Steve Sailer: iSteve

From PC World : Google Maps Misplaces Lincoln Memorial Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PC World Aug 28, 2010 2:38 pm A curious thing has been hap...

Guy Deutscher proposes in the New York Times Magazine a commonsensical compromise on the old Sapir-Whorf controversy that differences in lan...

Nothing much going on, so I'll regale you with my favorite set of index entries.  Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire begins with a 999 l...

The Washington Monthly has a long article about colleges that are "dropout factories," such as Chicago State, a four-year college ...

James Fulford at VDARE.com's blog quotes the following from The Atlantic about one of the main pushers for amnesty in the Bush White Hou...

I'd rather write than beg, but it's time to shake the tin cup again. You can send me an email and I'll send you my P.O. Box a...

You can always count on Tom Friedman in the NYT to express the state-of-the-art conventional wisdom in its purest form : [Geoffrey] Canada’s...

The New York Times highlights an article, To Catch Cairo Overflow, 2 Megacities Rise in the Sand , about two new cities that the government...

Robin Hanson asks " Why No Gather-Sport? " Now sports let us show off many kinds of physically-expressed abilities. But it seems ...

A couple of years ago, the NYT broke the story of a 22-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer, Efraim Diveroli , who had landed a $300,000,000 Pen...

Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was a huge deal in American culture a decade ago, but for years now, you only hear of him when he lightens h...

I'd rather write than beg, but it's time to shake the tin cup again. You can send me an email and I'll send you my P.O. Box...

According to a Newsweek cover story , the ten best countries in the world are: Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Luxembourg, Norway,...

From my movie review in Taki's Magazine : The year’s third romantic comedy about artificial insemination, The Switch , turns out to be ...

From a Los Angeles Times article on the extravagance of Persian weddings in LA: Shahbal Shabpareh and his band Black Cats — a premier Iran...

With all this talk about Israel needing to attack Iran before Iran's genocidal anti-Semitism inevitably makes it nuke Israel, I got to w...

From my new column in VDARE.com on the doctrine of jus soli : Abuse of the current American citizenship regulations permits bizarrel...

From the NYT : As HUD Chief, Cuomo Earns a Mixed Score By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and MICHAEL POWELL As Andrew M. Cuomo campaigns for govern...