November 3, 2006

Average IQ of enlisted men

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Following the latest John Kerry brouhaha , a reader asked what the average IQ of U.S. military personnel is. From table 2.8 of the is Depar...
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November 2, 2006

The Kerry-Bush Flap

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I know I'm late to the party, but the controversy over Kerry's remarks about not studying and Iraq remind me again of how awful the...

The Internet and satellite television mean that "metaethnic frontiers" are everywhere

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When new high-speed printing presses became available in the 1890s, the cost of a New York City newspaper fell from a nickel to a penny, v...

America and Israel:

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A reader writes: it seems to me both neocons (esp. Jewish neocons...

Diversity's next frontier

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A big corporation recently hired several cannibals in the interes...

Levitt is skeptical of the pornography-cuts-rape theory, too

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On his Freakonomics blog, Steven D. Levitt writes: Everybody and their brother is sending me links ...
November 1, 2006

Foundation of Empire

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With Hari Seldon -like ambition, biologist Peter Turchin , in his book War and Peace and War , offers a theory for the rise and fall of ...
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October 31, 2006

WaPo: 58% of Iraqi marriages are between relatives

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Here's a very good article I'd never seen before by Howard Schnieder from 2000 in the Washington Post: " Saudi Intermarriage...
October 30, 2006

David Warsh on the NYT-Steven D. Levitt conflict of interest

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Via Greg Mankiw , veteran economics reporter David Warsh reflects on why Freakonomics was such a huge bestseller. In passing, he notes ...

Economists Gone Wild!

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In Slate, libertarian economist Steven E. Landsburg trumpets a popular new study called " Pornography, Rape, and the Internet ...

Car-burnings are worse in France this year than last:

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Audacious Epigone points out: Media coverage of the Fre...
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October 29, 2006

Stay the course!

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Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly responds to the Education Department finally allowing single ...
October 27, 2006

An important literary-historiographical event: the first publication in English of parts of Solzhenitsyn's "Two Hundred Years Together"

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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute just sent me a copy of their handsome new book, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings,...
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So, who is the ex-LaRouchie foreign policy pundit?

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I won't explain the persuasive evidence for his long-ago Lyndon LaRouche connection, since that would necessitate revealing his real ...

Status competition

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Libertarians David Friedman and Will Wilkinson are explaining that it doesn't matter how ...
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October 25, 2006

Ira Hayes, Indians, and Alcohol

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One of the three major characters in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" about the Iwo Jim flag raisers is Ira Hayes (pla...
October 24, 2006

John Tierney on the real problem in Iraq

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Before becoming a NYT op-ed columnist and disappearing behind the Subscription Curtain, John Tierney spe...

"The Bow Begat the Bushmen"

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Greg Cochran explains how cultural change speeds up genetic change in the comments section of ...