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The Books Are Already Burning
The Books Are Already Burning
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The question is only: How long will decent people stand by quietly and watch it happen?
By Abigail Shrier
06.21.21 — Culture and Ideas
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Do you remember the names Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying?  I wrote one of my earliest New York Times columns about the bravery they displayed as tenured professors — words that do not typically appear in the same sentence  — at Evergreen State College. 

It was 2017 and the professors, both evolutionary biologists, opposed the school’s “Day of Absence,…

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Abigail Shrier
Abigail Shrier is a journalist and author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, named a “best book” by The Economist and The Times of London. She is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a recipient of the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Journalism and a graduate of Yale Law School.
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