Steve Sailer: iSteve

According to Sitemeter, the iSteve webpages are coming up on their 10 millionth unique visit since I installed Sitemeter in (I think) Decemb...

A reader points out a problem with free market blackmail without government involvement: Blackmail does not necessarily end with the origina...

There's something that just doesn't feel right about Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner denying themselves an exclamation point in the...

A long-time reader points to this Daily Mail article on a British brouhaha: Plan to legalise parakeet shoots branded 'racist' by wil...

From The Independent : ONE morning in December 1824, the Duke of Wellington received an unpleasant letter. 'My Lord Duke,' it began...

Since the International Olympic Committee owns a monopoly on the Olympics, a popular sports festival in which the stars don't get paid, ...

Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson the summer he turned 28, following his first year at Harvard Law School. On their first date, they saw Sp...

You might think that the question of whether mothers of young children should work full-time, part-time, or stay home, would be considered a...

Back when I was a kid in the 1960s, the universal assumption among right-thinking Americans was, "They do it better in Sweden." Th...

One reader commented upon my review of Disgrace , the film adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Nobel-winning novel with John Malkovich as a Sou...

A Presidential pardon. I reviewed why Bill Clinton gave Marc Rich a pardon here . I can't help posting this quote from Harvey Weinstein ...

My review of the new film Disgrace , starring John Malkovich, based on Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee's 1999 novel about the horrifying fat...

Somebody asked if there's ever been a movie about Death Row weddings. Here's Tracey Ullman's recent clip in which she plays the ...

From the San Francisco Chronicle : Killer Groupies an unexplained mystery Stefan Tomik, Chronicle Staff Writer Even in his death row cell, s...

Fidel Castro has kept his private life intensely secret, but it turns out to be exactly what you'd expect. The Telegraph totes up the n...

As you may recall, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision hinged in surprising proportion on an experiment done by sociologist Kennet...

A reader writes regarding the video of the gang fight in a Chicago school in which a 16-year-old passerby was killed. This is where I grew ...

A friend emails: The discussion of Left and Right always assumes underlying agreement on liberalism. Left-liberal social democrats and Right...