Steve Sailer: iSteve

My father has died at age 95. Here are a few pictures. L.A. County Art Museum, 1984 This was taken during the 1984 Summer Olympics, ...

This is what I found tonight front and center on NYTimes.com: Boy’s Gay Marriage Appeal Gets Audience   By AARON EDWARDS  Kameron Sla...

According to Wikipedia :  Otto von Bismarck remarked at the end of the 19th century that the most significant event of the 20th century w...

From my new essay in Taki's Magazine : Are criminals in real life ever even one-tenth as fascinating as they are in Christopher Nola...

I don't have any inside information on Huma Abedin , Hillary Clinton's close personal advisor, so let me speculate irresponsibly. ...

From the L.A. Times : Is it 'relevant' that James Holmes is white?   By Michael McGough  At the risk of being accused of hav...

Here's a promotional video marketing Bellingham, Washington , a small city on Puget Sound up near the Canadian border, as a " L...

Thomas Friedman explains : Obama should aspire to make America the launching pad where everyone everywhere should want to come to launc...

Perhaps my favorite novel is Evelyn Waugh's 1938 journalism satire Scoop , and my favorite stretch of prose might be  Scoop's sere...

In the U.S. in this century, the conventional wisdom has become that the problems posed by the poor, since they must be 0% genetic in origi...

The leftwing journalist Alexander Cockburn has died of cancer, age 71.  He came from an extended family that displayed, over quite a f...

In Britain, there is still a small but measurable difference in social metrics between people on different sides of the Ivanhoe gap after ...

David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale and a prominent neocon, has a new book:  America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Disma...

Not "Brave," but close enough Brave , the latest Pixar animated kids' movie, is okay, but doesn't stand up to the Nor...

Prince Charles in a kilt One of the themes of my " Diversity before Diversity " series is that it's simplistic to assume ...

Nate Silver, a baseball statistics analyst turned electoral analyst, has an article in the NYT Magazine entitled " Let's Play Meda...

From NPR: How Stereotypes Can Drive Women To Quit Science  by SHANKAR VEDANTAM  It isn't just that fewer women choose to go int...

The Washington Post reports: Jeremy Lin’s move to Rockets could give team financial windfall from China  By Scott Soshnick, Published...