Welcome to What We’re Reading, an exclusive fortnightly recap for our supporters at the Affiliate Publisher level and above. This is where we highlight articles, books, and blogs we’ve been reading, have read, or find too interesting not to share. The content shared here need not necessarily reflect ideas we agree with or endorse. It might even be concepts or ideas we disagree with strongly. Rather, this is just an assorted collection of works we have consumed or are in the process of consuming. Hence the title: What We’re Reading. We’ll also highlight podcasts and videos occasionally. — Malhar Mali, Helen Pluckrose, Oliver Traldi
Malhar’s picks
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter, “It feels good to be a victim”
James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian, “Is Intersectionality a Religion?”
Wesley Yang, “The Bari Weiss Pile-On” — Tablet Magazine
Oliver’s picks
S.A. Dance, “Incomprehension 501: Intro to Graduate School” — Quillette
Theodore Kupfer, “The Big Tech Backlash” — National Review
“The Center Left is on Life Support” — National Review
Walter Olson, “Yale and the Puritanism of ‘Social Justice’” — Wall Street Journal
Helen’s picks
David Brooks, “Understanding Student Mobbists” — New York Times
Saloni Dattani, “Steven Pinker’s Counter-Counter-Enlightenment” — Quillette
Michael Gerson, “The Last Temptation” — Atlantic
What have you been reading, viewing, or listening to in the last two weeks that we should draw our attention to? What are some ideas you’d like discussed in Areo? Let us know through this Patreon forum. Areo editors are active in the comments section.