Steve Sailer: iSteve

Physicist Geoffrey West explains in the NYT Magazine, " A Physicist Solves the City ," that he  now understands cities: In essence...

The lame duck Senate is scheduled to vote on the DREAM Act, which is, in effect, a sneaky mid-sized amnesty, on Saturday. My published arti...

As C. Van Carter of Across Difficult Country pointed out in the comments, Google's new Ngrams website lets you graph the frequency of u...

I'm reading the book Fault Lines by former IMF chief economist Raghuram G. Rajan of the U of Chicago economics dept. It's a pretty ...

In the latest brouhaha over new Nixon tapes, I saw something in passing by Slate writer Jack Shafer that is illustrative of the most fundame...

Imagine this scenario: Imagine that Hitler and Stalin both died in, say, 1935 and replaced by unaggressive Euroweenies of the Gorbachev sort...

From the New York Times : North Korean Nuclear Ability Seen to Far Outpace Iran’s By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD WASHINGTON ...

From the Arlington (VA) Sun-News : If the United States wants to claw its way back to economic self-determination, it should look not at Ch...

From my movie review in Taki's Magazine : On Friday, I was shocked like the rest of America to learn that Richard Nixon had been taped...

I don't have a definitive answer to that old evolutionary theory question, but I wanted to cite this one bit of data from that Iraqi ter...

A Finnish-American reader writes: Steve, have you ever investigated the connections between Finnish and Japanese culture? They are legion, a...

Taksin Nuoret writes : Ever since December 2001, when the results of the first PISA survey were made public, the Finnish educational sy...

In Taki's Magazine , Jim Goad explains what Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is in the hoosegow for.  Apparently, hell hath no fury like a f...

Why has Arizona moved to the right while Nevada is, at least relative to the rest of the country, moving to the left? My new VDARE column of...

Mickey Kaus has been covering in Newsweek the maneuvering to pass the DREAM amnesty by the lame duck Senate (after it was passed by a lame d...

Nicholas Wade reports in the New York Times: 'Science' Is Cut from Anthropology Group's Guiding Plan, Deepening a Rift Anthro...

Election expert Michael Barone writes about the midterms: The Finnish vote. Around 100 years ago, Finnish immigrants flocked to the mines...

My impression is that most Americans believe that to be rich you have to have a butler, like on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air . Worldlier America...