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Conor Friedersdorf quotes John McPhee: In the First World War, General Ulrich Wille led the Swiss to victory. Victory consisted of successf...

Ever since the New York Times Magazine ran that sob story by NYT Federal Reserve reporter Edmund Andrews about how he had been lured by lend...

The single largest problem posed by global warming would be if the seas rose and increasingly inundated Bangladesh, an extremely densely pop...

So much creative talent goes into video games these days, but the downside is that games are something you either do or you don't, so th...

For decades, everybody who was anybody demanded more mortgage lending to minorities. Skeptics were marginalized and vilified. So, in this de...

Here's J. Philippe Rushton's and Arthur R. Jensen's new paper: Race and IQ: A Theory-Based Review of the Research in Richard Nis...

Give the kids a really hard practice test when they walk in the door. Measure progress against that. From the WSJ: SAT Coaching Found to Boo...

This handsome 135 page paperback by R.J. Stove, A Student's Guide to Music History , listing on Amazon for only $8.00, is a near perfect...

From " Fear Masquerading as Tolerance" by Christopher Caldwell in Prospect , presumably from his upcoming book Reflections on the...

In the New Republic , John McWhorter has a column up, including vague swipes at me, resenting the fact that most evidence of a Stone Age gre...

" Message in What We Buy, but Nobody's Listening " My published articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

Joe Weisenthal at Clusterstock is reading up on one of the central figures in predatory securitizing, Angelo Mozilo of Countrwide, the count...

California's top political columnist, Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee, writes : Memo to Californians from everyone else in the world:...

In response to my new VDARE.com article on what the data show about the origin of the mortgage meltdown in California -- i.e., that there...

Here are a couple of the graphs from my new VDARE.com article on the causes of the default crisis, focusing on the Big One: California. And...

The New York Times offers a cool interactive map showing that foreclosure rates at level of census tract for New York City. And, whattaya kn...

From the LA Times : Emulating a controversial practice at many colleges, two high-achieving public school districts in California are giving...

Evidently, the New York Times just doesn't get New York Times jokes. Here's today's actual NYT headline: "Minorities Hit...