/FoE9jXuPMT

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@OliverJia1014 @Noahpinion Ian Buruma wrote a book called Occidentalism