Diversity

[snyders]

1. "Taleb's thesis is that skin in the game—i.e., having a measurable risk when taking a major decision—is necessary for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management, as well as being necessary to understand the world...  Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI) is a term that refers to the semi-intelligent well-pedigreed "who are telling us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for".

2.The "Rivers of Blood" speech was made by British Member of Parliament (MP) Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968, to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His speech strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom and the proposed race relations bill. (предсказание не сбылось, но Лондон выглядит как постколониальный винегрет)

3. "The case for colonialism",  Bruce Gilley

"For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name... The notion that colonialism is always and everywhere a bad thing needs to be rethought in light of the grave human toll of a century of anti-colonial regimes and policies." (колониализм это плохо,  но то, как сейчас, не сильно лучше. Автор популист, но за то чтобы он мог это высказывать ..)

4. Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students.   (не проверял, можно этому доверять или нет, но все цитируют)

5. A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952)  (неплохое интервью)

"Philosophy is summed up in these two questions: what is matter? Never mind. What is mind? No matter" (according Russel's grandparents).