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NYT: "Why Are Men Randomly Punching Women?"
• April 16, 2024
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New York City doesn't have a relatively high crime rate since the Giuliani-Bloomberg-Bratton era, but it needs a really low crime rate because its density and mixture of classes and races (the subway system makes it easy for anybody from public housing projects to hang out in even the richest neighborhoods) makes NYC peculiarly psychologically... Read More
Austin, TX
• April 15, 2024
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My book tour allowed me to finally spend a few days in Austin, Texas for the first time in my life. It was a lot of fun. I was funny at my dinner for three dozen on Thursday. On Friday I was a little dull at the more public evening for ~150, but, wow, Austin... Read More
Retconning the Founding
• April 14, 2024
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I've been joking for years about how Emma Lazarus has been transmogrified over the years into our one Uncancelable Founding Father: From the New York Times opinion page: Granted, I'm not a Stanford professor of history, like Ana Raquel Minian, but even I know that the United States was not founded on the 1883 poem... Read More
The OJ Trial
• April 13, 2024
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In 2017, I wrote in a review of the fine miniseries "The People vs. O.J. Simpson:" I was going to say the O.J. Trial was a formative event for me, but it was more of a confirmatory one. For example, in the miniseries, which is mostly accurate although somewhat pumped up, Johnnie Cochran starts out... Read More
OJ Is Dead
• April 12, 2024
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On November 16, 1968, my dad and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry next to the L.A. Coliseum. When we came out, the football game between #1 USC and #13 Oregon State to determine who would go to the Rose Bowl was just starting, and the scalpers were getting desperate. So my... Read More
Washington Post: Average American Is 5 Times Better Informed About This Decade's Crime Trend Than Post Readers
• April 11, 2024
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The survey question "is crime up"? and lead to lots of wrong answers, in part because even well informed people aware of trends don't have dates firmly lodged in their heads. The Washington Post has run a poll and congratulates itself on making its readers much more aware of the drop in violent crime from... Read More
McKinsey's Diversity Delusion
• April 10, 2024
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From my new column in Taki's Magazine: The Return of Skepticism Steve Sailer April 10, 2024 McKinsey & Company, the famous management consulting firm, has published a number of wildly popular reports during the Great Awokening—such as 2015’s “Diversity Matters,” 2018’s “Delivering Through Diversity,” 2020’s “Diversity Wins,” and 2023’s “Diversity Matters Even More”—asserting that gender... Read More
Murphy's Law in Multicultural Houston
• April 9, 2024
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From Fox 26 in Houston: By Abigail Dye Published April 7, 2024 8:55pm CDT Man killed during staged robbery, documents state HOUSTON - In January, FOX 26 reported on what police thought was a robbery turned homicide when a bystander shot the robber, but an investigation now shows that the robbery was fake. 22-year-old Rasshauud... Read More
NPR
• April 9, 2024
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From Free Press: Berliner is in the business news section. 2011 shows up on a lot of David Rozado's graphs as the least woke year in the recent media, even better than 2010 and 2009. I suspect that the Democrats had a couple of positive accomplishments for the media to crow over in promoting Obama's... Read More
How to Tell if a Writer Is on Upper Middle Class Meth
• April 9, 2024
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From a Pioneer Works issue that tells you more than everything you could possibly want to know about the impact of Adderall on 21st Century writers: Adderall House Style How to know if a writer is on the stuff. By Amber A’Lee Frost ... PARANOIA “But what if he did, though?” Paranoia is a common... Read More
Lionel Shriver's Novel "Mania"
• April 8, 2024
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From the review in the Washington Post of right-of-center novelist Lionel Shriver's new book Mania: Shriver's choice to set her novel in an alternative timeline recent past is an interesting one. Her The Mandibles was set in a somewhat vague future, where society is in decay but could not be said to be quite post-apocalyptic... Read More
Psy-Ops
• April 8, 2024
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One of the more disappointing revelations of my life: My cousin was an officer in the Army Reserve. I asked, "What's your specialty?" "Psy-Ops." "What is it?" "Psychological Operations." "That sounds cool! What do you do?" "I'm in charge of a platoon of print shop operators. We make leaflets to drop behind enemy lines telling... Read More
Tall Jock Moms
• April 8, 2024
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In the NCAA basketball final game on Monday, 7'4" 300 lb. Zach Edey of Purdue goes up against 7'-2" 265 pound Donovan Clingan of Connecticut. These are two old-fashioned centers who don't shoot much outside 3 feet from the basket. Edey, who averaged 25 points per game this year and 28 in the first five... Read More
Is Liberalism Caused by Genes for IQ?
• April 6, 2024
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From Intelligence:
Haunted House
• April 6, 2024
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From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Couple fights to rid Toronto home of heritage status Original owner Stapleton Pitt Caldecott was opposed to immigration, historian says Michael Smee · CBC News · Posted: Apr 05, 2024 A couple in an affluent midtown Toronto neighbourhood is asking the city to remove the heritage designation from their century... Read More
Coalition of the Fringes Goes Circular Firing Squad in Amherst, MA
• April 4, 2024
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Jessica Winter in The New Yorker writes about an amusing war in Amherst, MA's public schools that pits ultra-liberal white parents Munchausen Syndroming their children into the transgender faith vs. black and Hispanic Christian DEI hire staffers who think this trans stuff is the work of Satan: It just occurred to me that after years... Read More
The Growth of Science Denialism
• April 4, 2024
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From Science: Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’ At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research 29 MAR 202411:30 AM ETBYMICHAEL PRICE Anthropologists are fighting the erroneous notion that humans are divided into a few separate races. They emphasize that human genes and populations show... Read More
Ben Sixsmith on "Noticing"
• April 4, 2024
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Ben Sixsmith writes in The Critic on my anthology Noticing: Why this new book will pass unnoticed Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers 4 April, 2024 By Ben Sixsmith One of the most influential and widely-read opinion columnists in the Western world is... Read More
My Podcast with Bronze Age Pervert
• April 4, 2024
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I recorded a 2.5 hour podcast with Bronze Age Pervert here. First hour is free for non-subscribers. One highlight of the paywalled last 1.5 hours is me considering BAP's theory that the dominance of black sprinters since the mid 1960s is possibly due to blacks benefiting more from PEDs. By the way, you can buy... Read More
Biden Administration: Race Doesn't Exist But...
• April 3, 2024
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From my new column in Taki's Magazine: That race does not exist is a popular view, but whenever liberals get in power, do they act upon it? If you believed this, you might assume that the current Democratic administration would therefore phase out the benighted federal racial categories. Yet last week the Biden administration’s Office... Read More
J.K. Rowling Volunteers to be Arrested for Violating Scotland's April Fool's Day Law Outlawing Insulting Female Impersonators
• April 2, 2024
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From People magazine:
The Plinth of Ozymandias
• April 1, 2024
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Chicago historian Rick Perlstein snaps a picture of the ominous-looking Obama library under construction and opines, "44 will not age well, I think." That said, a lot of Chicago architecture looks better in July than in March, so I suppose there's a chance it will come out okay under a blue sky. In contrast, here's... Read More
Why Did There Used to be So Few Nepo-Babies in Big League Baseball?
• March 31, 2024
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Here's a nature-nurture question I've often wondered about but never quite answered: why, until the late 20th Century, were there so few star baseball players who were the sons of other star baseball players? Today, it's common to see grand old baseball names like Yastrzemski, Guerrero, Bichette, and Biggio in the current headlines. But that's... Read More
We Had to Destroy the Democracy to Save It
• March 30, 2024
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From the Washington Post news section: It seems like the big threat to Our Democracy is democratic elections? “There’s been a change
Jeremy Carl on "Noticing"
• March 30, 2024
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From American Greatness: Steve Sailer: The Hidden Figure of the New Right Noticing will be welcome addition to the libraries of long-time fans and will serve as an introduction for younger readers who may have grown up in Sailer’s substantial intellectual shadow. By Jeremy Carl March 30, 2024 “If the meritocracy was real, Steve Sailer... Read More
How to Get Into UC Berkeley? Go to a Bad High School
• March 30, 2024
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From the San Francisco Chronicle: This SF public school is tops in UC Berkeley acceptance rate. It's not Lowell. UC Berkeley was the second-most competitive campus for fall 2023 applicants. This SF school had one of the highest acceptance rates in the state. By Madilynne Medina March 27, 2024 Students at a San Francisco public... Read More
Kahneman's Gun
• March 29, 2024
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Bo Winegard's Review of "Noticing" in "Aporia
• March 28, 2024
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From Aporia: Steve Sailer: Still noticing after all these years Bo Winegard reflects on the immense influence of Steve Sailer and reviews 'Noticing', a newly published anthology of Sailer's essays. MAR 28, 2024 Written by Bo Winegard When I was a young, closeted race realist in graduate school, I first began to read Steve Sailer’s... Read More
Time Bomb Skyscrapers
• March 28, 2024
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I'm sure these new cantilever skyscrapers are designed by fine engineers who have checked everything over and over and over. But they make a lot of people antsy just looking at them. And they make you think about the distant future. If the 1250' Empire State Building fell over sideways, it would wipe out a... Read More
Daniel Kahneman, RIP
• March 28, 2024
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The late Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was an IQ researcher for the Israeli military in an era when it did a world-historical good job at figuring out who its brightest guys were. The problem with IQ science, however, is that it get pretty repetitious pretty quick. So with his IQ researcher pal Abram Tversky, Kahneman progressed... Read More
Richard Serra, RIP
• March 27, 2024
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The late Richard Serra was perhaps the most intensely hated artist of the later 20th century by the public because wealthy institutions loved to ruin pretty downtown parks for officeworkers just wanting to eat their lunch amidst greenery by installing one of his giant rusting metal walls smack in the middle of it. As I... Read More
New in Taki's Magazine: "Buy My Book: An FAQ"
• March 27, 2024
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From my new column in Taki's Magazine: And here are Frequently Asked Questions about my book: Please note the addition of the Sarasota, Florida event and the deletion of the Miami, Florida public event. Those who have purchased Miami tickets will have them refunded. (The smaller private dinner in Miami will go on as scheduled.)... Read More
How Many Presidents Have Had an Artistic Bent?
• March 26, 2024
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Presidents of the United States tend to be jocks rather than artists. How many Presidents have had strong artistic orientations, outside of rhetoric? Not many. Jefferson was a fine, if impractical, architect (Monticello was a money pit: its octagon dome constantly leaked, so he could never afford to follow the enterprising Washington's example and free... Read More
This Is Bad
• March 26, 2024
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Sadly, this is for real. It's not made up with AI or anything. It's just as bad as it looks. At 1:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, a 1000 foot container freighter ran into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing a huge section of I-695 to collapse into the river. I'm guessing deaths are... Read More
Why Are Music and Sports Negatively Correlated?
• March 25, 2024
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An interesting question is how negative is the correlation between sports and music. For example, on Twitter, Samuel Johnson tracked down a quote from Paul McCartney about how none of the Beatles were interested in playing or watching soccer, which must be pretty statistically unlikely for four straight Liverpudlian blokes born in the 1940s. One... Read More
Will Shoeless Sho Ohtani Play a Year of Basketball?
• March 22, 2024
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Baseball wonder Shohei Ohtani, who recently signed a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers nominally worth $700 million, is involved in a gambling scandal involving $4.5 million from his bank account winding up with a bookie. Sports gambling is still illegal in the state of California (although it is recently being heavily promoted by the... Read More
How to Find Where the Pretendians Live
• March 21, 2024
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There has been a fair amount of attention devoted recently to the subject of "Pretendians," typically left of center white women in academic or government jobs who have decided that they aren't what they appear -- regular white women -- but are actually American Indian princesses who are not only glamorously attention-getting but also eligible... Read More
Surprise! Society's 2020 War on Order Leads to Disorder in 2024
• March 20, 2024
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From the New York Times news section: No doubt closing the schools had dire impact on students, especially the many below the Laptop Class, whose scions tended to adjust to classes over Zoom with fewer problems than the poor. In general, poor kids seem to benefit from coming every day to an organized place (a... Read More
"Noticing" Blurb Survey
• March 20, 2024
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With the paperback edition of Noticing being released next Tuesday, March 26, we are coming up fast on bulk of the Noticing book tour: You can buy paperbacks and tickets here.
1945: The Year Zero of American Architecture
• March 20, 2024
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From my Taki's Magazine column: Read the whole thing there.
The New Dim Age
• March 18, 2024
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We definitely aren't entering a Dark Age, but we seem to be entering a Dim Age in which scholars are increasingly forbidden by authorities to investigate important but politically fraught topics such as which type of immigrants generate the most tax revenue. From the Journal of Political Economy: Well, that sounds fascinating. So, what countries-of-origin... Read More
Kids These Days
• March 17, 2024
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Claudine Gay Groper is back with more on what's going on among young people: Something I’ve noticed with my age cohort is that a lot of the girls who became loudly and proudly “queer” in college are also disproportionately the ones most into social justice meme ideology. Even the ones who seemed quite heterosexual in... Read More
USA Today: "It Matters That the Faces of the Future Look Like the Faces of the Past"
• March 17, 2024
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Women's college basketball is popular at the moment in sizable part because of Caitlin Clark, a a record-setting 6'0" guard at the #2 ranked U. of Iowa who is sort of the Stephen Curry of women's basketball, shooting from 35' or more: From the USA Today sports section: Women's basketball needs faces of future to... Read More
What Keeps Our Octogenarian Elite Going?
• March 17, 2024
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Al Pacino put a worthy cap on his acting career in 2019 with a wonderful turn as Jimmy Hoffa in The Irishman. Nobody would begrudge the 83 year old Al a quiet retirement. Well, except perhaps his 52-year younger latest girlfriend, with whom he had a child recently. She probably didn't hook up with Al... Read More
Grade Inflation at Harvard
• March 16, 2024
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Also, note that student quality at Harvard has probably declined in this decade due to SAT/ACT no longer being mandatory. So the recent grade inflation is even worse than it looks Grade inflation, which has surged again in the 2020s due to covid and George Floyd, necessitates standardized tests. If high schools and colleges had... Read More
1927 Cancel Culture
• March 16, 2024
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The famous saying about old times Hollywood movies is that they were made by Jews for Catholics about Protestants. One time Protestants tried making a silent movie about Catholics, the 1927 silent comedy The Callahans and the Murphys, directed by George Hill with a screenplay by his future wife Frances Marion, it didn't work out... Read More
Stanford Keeps Kids with 2 Digit IQs from Graduating High School Because It Won't Admit Its Dumping SAT Was Stupid
• March 14, 2024
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In recent years, there has been a surprisingly reasonable push in high schools to offer more statistics-oriented courses, both because statistics are useful in the modern world, and because the traditional algebra-calculus track, while utterly crucial for many STEM fields, can be a major stumbling block for graduation for kids who aren't cut out to... Read More
ISteve Content
• March 14, 2024
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From the Daily Mail: That sounds like fun, but let me dial back expectations. The Second Couple aren't caught up in scandal, they're just members of Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles, which is being sued by a billionaire's son whose application for membership was blackballed because his whole family are felt by the board... Read More
Kids These Days
• March 14, 2024
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From NBC News: Nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds Women ages 18 to 26 were more than twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ than their millennial counterparts, the survey found. March 13, 2024, 1:00 AM PDT By Brooke Sopelsa The percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer... Read More
NPR: "In the World of Medicine, Race-Based Diagnoses Are Still Very Real"
• March 14, 2024
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It may seem as if Craig Venter's sales spiel at the 2000 Rose Garden Ceremony for the Human Genome Project becoming the conventional wisdom of the 21st Century -- Race does not exist biologically -- is merely a midwit distraction, but the true believers really want the actual health care to delete race-based practices that... Read More
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