Steve Sailer: iSteve

From The Telegraph , an interview in which Malcolm Gladwell (promoting his new book) says some reasonable things about himself. Malcolm G...

I'm sure it bores most people, but I can never get enough of New York Times articles about the Wechsler I.Q. tests that the 3,000 most...

From an editorial in the L.A. Times: EDITORIAL  L.A. Unified's iPad plan doesn't compute   The district's failure to reso...

From the Associated Press: EEOC: Austin fire dept. discriminated when hiring AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Fire Department discriminated ag...

We've been reading for decades about how Iran is a massive military threat while Israel is a tiny, existentially vulnerable outpost. Lo...

From the AP via Huffington Post, and it's not anywhere near as dumb as CRitF Parts I through MLXXVI . Unlike almost all the annual Ha...

Tyler Cowen pointed out this book reprinting 73 academics papers on the Philosophy of Race for the low, low price of $1,185. How much of it...

NYT caption: "At the U.S.-Mexico border, which nation is a “land of opportunity?" From the NYT : Ambitious immigrants fro...

Via Marginal Revolution , the story of how Chinese families have taken birth tourism to a new level: don't even bother holing up in Am...

From the Smithsonian: Why is Albert Camus Still a Stranger in His Native Algeria?   On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famed ...

Calatrava's  Puente del Alamillo in Seville Eye-shaped planetarium, Valencia Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has designe...

From the AP: SCHOOLS CRITICIZED FOR BANS ON DREADLOCKS, AFROS   BY LEANNE ITALIE "Why are you so sad?" a TV reporter aske...

Kevin Helliker writes in the Wall Street Journal : Saying I finished in the top 15% of my age group in last month's Chicago Triathlon...

In Taki's Magazine , I'm continuing my intermittent series reinterpreting well-known but not necessarily well-understood episodes i...

From the NYT: ECONOMIC SCENE To Address Gender Gap, Is It Enough to Lean In? By EDUARDO PORTER The gender gap in pay and work force parti...

From The Atlantic: I Quit Teach for America   Five weeks of training was not enough to prepare me for a room of 20 unruly elementary-s...

Mounted Mongol warriors Via Dienekes : War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies   Peter Turchin et al.  PNAS ...

From the Washington Post : ... Most of the extremists who seized the upscale Nairobi mall were young and barked orders in English.  Wit...