Steve Sailer: iSteve

The Kennedy Center Honors are an annual orgy of self-congratulation aimed at the PBS pledge drive demographic. This year's award winner...

The New York Times has been running a long self-congratulatory series of essays, tied to the upcoming 100th anniversary of Stravinsky's...

It's widely believed there is no mass transit in Los Angeles, at least not since G.M. conspired with Judge Doom to junk all the belove...

In the comments, wren writes: I am coming around to the conspiracy theory that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula [supposed producer of supposed ...

Roger Clegg writes at National Review : Earlier this year, the Supreme Court was poised to hear oral arguments in the fully briefed Mag...

From the New York Times' breaking news section: California Man Linked to Anti-Islam Film Ordered Held Without Bond     5 minute...

Back in 2007, the Bush Administration sued the Fire Department of New York, which lost 343 men on 9/11, for disparate impact discriminating...

From the Washington Post: Medicare working to boost Obama in swing states, poll finds   By N.C. Aizenman, Jon Cohen and Peyton M. Cr...

A central theme of the Scottish Enlightenment, as exemplified in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations , is that some positive outcomes ca...

The biennial Ryder Cup between teams consisting of the dozen top golf pros of the U.S. v. Europe is being held Friday-Sunday at Medinah, ...

The Manhattan Institute has a new report out with lots of statistics on population shifts in and out of California over the last 50 years....

At  The Passing Parade , David, an acerbic commenter on the Scots-Irish culture of his home state of Tennessee, offers an unusual perspecti...

In my Taki's Magazine column , I explain how to use Google's auto-completion prompts to quantify the Undernews -- the stuff a lot o...

Frank Bruni, the NYT's newish all-gay-all-the-time op-ed columnist,  tugs at the heart strings : THE way Kevin McClatchy figured it...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, traditionally the highest paid orchestra in America (current minimum salary $144,000), has gone out on stri...

The econosphere has been abuzz for several years with NYU professor Paul Romer's plan to bring the benefit of Good Institutions to Cent...

John Carney at CNBC has been doing yeoman's work on the annual crops-rotting-in-the-fields scam: If farms were truly struggling to ...

It's nice to be a native speaker of the world's dominant language, especially since I've never bothered to learn any other lang...