Steve Sailer: iSteve

In recent years, as the logical objection "Correlation does not prove causation!" has spread to the lower depths of the Internet,...

I've been running quarterly fundraisers for the last year, and they've been an encouraging success. My readers have been quite gene...

Here's an NYT article about a lady designer in the brand new country of South Sudan who is pitching fashion as something that might giv...

Noël Wells From the Washington Post : As ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast reboots, questions about diversity emerge   By Paul Farhi, Publ...

It's not exactly a new discovery that reading good literature tends to improve perceptions, intuitions, and empathy, but it's fun t...

Try to guess which county (or which city or which state) this is: Blacks are 5.5 times more likely than whites to be unemployed in YYY Co...

One more thought on Prince Bandar bin Sultan , now back in business as the Saudi spymaster trying to overthrow the Syrian government (and, ...

From Marginal Revolution : Does increasing inequality weaken the case for additional low-skilled immigration?   by Tyler Cowen   In g...

The Pew Center has published a long report, A Portrait of Jewish Americans , on the first major survey of Jews in America in a long time...

The Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983-2005 was Prince Bandar . Because he is the son of a part black slave girl, he's ine...

From the scientific journal Nature : Ethics: Taboo genetics   Probing the biological basis of certain traits ignites controversy. But s...

From Wired : Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System, Denies Plans to Use It   BY BRANDON KEIM10.02.1312:08 PM As...

From the NYT: A Master of Crime Fiction in a Nation Lacking Them   Jakob Arjouni’s Last Novel, Now in English  By WILLIAM GRIMES ....

The Hunt for Red October  was a galvanizing book to read in 1985. I expected at the time that it would be even better in movie form, becaus...

The ongoing billion dollar iPad fiasco in Los Angeles public schools ought to be a good moment to reflect upon why public schools tend to s...

From the New York Times: Mexico’s New Arrivals Mix Praise and Criticism  By DAMIEN CAVE  MEXICO CITY — Can Mexico ever ascend to its ...

For a long time, I've been pointing out that many standard statistics of income, poverty, or cost of living fail to fully get at the und...

As commenters noted, last week's announcement that the Justice Department was suing the Fire Department of Austin, TX for racial/ethni...