Steve Sailer: iSteve

For a couple of years , I've been pointing ou t that because African-American culture has become so narrow and inward-looking, it's ...

A friend calls to mind Wordsworth's sonnet "London, 1802:" MILTON! thou should'st be living at this hour: Englan...

The late Daniel Seligman, who more or less invented the kind of heavily quantitative journalism I practice, loved gambling. (Here's his ...

Q. If we nationalize the banks, will we see them used in service of a nationalist economic policy? A. Don't be silly. My published artic...

From the late Dan Seligman's Keeping Up column in Fortune : August 14, 1989 ALL IN THE, ER, FAMILY Perplexities abound when you ponder...

Obama says his administration will announces its home"owner" bailout package next week. Let me guess: the policy will formalize th...

Well, I found the 2005 National Community Reinvestment Coalition report on CRA commitments in trillions of dollars, so I'm going to make...

To expand up Joe Guzzardi's coinage "hate facts," now we see that the Prime Minister of Britain is on verge of an aneurysm in ...

When I came out of the house today, Stop signs had been erected at the intersection at the end of my block, and big white stripes painted on...

From the late Daniel Seligman's Keeping Up column in Fortune : September 10, 1990, Soon after this article is printed, it will t...

Daniel Seligman, who died last week at age 84, was my role model as a quantitative journalist. From the 1970s into the 1990s, he wrote a blo...

More from old Fortune "Keeping Up" columns by the late Daniel Seligman. Here's one where using 1980s hardware and software, an...

This is a big question raised by Denis Dutton's book "The Art Instinct," so I'm going to focus just on one small field whe...

Philosopher Denis Dutton, who runs the universally admired Arts & Letters Daily website that highlights three worthy highbrow articles ...

... how come my teenage son keeps getting a couple of offers of preapproved new credit cards each week? My published articles are archived a...

The highest paid baseball player, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees, is in the doghouse because his failure to pass a steroid test in 2...

After Hank Paulson's turn as Treasury Secretary, the conventional wisdom became: We don't need as Treasury Secretaries anymore of th...

A featured review, " Charles Darwin, Abolitionist ," by Christopher Benfey, a professor of English, in the Feb. 1, 2009 New York T...