Paleo Retiree writes:

• By over-protecting our children, are we driving them crazy? Jonathan Haidt thinks so.
• My wife and I enjoyed this Brendan O’Neill conversation with Jonathan Haidt.
• The very smart Stuart Schneiderman responds to the American Psychological Association’s distaste for “traditional masculinity.”
• Milestone du jour: The Alt Right becomes tabloid fodder.
• Is the Obama administration to blame for all the financial-provider deplatformings that we’re witnessing these days?
• Who could have predicted this development?
• Although being a writer never made much financial sense, it makes even less sense now.
• Loyalty-oath alert: Do we have any right to expect writers to be moral?
• From Joel Kotkin: “Trends in American and to some extent European mass culture are beginning to look almost Stalinesque in their uniformity.”
• On the ridiculousness of M.F.A. programs.
• What is France’s gilets jaunes movement really about?
• DNA co-discoverer James Watson gets Watsoned for a second time.
• Sorry to report that I didn’t love ancient DNA specialist David Reich’s new book. Tons of fascinating and up-to-date information, sure, but Reich and/or his editor is ‘way more fascinated by the geeky detective work that goes into scientific discovery than I am; where reading about fresh science goes, I’m more of a “just tell me what you think you now know” kinda guy. And Reich’s determination to wrap up his very un-PC findings in cheery PBS-style platitudes is more than a little ridiculous, however understandable in a “Please keep my funding coming!” way. If you want to sample Reich’s mind and info without committing to a long book, there are lots of presentations and speeches by him on YouTube.