Tiptoe… Through the Land-Mines
Making a bit of a splash at the moment is a new book by the Harvard geneticist David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past. (Any book that says...
View ArticleEppur, Si Muove!
The secularist writer and podcaster Sam Harris has got into a public scuffle with Ezra Klein, “editor-at-large” of the young-adult news website Vox, over Harris’s recent interview with Charles Murray,...
View ArticleThree Models Of Equality
Last Saturday’s post was about the scuffle between Sam Harris and Ezra Klein over the role of genetics in the varying distribution of cognitive, behavioral, and personality traits in distinct human...
View ArticleE Pluribus Multis
Continuing the discussion of David Reich’s book on human genetics, here’s Steve Sailer with an essay on the populations of India and China. The gist: compared to India, which has maintained genetically...
View ArticleTruth And Consequences
I’ve been busy catching up with work, and have no time for writing just yet. But I do have something good for you to read: a substantial essay by Toby Young on heredity and heresy, and the scientific...
View ArticleContainer Vs. Content
The brilliant but relentlessly optimistic Steven Pinker offered today a link to a brief article about a new cross-cultural study of human morals. The article, which you can read here, lists seven moral...
View ArticleBy George, I Think He’s Got It
You may recall a fellow by the name of Chris Langan (I wrote about him here, back in 2009). He has one of the highest IQs ever measured, but after a hard early life has lived quietly, without...
View ArticlePot, Kettle
For as long as I can remember we’ve been lectured about the peaceful streets of England, and how that “scepter’d isle” should be a model for us of the blessings of a government that disarms its people....
View ArticleEt Tu, Al?
From the Guardian: Einstein’s travel diaries reveal ‘shocking’ xenophobia I guess cultural relativity was just too much even for him. (Some things are true despite being obvious.) I’m reminded of the...
View ArticleWhat If…
Over at West Hunter, Greg Cochran imagines a counterfactual world in which everything we on the Dissident Right know to be true is false, and everything we are told to believe by our cultural overlords...
View ArticleThe Empirical Strikes Back
One thing that you may have noticed is that where science conflicts with hegemonic ideology, science takes a beating. (You shouldn’t have much difficulty thinking of both historical and contemporary...
View ArticleIs America A ‘Proposition Nation’?
Yesterday our friend Bill Vallicella, the Maverick Philosopher, commented on a 2018 column by Mackubin Thomas Owens about kinds of nationalism. Mr. Owens says that American nationalism is good and...
View ArticleThe “Social Construct”
Attracting considerable attention is Superior: The Return of Race Science, a new book about race by Angela Saini. It makes the usual case: that beyond mere superficialities, race is a meaningless...
View ArticleRace: Untangling ‘Ought’ From ‘Is’
In Monday’s post about Angela Saini’s race-denialist polemic, I should have added a few words about the deep moral and philosophical errors that lead so many people to fear, and to seek to suppress,...
View Article“Swedish”
Denmark has now instituted border checks with Sweden in response to Sweden’s inability to control its tide of violent crime. According to The Guardian: Denmark has temporarily reinstated checks at its...
View ArticleHard-Hitting Journalism From The Beeb
Commenting on our previous item about immigrant gangs in Sweden, and the wave of bombings and shootings they have brought to that previously peaceful nation, reader “Whitewall” offered up this link,...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth
I’ve just read a fine paper by Nathan Cofnas, a doctoral student in philosophy at Oxford, on the censorship. suppression, and misrepresentation of scientific and philosophical inquiry into the...
View ArticleWell, You Can Just Ask Directions, Right?
In a recent poll, men were almost twice as likely as women to be able to locate Iran on an unlableled map. The overall success rate was a dismal 28%. By sex: 38% of men got it right, and 20% of women.
View ArticleCharles Murray’s Latest
Charles Murray has a new book out: Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class. From the blurb at Amazon: The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are...
View ArticleLa Différence
I’ve just read a pithy and sensible article at Quilette on the subject of psychological and behavioral sex differences. The essay was written by David Geary, a professor of psychology at the University...
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