Steve Sailer: iSteve

It's time to shake my tin cup again. You can send me an email and I'll send you my P.O. Box address. Or, you can use Paypal to ...

A continuing theme here at iSteve over the years has been the future of India.  As I first noticed back in 1981 when I was at UCLA, the...

Jay Matthews delivers breathtaking news in the Washington Post: acceptance rates to get into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and T...

From the Center for Immigration Studies, a first glance at the 2010 Census numbers: Steven Camarota, (202) 466-8185, sac@cis.org Census: Po...

It's time to shake my tin cup again. You can send me an email and I'll send you my P.O. Box address. Or, you can use Paypal to...

At Super-Economy , Tino takes another crack at PISA scores, putting up graphs that overcome two of the weaknesses I pointed out in my own P...

Here's that big new science story I teased a couple of days ago . By Carl Zimmer in the New York Times : An international team of scient...

The NYT runs a long, mildly gloating article over the Washington Post's Kaplan unit being sued by the Obama Administration for dispara...

You always come across smug dismissals of The Bell Curve as being discredited, but you never hear explanations from them of why the U.S. mi...

From my movie review in Taki's Magazine : Casino Jack is a consistently amusing biopic starring Kevin Spacey as the manic, bull-necke...

I don't know what it is, but I've been alerted that there should be science news soon of a caliber comparable to the recent human-ne...

Sorry about the slowdown around here. I do have a movie review coming up in Taki's one of these days of Kevin Spacey's biopic Casin...

My big graph showing how the four main American races would do compared to 64 other countries in this year's PISA reading test scores i...

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...