Hey guys, so a few things are coming together for me at once: traveling home to Connecticut for the holidays, gearing up for campus visits, and a grant for a research project coming to an end. I'm asking readers to pitch in whatever they can, if they feel like it. Anything would help a great deal.

In the past year, I've been attacked by men's rights activists for saying that traditional masculinity has to die and by those in the Tumblr social justice movement for arguing against the faux politics of social sorting; by libertarians for disputing the notion of meritocracy and by leftists for opposing hate speech laws; by Republicans for criticizing Israel and by Democrats for criticizing Obama. I figure if I've made that many people mad, I must have gotten some of it right.