Paleo Retiree writes:

• Salon, of all places, thinks it’s time for the left to give up on identity politics.
• The Spectator: “The terrific thing about our day and age is that everyone feels much freer to be who they are. But in general, they freely behave according to stereotype.”
• Who owns the internet?
• Razib takes a look at who tends to support (and who tends to oppose) free speech.
• Meet Germany’s latest intellectual antihero.
• Does modern classicism have a point?
• Some interesting ideas about why bright girls often prefer not to go into STEM fields.
• Perhaps gender bias sometimes goes in the other direction.
• Some great street photography from Russia.
• An interesting article about Angelyne, L.A.’s famous “billboard diva.”
• Have smartphones destroyed a generation?
• Against clean eating.
• Meet the superfans.
• What to make of Antifa?
• John Cleese vs. the EU.
• X-rated film posters of the ’60s and ’70s.
• An excellent interview with the radical economist Michael Hudson.
• Even after decades of affirmative action, blacks and Hispanics are still underrepresented at prestigious colleges. Why?
• Why is UC Irvine only 15% white?
• Steve Sailer writes a moving tribute to his just-deceased friend, Jerry Pournelle.