Steve Sailer: iSteve

When I was at UCLA in 1980-82, the place to be on weekend evenings was Westwood, the dining and movie theatre district just south of UCLA...

From the NYT , a map of percentage of adults who admit to binge-drinking: The lowest state was Utah, the highest Wisconsin.  My old articl...

From my new column in Taki's Magazine : Although future behavioral taboos are notoriously hard to predict, it’s clear that within this ...

The newspapers are full of stories about how casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has given $5 million dollars to Newt Gingrich to run attack ads ...

Over the last year or two I've noticed a growing conventional wisdom consensus that inequality in America has something to do with nutri...

Here's a good NYT article on one example of what seems like a general pattern in the subprime disaster: affinity scams in which immigran...

I finally got around to watching Vince Gilligan's Emmy-winning AMC TV show Breaking Bad,  and I like this dialogue from the first seaso...

Eamonn Fingleton writes on " The Myth of Japan's Failure ." We've all heard a million times about how since 1990 Japan has...

The standard assumption is that teen mothers are less likely to have healthy children than older mothers. But my late father-in-law, who kne...

From the Washington Post: Portlandia, your 15 minutes are up. Long live Pittsburgh By Maura Judkis  Out: Portland In: Pittsburgh.  This ye...

Here's an economics paper by Gustaf Bruze on assortative mating among movie stars: "Marriage Choices of Movie Stars: Does Spouses...

From my review in Taki's Magazine : In 1979, Margaret Thatcher won the first of her three terms as Britain’s prime minister. By 2012, h...

The Pentagon is supposed to cut its budget mildly as part of last summer's debt reduction agreement, and a lot of attention is finally b...

Why was I wrong?  More than 30 years ago, in the fall of 1981, I first heard about a freshman basketball player at the U. of Houston, Akeem...

Nicholas Wade, who is retiring from the New York Times, has an NYT article on recent evolution among African-Americans since arriving in th...

I've never had a very strong opinion on the lawsuit of the man in Connecticut who scored too high on an IQ test to be a cop, but I'v...

The NYT features an essay by Thomas Vinciguera, " 30 Years Later, Revisiting 'Brideshead,' " on the famous 1982 miniseries...

I got to wondering about this crucial question while sipping on an eggnog and reading an L.A. Times article  about the most and least obese ...