Steve Sailer: iSteve

Back in the 1930s, the great poet W.H. Auden used to joke about the cultural power of well-placed homosexuals like himself. (The heterosexu...

From Time : Whatever started it, Gavrilets notes, humans’ transition to monogamy was much more radical than the sexual revolution of the ...

A very old way to summarize politicians' personalities is to speculate upon which section of the Sunday newspaper they would most look ...

The New York Times notices something I've been mentioning for about a dozen years: Latino Growth Not Fully Felt at Voting Booth B...

Some good stuff in this science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott ( Alien , Blade Runner) , especially Michael Fassbender as the evil g...

Three years ago, I blogged about how the culture of the bond rating companies, such as Warren Buffett's Moody's, had been very slo...

Blogger " Those Who Can See " offers a global introduction to differing rates of corruption. Audacious Epigone calculates a mode...

Greg Cochran brings up a topic that seems like it has disappeared over the last generation: reading speed . In the old days, the immense v...

From the New York Times, an article on the annual Chinese college admissions test madness, the gao kao , and how Chinese test culture is s...

Richard Wagner's four opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung was even more influential in the later 1800s and early 1900s than J.R.R. To...

From the New York Times Magazine, a long article about male teachers getting all inappropriate with boy students at an expensive NYC school...

"The best defense is a good offense" may explain much of the otherwise puzzling gay marriage project. Gay Liberation unleashed ...

My column in Taki's Magazine  attempts to put the extraordinary opening overture of Lars von Trier's 2011 End of the World movie ...

The hugely profitable  Twilight  series has left Hollywood scratching its collective heads. In theory, the discovery that there's a vast...

Here are excerpts from a review I published in VDARE.com in 2003 of a book written by Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth ...

Peter Beinart, former editor of Marty Peretz's New Republic , is puzzled by a new poll of Jewish voters: They’re a lot less enthus...

From Slate , via Gucci Little Piggy: Marc Ambinder: How Washington's Gay Mafia Helped My Career   By Robert Wright | Posted Monda...

From the New York Times : Andrew Huxley, Nobel-Winning Physiologist, Dies at 94   by Denise Gellene  Sir Andrew Huxley, a British s...