By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Join the club: ‘I’m pinned between cancel culture and Trump’

I feel the same as Harvard’s Steven Pinker. … W Reader sent me the Times of London link with the following note: “I had to read this Pinker interview twice to understand it, but I am glad that I did.  It explains a lot about our crazy seeming world.” … And I loved this quote from the centrist Pinker, on whether right-wing or left-wing authoritarianism is the greater threat: “Trump has an army … whereas the Department of Romance Languages — there’s only so much damage they can do.”

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