May 15, 2006

Warren Buffett on taxes

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During a Q&A at the recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, the world's second richest man sai...

Why multicultural societies are less creative

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Conventional wisdom holds that the more ethnically diverse a society is, the more "vibrant" its cultural creativity. This sounds...
May 14, 2006

Species Do Not Exist!

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One of the common arguments made for why race supposedly does not exist is that unless there's a race for everyone and everyone in his ...

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Great White Defendants Galore! Why stop with Great White Defendant (a term coined by Tom Wolfe in Bonfire of the Vanities ) when you can go...

Tom Wolfe's Jefferson Lecture:

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The great journalist/novelist explains his point of view. An excerpt : ...

The Catholic Church versus The Da Vinci Code

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Mean Mr. Mustard writes: When someone tells an outright...
May 13, 2006

The Great Pundit Meltdown of 2006

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A reader comments: You wrote: "Do you get the feeling the WS...

"Mission: Impossible III"

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Excerpts from my review in the upcoming American Conservative: (subscribe here ): With Tom ...

I'll be on WBAL

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in Baltimore (AM 1090) from 3:15 to 4:00 EDT today, Friday, May 12, to discuss my VDARE.com column on the hunt for the Great White Defe...

Glaivester's thought for the day

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Is Evolution Your Science or Your Religion? ...

Cochran and Parker Try to Figure Out Why Bush Hates America

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Parapundit offers Greg Cochran's list of theories of why the President is trying to ruin our country ("Maybe he's a Skoptsy...

Great article: The genetics of nepotism and neposchism in Shakespeare's history plays

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William D. Hamilton's kin selection calculus strikes again! St...

Birthday bias in the the National Hockey League: Nature vs. Nurture

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World Cup soccer players (typically the top 20 or so players from each of the top soccer countries) are born in equal amounts in the firs...
May 12, 2006

Diversity Doings at the University of Chicago

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A reader writes: I thought you might be amused by...

Levitt: "Maybe the World Cup Wasn’t the Best Example"

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On their Freakonomics blog, Levitt and Dubner step back from their claim in the New York Times that World Cup soccer players are mostly...
May 11, 2006

South Korean birthrate hits 1.08 babies per woman:

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South Korea's birth rate has fallen to its lowest level on r...

Who cares about protecting human biodiversity when there is flora and fauna biodiversity to protect?

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You might recall the movie "Gorillas in the Mist" with Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey, in which the villains we...
May 9, 2006

Affordable Family Formation and college debt

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A reader writes: I've read your articles about the political ...