Getting to know them …

… Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web - The New York Times. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

After his talk, in which [Harris] disparaged the Taliban, a biologist who would go on to serve on President Barack Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues approached him. “I remember she said: ‘That’s just your opinion. How can you say that forcing women to wear burqas is wrong?’ But to me it’s just obvious that forcing women to live their lives inside bags is wrong. I gave her another example: What if we found a culture that was ritually blinding every third child? And she actually said, ‘It would depend on why they were doing it.’” His jaw, he said, “actually fell open.”

She is obviously one of those persons that Chesterton described: So open-minded her brains have fallen out.