Paleo Retiree writes:

• A nice visit with the quirky French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who has just turned 90.
• Gregory Cochran wants to see a psychology and a sociology that are more rooted in nature than in nurture.
• Given the way populations are exploding in Africa, will Europe be able to avoid building walls around itself?
• Is YouTube the real home of the current dissident right?
• Cathy Young argues that there is no rape culture.
• An excellent appreciation of the great Shelby Steele.
• A very different look at trans issues. More.
• The VW Beetle, R.I.P.
• Why don’t Asians complain about “white privilege“?
• Heather Mac Donald takes a disturbing look at UCLA’s “diversity bureaucracy.”
• A classical revival in architecture is in full flower. More. Not to feel too sorry for myself but … This is a story I was pitching to editors back in the late ’90s. I always did have a terrible sense of journalistic timing.
• A collection of amazing visualizations of Byzantine cities and buildings.
• David Brussat, Roger Scruton and Nikos Salingaros, together in one blog posting!
• An appreciative look at Robert A.M. Stern’s new Collegiate Gothic residential colleges at Yale.
• Sailer’s Law of Female Journalists can be a big help in making sense of the media world.
• Meet the very privileged white woman behind the concept of “white privilege.”
• Dave Rubin’s YouTube talk show is reliably thoughtful and provocative. I’ve watched a lot of episodes and think the show is one of the best things happening in American popular culture. Here’s a nice visit with Rubin.
• Enough already with “open-concept interior design.”
• Here’s a statue no one’s tearing down. I wonder why.
• British philosopher John Gray on the rise of “Post-truth liberalism.”
• Did the Village Voice help ruin American journalism?