Steve Sailer: iSteve

From the NYT: Down With Shareholder Value   By JOE NOCERA  Published: August 10, 2012 I’ve been known to say that I was present a...

As the country gets fatter, its politicians get skinnier. My old articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

From the AP: The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would...

It's especially amazing that the American women's soccer team triumphed in its semifinal and final games over two countries with ...

The Chinese public has recently begun to question its government's and media's emphasis on winning Olympic gold medals while ignorin...

Here's an interesting bit of science fiction literary history: Robert A. Heinlein's 17-page critique of the first draft of The Mot...

In which sports are men men and women athletes most and least likely to marry each other?  The least likely sport for marrying a fellow...

Anecdata time: About 20 years ago, corporate America started experimenting with video-conferencing to cut down on its huge bills for tr...

Q. What’s the oddest thing about Jamaican 100 meter sprinter Usain Bolt? A. Although Bolt epitomizes West African-descended sprin...

My new Taki's Magazine column  consists of the answers to a bunch of made-up questions I asked myself about the Olympics. Q. An NB...

From the New York Times: Perfectly Captivating for Their Imperfections By SAM BORDEN  The United States women’s soccer team is not a...

From Gardiner Harris in the NYT: Where Streets Are Thronged With Strays Baring Fangs  No country has as many stray dogs as India, and...

Why don't relatively smart, sophisticated network TV shows like multiple Emmy-winning Modern Family  do well with the Hispanic audience...

From the U.K. Guardian : The poison of inequality was behind last summer's riots   A year on from the riots, the government is st...

The Hetch Hetchy Valley in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is the Lower 48's second most spectacular glacier sculpted valley ...

For Americans planning on watching on tape delay, I won't give away who won the finals of the men's 100m dash on the London track, ...

To the delight of the home crowd, the Olympic long jump was won by a red-haired Englishman named Greg Rutherford, whose great-grandfather...

One of the more baffling recent controversies has been over the hair of Olympic all around champion girl's gymnast Gabby Douglas. As f...