September 20, 2013

Forget it, Juan, it's not the old Chinatown

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A reader writes: You're welcome to post this, but please do so anonymously; this is a throwaway account.  I live in Flushing, Queen...
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Bruce Charlton on tests v. exams

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Bruce Charlton comments on the massive kindergarten admission cheating scandals among the rich and famous of Manhattan and Brooklyn. This ...
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The cartels are out to get you

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When I was young, American opinion was strongly anti-cartel, both abroad (OPEC) and at home. Slowly, though, economists lost interest in th...
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How white looking is Congressional Black Caucus?

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The Honorable Karen Bass (CA-37) The Honorable Joyce Beatty (OH-03) The Honorable Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) The Honorable Corrine...
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September 19, 2013

Private Manhattan kindergartens to replace IQ admissions test with ... something

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As I may have mentioned before, once or even twice, it's amusing that the national media routinely informs us that IQ is "discredi...
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"They said what?"

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From Tennis.com They Said What? The Missing Hispanics THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 /BY PETER BODO TAGS: They Said What?  “Tennis is h...
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Smith

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A friend writes: I keep tabs on Smith because my wife went there. As a high school kid she was so sheltered that she had *no* idea what s...
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September 18, 2013

Smith student in trouble for liking boys

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The latest thought criminal is a young lady at all-female Smith College in Northampton, MA who sent out an email announcing she was startin...
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It can't be that complicated

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From National Review : No Excuse for Amnesty First By  Mark Krikorian September 17, 2013 5:21 PM   One of the reasons the amnesty-fir...
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A better title than "The Selfish Gene?"

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From Janet Maslin's review of Richard Dawkins' new autobiography: With the benefit of hindsight, and with a dearth of other co...
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September 17, 2013

Why First Wave feminism fizzled out

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From my new column in Taki's Magazine : ... Yet this isn’t the first time that the evils of sexism have preoccupied American cultu...
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The Washington shooter, Richard Pryor, and my mother

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From the NYT : Suspect’s Past Fell Just Short of Raising Alarm  ... As an honorably discharged veteran, he cleared a basic hurdle t...
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They don't do vituperation the way they used to

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There are many different theories of what is the underlying essence of humor. A popular one is that what's funny consists of gentle sur...
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September 16, 2013

Simon-Ehrlich wagers for 2013 to 2023

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At Your Lying Eyes, Ziel writes: Predictions - Anyone Wanna Bet?   In the spirit of the famous Simon/Ehrlich bet, here are some predict...
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Paul Graham: Angel investors don't like thick accents

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Back in May , I pointed out that tech startup maven and superb advice essayist Paul Graham had revealed, approvingly, that Silicon Valley ...
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"Emotional intelligence" as IQ Envy

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Social scientists notoriously suffer from "physics envy." This feeling is quite reasonable: physicists can predict many phenomeno...
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The Borrowed Generation

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Nobel economist James Heckman writes in the NYT : What’s missing in the current debate over economic inequality is enough serious discuss...
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September 15, 2013

The Crisis Continues

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The Houston Chronicl e updates us on the latest development in the national uproar over some useful advice that gold-digging adventuress Jul...
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