"But the line in which he “aligns himself” with Murray is on whether there is a genetic component to poverty (which surely there must be), ..." What? Genetic c

"But the line in which he “aligns himself” with Murray is on whether there is a genetic component to poverty (which surely there must be), ..." What? Genetic component of poverty?! "Another example. “Free speech” has become a left-right battleground issue, and the instances we read about are always of right-wing speech being limited by left-wing activists. So, inevitably, left-wing people think it’s a partisan attack on them, or a smokescreen for people who just want to say unpleasant things (which, let’s be clear, it often is). But Alexander takes a different tack. In one post, for example, he calls attention to a woman fired for “having a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker on her car” by her George W Bush-supporting boss. The point is, or at least the effect on me was, to drag the issue away from partisan sniping. It wasn’t firing shots in the culture war, it was talking to liberals and left-wingers, trying to persuade." Alexander's post is from 2013, which was before much of the current free speech hoopla. Somehow, I'm not finding this persuasive. Ultimately, in fact, I think this article is exactly what it seems to be complaining about, just in regard to an issue that is orthogonal to the big political discussions it uses as examples: Chivers is writing to a rationalist audience about how rationalists are wonderful.