Steve Sailer: iSteve

Arnold Kling writes : My position on breaking up banks generates questions from two groups. Libertarians ask, how can I justify breaking up ...

The New York Times Magazine's December perennial, " The Year in Ideas ," had a bit of an off year in 2009. For example: Black...

You'll recall that a few months ago, a man dropped into David Letterman's car a pitch for a movie for Letterman's Worldwide Pant...

The San Francisco Weekly rakes the muck about San Francisco city government in " The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. " I especially...

I have a few nice things to say about pundit David Frum in my new VDARE.com column . My published articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Ste...

The current President of the United States, like the previous President, is a lightweight who got elected only because of who his daddy was....

From the AP : The final chapter has been written for the lone bookstore on the streets of Laredo . [That's Laredo, Texas, not Nuevo Lare...

I finally figured out why the Japanese love to go the driving range and hit golf balls instead of play golf on a course. It ties into the an...

From the New York Times : The Obama administration said Tuesday that the Shinnecock Indians on Long Island meet the criteria for federal rec...

Back in 1991-1993, I long-distance managed two employees who were stationed near Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, a small tow...

From the Washington Post , A broad cross-section of House Democrats unveiled a new comprehensive immigration reform bill Tuesday, laying do...

The New York Times has a long story on a high-end Canadian sports doctor who got arrested crossing the border with Human Growth Hormone. Ti...

I certainly haven't seen all the 2009 movies (and I never will), but I'll predict that the Best Director Oscar won't go to James...

My March 23, 2009 article in The American Conservative on the first decade after the demise of mandatory bilingual education California wa...

From the NYT : Ingram received 1,304 total votes in the closest contest in the award’s 75-year history, beating Stanford running back Toby G...

From Dr. Housing Bubble , a graph relevant to the problem of allocating blame for the Housing Bubble/Crash between the Clinton and Bush Admi...

Here's another book I skimmed at the book store: The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by ESPN columnist Bill Sim...

I've been skimming a few books at the book store. Here's one: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suic...