Steve Sailer: iSteve

Awhile ago I noted that stand-up comedy is in pretty good shape right now, even though it lacks dominant superstars. In fact, that's pr...

From the NYT : U.S. and Israel Said to Be Near Agreement on Release of Spy   By JODI RUDOREN  APRIL 1, 2014  JERUSALEM — Officials in...

In Politico , veteran political trickster Jamie Kirchick expands upon my reader's theory that Right Sector in Kiev is a Russian false...

With high school students currently receiving thick and, mostly, thin letters from the colleges to which they applied last year, let me quo...

I recently mused about the Chinese army's tendency to see itself less as the pointy end of the spear and more in terms of: "It...

Oakland, California, across the Bay from San Francisco, has long led America toward its racially diverse future, with at least four major e...

I'm not a stickler about proper usage of the English language (mote, log, own eye, etc.), but still, the decline of the word "disi...

At Human Varieties , Jason Malloy delivers a massive meta-analysis of Puerto Rican IQ , summarizing more than 70 studies over the last 93 y...

Evil-White-Men-in-Training plot against humanity From The National Journal ( a.k.a., The Voice of Respectability): Tech Pipeline Is ...

From a report by the liberal fundamentalist UCLA Civil Rights Project: New York State’s Extreme School Segregation: Inequality, Inaction ...

It's not even April yet, but the 2014 Crops Rotting in the Fields public relations offensive is in motion. From the New York Times : ...

In the New York Times , Stephen Sestanovich of the Council of Foreign Relations, argues : No one wants to revive the Cold War. But it off...

In recent years, the government of China has been announcing large increases in military spending (although they usually don't wind up ...

Recently I received an email from a reporter asking if I had a new email address for a certain person on my blogroll. I replied that I do...

From the Orlando Sentinel: Bright Futures scholarships are subject of federal investigation Denise-Marie Ordway, Sentinel School Zone  ...

fivethirtyeight.com How's the much hyped new quant website run by Nate Silver , the former NYT election data guru, doing at the clos...

Henry Harpending and Gregory Cochran have a rough draft of a new paper: "Assortative Mating, Class, and Caste:" The Amish marry...

Here's an old WSJ article: FTC Investigates Oil Firms Over Hiring, Wages By THOMAS CATAN  Updated April 26, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET  ...