Steve Sailer: iSteve

For years, I've been reading about deals where the government forces real estate developers to sell a certain percentage of lower priced...

A commenter points to this AP news story : Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore commun...

Christopher Caldwell, author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West has a pretty good essay in Time M...

Do what the Swiss do: make the mountains a little less wildernessy. President Obama is visiting Yellowstone and Grand Canyon national parks ...

Over on Taki's Magazine , my Wednesday column is up about the upcoming PBS documentary by Ken Burns, who created the superb The Civil W...

I'm looking for practical suggestions for what the GOP can do to revive itself over both short and long run timeframes (e.g., 2009-2010,...

Here's my book review in VDARE.com : Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the Wes...

One of the amusing aspects of Matthew Yglesias's blog is his 1966 liberal obsession with the superiority of the Blue-Eyed Utopias of Nor...

The revelation that yesterday's outages of Twitter and Facebook may have been due to Russian distributed denial of service attacks on a ...

Obviously, the U.S. government can't afford all its overseas commitments. So, which should we cut back and how much would we save by lea...

What is America's increasingly lethal war in Afghanistan about these days other than Barack Obama trying to to check off the Must Look T...

You aren't supposed to say bad things about the beloved Bill James, the ex-boiler-room attendant who revolutionized the interpretation o...

... the many articles over the last 20 years like this new one in Slate are pretty unintentionally funny: Does this Purple Mink Make Me Look...

The California mortgage market is central to understanding the chain of events that brought down the world economy. No doubt something else ...

In my weekly Taki's Magazine column , I write about the HBO television series "The Wire" and its little-mentioned tendency to...

I have to confess that I've never firmly understood life expectancy statistics. Razib has been putting up graphs on GNXP of life expecta...

From an op-ed in the New York Times : Safe at Home By DALTON CONLEY THE financial crisis has given rise to all sorts of wrongheaded ideas, a...

Steven Pinker has an article on how the rate of killing has tended to fall since prehistoric times. I would suggest that war just doesn'...