My Chat with Bestselling Author Heather Mac Donald (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_355)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Topics covered include meritocracy, academia, identity politics, racism, the police, white supremacy, idea pathogens (e.g., feminism, postmodernism), wokeism, progressivism, the scientific method, the importance of evidence, truth, deontological versus consequentialism, the conservative vs. liberal divide, the thought police, cancel culture, the West's implosion, and the psychology of regret. _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 17, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1363: https://youtu.be/ldSk0Lfc6Ys _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hey guys this is Gad's second show of the new year. Last week I had a professor from
0:07.7	Dartmouth, a historian of happiness today. I've got the wonderful Heather
0:12.4	McDonald whom I've seen many many times on Tucker Carlson
0:15.8	I don't think I'll ever catch up to the number of appearances that you've had on the show.
0:19.1	I've only been there once.
0:20.6	How are you doing Heather?
0:21.6	I'm great but really we're all sort of, I don't know, proselytizers or at the mercy of TV shows,
0:31.0	you know, you have no control over whether you go on or not, and people always see you there,
0:34.5	but read my writing instead, you know, that I can control, I can't control TV appearances.
0:39.6	I'm going to come to your writing right now, so for those of you viewers who don't know Heather
0:45.0	she is the Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of
0:51.1	the Institute's City Journal. By training she is an attorney and she is a
0:56.2	New York time best-selling author. Let me mention her books. I think two of which
1:00.6	are anthologies. The burden of bad ideas how modern intellectuals
1:04.3	miss shape our society that is very relevant to my own book the parasitic mine are cops
1:09.4	racist I think that's another anthology the immigration solution co-authored with
1:15.4	Victor Davis Hanson and Steve Malenga and then more recently in the last few years
1:20.0	the war on cops how the new attack on law and order makes everyone less safe and finally in 2018 another
1:26.9	book that I address in my own work on diversity inclusion and equity the
1:32.1	diversity delusion how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture.
1:37.8	Did I cover everything, Heather?
1:39.8	That's more than enough.
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