Steve Sailer: iSteve

So, Santorum won Iowa, Romney New Hampshire, and Gingrich South Carolina, with Paul hanging in there in all three. In other words, Republica...

I have this vague impression that Saturday is the day when the New York Times dumps its discrimination stories -- you know, the kind of clue...

Every culture is crazy in its own way. As I've gotten older, I've come to assume that the Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys tend to kn...

Commenter Maya comes up with a pretty good analogy: The truly smart people aren't staying away [from teaching] because of the money. The...

One to two centuries ago, from the Monroe Doctrine at least through the Smedley Butler era of pushing around banana republics, American fore...

It's well known that education majors in college have some of the lowest SAT / ACT scores of any major. The Education Realist blog poi...

From the Washington Post, a news story (i.e., not an opinion piece) by reporter Peter Wallsten: Obama-linked group accused of anti-Semitism ...

An early contender for that title has got to be that the 2012 London Olympics will witness the debut of Women's Boxing as an Olympic spo...

One of the wise men of part-time punditry, Noah Millman is moving from The American Scene to The American Conservative to join Rod Dreher ...

Sean O'Neal of The Onion's AV Club is angry that a David Letterman staffer was honest about that professional comedy is dominated b...

In Taki's Magazine , I write: Perhaps the most lauded book of 2011 was Thinking, Fast and Slow by the Princeton psychologist Daniel Kah...

From Foreign Policy : False Flag   A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of t...

The Italian cruise ship fiasco, in which the captain is under arrest for refusing the Italian Coast Guard's demand that he return to the...

Lee Siegel blogs in the New York Times : Pundits have already begun the endless debate over whether Mr. Romney’s wealth and religion are hin...

The New York Times ran an article over the weekend on how the government's racial categories don't fit Hispanics well: For Many Lati...

Gregory Cochran writes in 2012 Edge  question series on "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" Germs Ca...

At Edge.org, Jonathan Gottschall offers a theory for why natural selection can't seem to make up its mind about left-handedness: Which ...

I have to say that I've never quite gotten the excitement over epigenetics as a revolutionizing nature-nurture debates. This is not to s...