Steve Sailer: iSteve

From the Chronicles of Higher Education: Harvard Sociologist Says His Research Was ‘Twisted’  By Tom Bartlett  Robert D. Putnam’s...

Dwight Garner, the New York Times' fine daily book reviewer,  complains about the decline of criticism by critics : I’m a professio...

Americans love a winner. We like superstars. We have a huge country and our institutions are conducive to the formulation of world-conqueri...

One of my recurrent themes is that dopey intellectual frameworks can lead to wacky results that are often the opposite of what the dominant...

I'm reminded of something else I wanted to mention: how fans often don't really notice when there's something odd-looking abo...

Remember how Australia won a pot of medals at its Sydney Games in 2000? Remember how part-Aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman's 400 meter v...

From the Washington Post : For Obama, hoppy days are here again President Obama has been talking about beer on the campaign trail —...

The New York Times alerts us to an overlooked crisis: Gay Male Comics Await the Spotlight By JASON ZINOMAN  COULD James Adomian beco...

I have been pointing out since 2000 that India has been terrible at winning Olympic medals, and this seems to have been the first year that...

David Stern, commissioner of the NBA, is dissatisfied with Olympic basketball. Either the U.S. wins, which is pretty boring because it ough...

From my new column in Taki's Magazine : I turned on the TV and saw a new reality show with an intriguing premise: How big of a hea...

The role of role models in a country's sports success is a curious one. For example, it is regularly explained that Korean lady golfer ...

But 200 million white Americans can only produce Kevin Love. Josh Levin has an article in Slate about how the American Dream Team had ...

Here's the kind of statistic that nobody else counts: on  NBC's list of 208 American Olympic medal winners, I find five Spanish sur...

Here is Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova praying for a gold medal yesterday. Not surprisingly, God couldn't resist. Chicherova i...

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...