parasite-stress hypothesis

When I was an instructor at the Princeton Writing Program, I taught a course called “Living With Parasites,” which required reading a great deal of STEM research on everything from toxoplasmosis to the “parasite-stress hypothesis,” the insane but also hilarious idea that societies derive their political alignments based on their geographical proximity to infectious parasites.

Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector David Hollingshead 2026