Steve Sailer: iSteve

Regions with lack of fortifications are one of those dogs that didn't bark conundrums that are hard to research. It's obvious that E...

The concept of a Malthusian Trap , in which the finite amount of land limits food supply and thus population, is a highly stylized but still...

In Newsweek, Mickey Kaus blogs: When I worried that the Obama White House might have a plan to enact the so-called DREAM Act in "s...

From a new paper, The Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough (Preliminary) by Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn, we f...

The WikiLeaks' State Dept. cables revealed so far have been mildly entertaining. For example, American diplomats reported on President S...

You're going to be hearing a lot about the Weinsteins' movie The King's Speech between now and the Oscars. It's a sort of fa...

Newsweek has a long profile of Rep. Luis Gutierrez, whom I recently cited as a prime example of how racial gerrymandering creates extremist...

From my review in Taki's Magazine : In outline, The King’s Speech sounds like a Wayans Brothers spoof ( Oscar Movie ) of a Weinstein B...

Audacious Epigone has a table derived from the Pew Research Center of net migration trends for white people in the housing bubble years of...

Ever since African-American voters in Washington D.C. kicked out school reformer Michelle Rhee, lowering property values in gentrifying sect...

Ross Douthat writes in the NYT : Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been president when the Transportation Security Administrati...

Heather Mac Donald explains in NRO in The Set-Aside Boondoggle another detriment on the economy.  Allow me to reiterate that the one compa...

Asks Stephen Dubner on the Freakonomics blog, citing a paper by an American economist about how the Mexican government has done much of what...

You can't complain that high tuition private colleges aren't well-staffed these days. From an article in the Washington Post about ...

The publishing sensation of 2010 is Thilo Sarrazin's million selling work of statistical analysis, Germany Abolishes Itself . You might ...

Via Arnold Kling , David Goodhart, editor of the U.K. Prospect , reviews Thilo Sarrazin's book Germany Abolishes Itself in his magazine...

Read my review in Taki's Magazine: Kids these days have short attention spans. Or so I’ve often been informed. For example, Baroness ...

In VDARE this week, I offer the President another policy suggestion that he won't hear from anybody else that would be politically feasi...