Prof. Hooven is an evolutionary biologist and the author of the awesome new book, "T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us." She’s a teaching star at Harvard and it’s easy to see why.For three snippets of my conversation with Carole — on how male horniness is increasingly shamed; on testosterone’s effect on crying; and on the ways in which T needs to be contained and channeled toward noble ends — head over to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailyDishHosting/videos
Trying to follow the conversation in "Carole Hooven on Testosterone" using the captions is a nightmare for deaf people. I do hope you will provide transcripts for your podcasts at some point.
In Andrew's comments (of a couple of weeks back) in "Dissents of the Week: Liberalism under Threat", I was genuinely stunned by his brief response to a Dish reader who noted that, "You [Andrew] claim “truth” requires that it can be disproven. Yet you often write about your religious beliefs and how central they are to you, often lamenting their overall decline."
Andrew's outrageous, flippant retort: "When we’re discussing empirical reality, how anyone feels about it is irrelevant. The question is whether it is true or not. And of course, religion is an exception to this rule." I'm surprised no other reader has called him out on the extraordinary self-dispensation he grants himself with that last sentence, padding it with a convenient, utterly unearned "of course". Obviously, it is not a matter "of course" that religious belief has been granted an exception to rational thought--countless epistemological tomes have been written on that subject. An uncharacteristically lazy 'out' from Andrew Sullivan.
Trying to follow the conversation in "Carole Hooven on Testosterone" using the captions is a nightmare for deaf people. I do hope you will provide transcripts for your podcasts at some point.
In Andrew's comments (of a couple of weeks back) in "Dissents of the Week: Liberalism under Threat", I was genuinely stunned by his brief response to a Dish reader who noted that, "You [Andrew] claim “truth” requires that it can be disproven. Yet you often write about your religious beliefs and how central they are to you, often lamenting their overall decline."
Andrew's outrageous, flippant retort: "When we’re discussing empirical reality, how anyone feels about it is irrelevant. The question is whether it is true or not. And of course, religion is an exception to this rule." I'm surprised no other reader has called him out on the extraordinary self-dispensation he grants himself with that last sentence, padding it with a convenient, utterly unearned "of course". Obviously, it is not a matter "of course" that religious belief has been granted an exception to rational thought--countless epistemological tomes have been written on that subject. An uncharacteristically lazy 'out' from Andrew Sullivan.
Just found this. Great Talk! So glad there are at least a few rational teachers at Harvard.
I would love to hear a discussion of the history of the restriction of sexuality - e.g. by the churches.