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Steve
Sailer
Live
not by lies. - Solzhenitsyn
To see what is in front of one's
nose needs a constant
struggle. - Orwell
Knowledge
is good. - Animal
House
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Articles
on Race
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Who
is Steve Sailer? I'm
a reporter,
movie
critic for The American Conservative, VDARE.com columnist, and founder
of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human
Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals.
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The
Pete Wilson Myth
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American Conservative
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5/08/06
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No
myth has become more entrenched in the media than that recent California
political history demonstrates that cracking down on illegal immigration
would be political suicide for Republicans.
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Nicholas
Wade's Before
the Dawn
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VDARE.com
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5/07/06
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Although he's not a scientist, NYT
genetics reporter Nicholas Wade may be the single most invaluable figure
in the human sciences today.
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The
Duke Lacrosse Brouhaha and the Hunt for Tom Wolfe's 'Great White
Defendant'
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VDARE.com
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4/30/06
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"Every assistant D.A. in the Bronx … shared Captain Ahab's mania
for the Great White Defendant. For a start, it was not pleasant to go
through life telling yourself, 'What I do for a living is, I pack blacks
and Latins off to jail.'"
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Richard
Lynn's Race Differences in Intelligence
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VDARE.com
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4/23/06
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A common stratagem, I've found, is to assume that IQ differences matter
only if they are genetic in origin. Since no decent, civilized,
right-thinking person could possibly believe that racial differences in IQ
have any genetic basis, then racial and national differences in average IQ
can't possibly exist. Except — whatever their cause, they do exist and
do matter.
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Undercover
Economist Underperforms on Why Poor Countries Are Poor
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VDARE.com
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3/19/06
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The fundamental problem is that it doesn't really pay in Africa to be a
good ruler.
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"The
Return of Patriarchy"
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VDARE.com
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3/5/06
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Post-modern cultures might well be eventually pushed aside by whichever groups of religious fundamentalists—Mormons, Orthodox Jews, Wahhabi Islamists—best succeed in motivating their followers to have lots of children.
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Winter
Olympics
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VDARE.com
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2/19/06
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"So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s
greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games
look like a GOP convention."–Bryant Gumbel on HBO’s Real
Sports
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Americans
First
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American Conservative
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2/13/06
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In devising immigration policy, the question should be: what’s best for the citizens we already have?
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"It's
the End of the World as We Know It"
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VDARE.com
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1/15/06
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What the DNA researchers are uncovering as they scrape away the blather of
the Goulds and Diamonds is a world we already more or less know, the one
we all live in every day. The human race has its flaws. But the truth
about ourselves is not so horrible that we must be shielded from it by
self-appointed sages who get rich fabricating falsehoods.
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The
Economist on Evolution
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VDARE.com
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1/1/06
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Embarrassingly for The Economist, two days before Christmas came a
landmark paper by Robert Moyzis, Eric Wang, et al. that listed 1,800 genes
that have been under varying selection pressure in Africa, Europe, or East
Asia over no more than the last 50,000 years.
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French
Lessons
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American Conservative
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12/19/05
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The nation that neocons most love to hate has followed their immigration prescriptions—to devastating results.
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Voting
Rights Act should protect all citizens
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VDARE.com
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12/4/05
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Nationwide, 92 percent of all Latino elected officials who ran under a
partisan label are Democrats, in large part because Hispanics are clumped
together in "majority-minority" districts.
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My
"Citizenism" vs. Jared Taylor's "White Nationalism"
- Part 2
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VDARE.com
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11/20/05
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There has been an underlying trajectory to Western history that has
produced an America where citizenism is a lot more likely to appeal than
white nationalism.
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France
in Flames: Immigration, Not “Discrimination,” Is the Problem
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VDARE.com
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11/9/05
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The brutal fact is that the economic failings of France's Muslim and
African immigrants stem in large measure from their low average IQ.
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The
Slow Suicide of the GOP
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VDARE.com
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10/30/05
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You might think that the Bush Administration would promote policies making family formation more affordable for its political base. But the latest government data suggest
it is doing the opposite.
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Does
the NFL Discriminate against Whites?
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VDARE.com
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10/16/05
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For at least the last 2.3 seasons, football teams with more white
second-stringers have won more games. Will anybody pay attention?
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Citizenism
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VDARE.com
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10/8/05
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It has become a journalistic cliché that keeping down working class wages
through illegal immigration is "good for the economy" -- as if
the American economy exists for its own sake as opposed to existing for
the good of American citizens.
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The
Bill Bennett Brouhaha
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VDARE.com
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10/2/05
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All September, ever since the New Orleans Nightmare became evident on
September 1st, the hysteria built among the political and media elite over
which of them would crack first and mention the elephant in the living
room: that blacks have higher average crime rates. Finally, it has burst
forth in a spasm of irrational and self-righteous denunciations of former
Education Secretary William J. Bennett.
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Diversity
Emasculates Free Speech Down Under
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VDARE.com
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9/25/05
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The presence of a few hundred Sudanese refugees in Australia has intimidated two universities into shutting down discussion of the wisdom of importing more sub-Saharan Africans into Australia.
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New
Orleans and "The Color of Crime"
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VDARE.com
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9/18/05
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Personally, I am a citizenist… My starting point in analyzing
policies is: "What is in the best overall interests of the current
citizens of the United States?"
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New
Orleans, Race, and IQ,
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VDARE.com
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9/11/05
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The tragic conundrum is that the young men who could most benefit from serving a hitch in the Army, the decent but not too bright 18-year-olds who are on the knife-edge between getting their act together and falling into a lifetime of drugs and crime, are the ones least likely to
make Armed Forces' cognitive cutoff of having an IQ of 92 or above.
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The
New Orleans Nightmare and Racial Reality
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VDARE.com
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9/3/05
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New Orleans should remind us that we still live in a harsh world. The make-believe that passes for public discourse, even at the elite level, simply isn't adequate for protecting American citizens.
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Charles
Murray's "Inequality Taboo"
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VDARE.com
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8/28/05
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The great thing about truths is that they are causally connected to all
the other truths in the world. If you follow one truth bravely, it will
lead you to another. In contrast, lies, ignorance, and wishful thinking
are dead ends.
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The
Left Doesn't Like Darwin Either
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VDARE.com
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8/7/05
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The good news is that there are no Creationists so dogmatic that they
preach taking only two days worth of penicillin on the grounds that Darwin
must have been wrong.
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Jared
Diamond: The New King of All Media
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VDARE.com
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7/24/05
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I offer a balanced assessment of the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
and Collapse.
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John
Podhoretz vs. Steve Sailer
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VDARE.com
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7/17/05
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While Podhoretz Minor might be an extreme example, he reflects the
intellectual decline of neoconservatism from the heroic first generation
to the second.
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The
Wind from the South: Anti-White Populism
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VDARE.com
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6/26/05
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A mighty storm is brewing in Latin America, and it will eventually reach the U.S.
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Hollywood's
Other Obsession: Blond Bad Guys
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VDARE.com
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6/19/05
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A couple of decades ago, I began noticing that the leading lady in a movie was almost always fairer-skinned than her leading man.
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Peter
Frost's Fair Women, Dark Men
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VDARE.com
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6/12/05
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A couple of decades ago, I began noticing that the leading lady in a movie was almost always fairer-skinned than her leading man.
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"The
Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence" by Cochran and Harpending
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VDARE.com
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6/5/05
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"'It would be hard to overstate how politically incorrect this paper
is,' said Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard, noting that it
argues for an inherited difference in intelligence between groups. Still,
he said, 'it's certainly a thorough and well-argued paper, not one that
can easily be dismissed outright.'"
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Asian
"Natural Republicans" vote heavily Democratic: Any more bright
ideas?
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VDARE.com
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5/22/05
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Why have Asian-Americans deserted the GOP?
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Thomas Sowell's Black
Rednecks and White Liberals
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VDARE.com
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5/15/05
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That Thomas Sowell hasn't yet won the Nobel Prize for Economic Science
reflects more poorly upon the economics profession's infatuation with
mathematical formulas than upon Sowell's lifetime achievement. Personally,
I've learned more from Sowell than from any other living economist.
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Genetic
Engineering: How to Find Out What It Portends
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VDARE.com
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5/1/05
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Before bioengineering fully arrives, we still have time to figure out what we want to do and what we don't.
But how? Answer: By studying honestly the human genetic diversity we see all around us - and learning how it already affects society.
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The
Freakonomics of Race and IQ
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VDARE.com
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4/24/05
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Freakonomics is a valuable book—because Levitt cautiously presses the envelope
of what you are allowed to say in American mainstream discourse about IQ and race.
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Race Does
Exist - New York Times
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VDARE.com
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3/20/05
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An important New York Times' op-ed page essay recently appeared, vindicating the existence of human races.
["A Family Tree in Every
Gene"—Armand Marie Leroi, March 14 2005].
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The White Guy Gap
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VDARE.com
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3/13/05
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From Rove's point of view, this all makes a certain amount of twisted sense. The more insults get piled upon white men by the immigration-driven growth of the diversity industry, the more motivated they are to practice identity politics of their own through the Republican Party.
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How to Get
Rid of White Racist Prison Gangs
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VDARE.com
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2/27/05
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Mapping the
Unmentionable: Race & Crime
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VDARE.com
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2/13/05
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Color maps showing imprisonment rates by state by race.
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Sailer's
One-Point Plan for Lessening Racial Enmity
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VDARE.com
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2/6/05
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1. Don't Let Your Kids Get Beaten Up by
Underclass Minorities.
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Malcolm
Gladwell Blinks at Race
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VDARE.com
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1/30/05
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A demolition of the #1 bestselling book.
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Reflections
on Martin Luther King Day
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VDARE.com
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1/16/05
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Gonzales saved affirmative action in the
2003 University of Michigan cases by gelding the anti-affirmative action
briefs written by Ted Olson—the truly tragic figure in this
Administration.
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Tom Wolfe, I am
Charlotte Simmons, and the
Reality of Human Differences
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VDARE.com
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1/02/05
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What's most striking about Wolfe's version
of Duke U. is how, after 35 years of institutionalized feminism, student
sexuality hasn't progressed into an egalitarian utopia. Instead, it has
regressed to something that a caveman would understand—a Hobbesian
sexual marketplace where muscles are the measure of the man.
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The Baby Gap:
Explaining Red vs. Blue States
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American Conservative
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12/20/04
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Bush carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility (just as he did in 2000), and 25 out of the top
26. In sharp contrast, Kerry won the 16 states at the bottom of the white
fertility list. Background data and graphs, along with reader responses, here.
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Blue States More
Inegalitarian
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VDARE.com
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11/21/04
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Census Bureau figures show that California,
traditionally America's trendsetter, is pioneering a new kind of class
structure—ominously like that of highly unequal Latin American countries
like Brazil or Mexico.
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2004 Election
Wrap-up
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VDARE.com
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11/7/04
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It took four years, but the conventional
wisdom has finally accepted the “Sailer Strategy”—my oft-repeated
argument (which got VDARE.com banned by Free Republic) that the simplest
way for the GOP to win national elections is not outreach to minorities,
but inreach, to its white base.
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"You
have to tell the truth:" The Bell Curve after 10 years
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VDARE.com
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10/10/04
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It’s constantly said in the Establishment
Media that IQ and IQ tests have been "discredited." But the
institution that has studied IQ testing in the greatest detail over the
last 87 years—the U.S. military—remains utterly devoted to the value
of cognitive tests.
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Where Dawkins fears to
tread: ethnic nepotism and the reality of race
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VDARE.com
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10/3/04
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The Iraqis' fierce resistance to foreigners
(us) occupying their country was predictable on any number of grounds. But
perhaps the most interesting is the most fundamental: the theory of
"ethnic nepotism."
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On Dawkins on Race
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VDARE.com
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9/26/04
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So, if a Papuan and a Ugandan look similar
enough to be mistaken for each other by outside observers, are they the
same race?
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Opening the Black
Box of IQ and the Wealth of Nations
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VDARE.com
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8/29/04
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To open up the black box, I've created a table
displaying virtually all the information Lynn and Vanhanen provide on each
IQ study they used—not just the overall national IQ averages you've seen
so far.
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Importing a New
Underclass: More Evidence
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VDARE.com
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8/22/04
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For American-born Hispanic children (not
just second generation, as many might assume, but the second up through
the seventh generation), the school achievement gap, as measured by the
federal NAEP tests, is 67% as large as the notoriously big white-black
difference.
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Flip-Flop on Feminism
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VDARE.com
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7/18/04
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A review of Steven E. Rhoads' Taking Sex
Differences Seriously.
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New
Olympic Human
Biodiversity Preview
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VDARE.com
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7/11/04
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A look at some of the more enduring
patterns in this global pageant of nationalism and human biodiversity.
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Thinking more about
the unthinkable: The white-black IQ gap
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VDARE.com
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7/4/04
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Blogger Tacitus
has been working himself up into a fine lather lately over the
always-fascinating question of Steve Sailer: Evil or Vile?
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Black vs. Black,
but not Black vs. Brown, at Harvard
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VDARE.com
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6/27/04
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“While about 8 percent, or about 530, of
Harvard's undergraduates were black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law
professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard's African
and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of
them — perhaps as many as two-thirds — were West Indian and African
immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial
couples."
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Reporters Denounce
Larry Bird for Being Interesting
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VDARE.com
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6/20/04
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I'm still bemused that modern sportswriters
form lynch mobs whenever sports experts commit the unforgivable sin of not
being boring about race.
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Presumed
Alliance: Black
vs. Brown
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VDARE.com
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6/13/04
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Compton, the spiritual home of West Coast
gangsta rap, is notorious for its corrupt and dysfunctional black-run
government. Still, a lot of people south of the Border have been down so
long that even Compton looks like up to them.
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"Copenhagen
Consensus:" Help the Tired, Poor, and Dispossessed to Stay Home
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VDARE.com
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6/6/04
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Are there more cost-effective methods of
helping Third World countries—and thus reducing emigration—than
invading and occupying them?
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Interesting India,
Competitive China
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VDARE.com
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5/23/04
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A frank comparison of the peoples of the
two giga-countries: India and China.
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The Brown
discussion's two missing letters: IQ
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VDARE.com
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5/16/04
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Writing about IQ, however, is wildly
popular among Democrats … for the sole purpose of asserting mental
superiority over Republicans, as shown by the table headlined "So
Democrats really are smarter," which appeared on hundreds of blogs,
and even was printed in The Economist.
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New
Revolutionary
Nepotism
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The
National Interest
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Winter, 2004
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Nepotism and dynasticism are on the rebound
in politics, both abroad and at home. A major article in the prestigious
quarterly The National Interest.
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A Gypsy is
haunting Europe...
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VDARE.com
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5/2/04
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We're not supposed to think about the
victims of Gypsy criminals because, after all, crime victims are not real
victims -- they are just random human beings, not an organized political
pressure group.
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Frist's
First Priority: Medical Quotas
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VDARE.com
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4/25/04
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Med school quotas are justified on the
grounds that the beneficiaries often end up working in a minority
neighborhood. This is always presented as a heroic sacrifice by the quota
doctor, as if Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills was dying to get him, but he
felt such a strong sense of racial solidarity that he instead chose to
work at a clap clinic in Compton.
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IQ: Truth can
set us (and Africa) free
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VDARE.com
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4/4/04
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The UN reported on 3/25/04: "Few
outside specialist circles are aware of the scale and severity of vitamin
and mineral deficiency, or of what it means for individuals and for
nations. It means the impairment of hundreds of millions of growing minds
and the lowering of national IQs… And it means the large-scale loss of
national energies, intellects, productivity, and growth."
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March
Madness on Campus: Basketball Graduation Rates
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VDARE.com
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3/28/04
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A
kid who inherits a 36" vertical leap and a 72 IQ didn't ask for that
combination. That's just what he was handed in the genetic lottery.
Playing college basketball would probably be the best thing he ever does
in his life. It would be cruel to deny him all opportunity to play.
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The
Claremont Reichstag Fire
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VDARE.com
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3/28/04
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On March 9, Kerri Dunn, a white female
visiting professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna, dramatically
announced at anti-"hate" forum that she had just become the
victim of a hate crime: her car was covered with racist and anti-Semitic
graffiti. Not surprisingly, the police soon announced that Professor Dunn
had vandalized her own car.
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Minority
Outreach a Waste for GOP in 2004
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Insight
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4/13/04
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Q:
Should the GOP undertake more outreach to minorities during campaign
2004?
A:
NO: A better strategy is to increase GOP share of the white majority.
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The "Too
Diverse?" Brouhaha
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VDARE.com
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3/14/04
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There was never socialism in America
because there was never feudalism in America. Contra Marx, the socialist
urge grew not out of capitalism but out of the extreme inequality and
rigidity of the aristocratic system, where the nobility owned almost all
of the land by inheritance.
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Occam's Claw: The
Zorro of Statisticians
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VDARE.com
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3/7/04
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Occam's Razor, the scientific imperative to
prefer the simplest explanation, has few more productive fans than the
elegant and mysterious academic who writes under the pen name La
Griffe du Lion..
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"Stereotype
Threat" (a.k.a. Occam's Butterknife)
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VDARE.com
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2/22/04
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The identical twin brothers Claude M.
Steele and Shelby Steele offer a fascinating living experiment in the
effects of nature and nurture.
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Invade
the World! Invite the World!
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VDARE.com
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1/25/04
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The French have traditionally tried to do
with their immigrants almost exactly what the neocons recommend here:
cultural assimilation, education in civics theories, monolingualism,
meritocracy, separation of church and state, and all the rest. This may
seem ironic, because nobody in Tikrit hates anybody worse than the neocons
hate the French. But that's the way it usually turns out with ideologues:
it's their nature to burn at the stake those heretics who deviate the most
minutely.
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What Is
Bush Thinking?
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VDARE.com
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1/11/04
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Steve Sailer would like to announce that he
has finally lost all patience with George W. Bush.
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Sarich &
Miele: Race: The Reality of Human Differences
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VDARE.com
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1/4/04
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Many intellectuals pride themselves on how
remote their theorizing is from mundane reality. After all, if daily life
could provide evidence about the answers to lofty questions, we might not need so many
intellectuals. And that subversive thought must be suppressed
at all costs!
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Along MLK
Street
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VDARE.com
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12/7/03
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Jonathan Tilove has created a small
coffee-table book called Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black
America's Main Street. The two (white) men visited a sizable fraction
of the 650 streets named after Dr. King—and returned with a valuable
impressionistic portrait of the blackest streets in black America.
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Partition:
Pro and Con
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VDARE.com
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11/30/03
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One measure of how bad the situation has
gotten in Iraq: the foreign policy establishment is beginning to mention
the P-word: Partition. When the setting is favorable for partition,
such as in Canada, the bien-pensants uniformly favor multi-ethnic
polities. They only turn to the nation-state as a last resort, when
conditions are so desperate that partition probably won't work either.
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George F. Will
Denounces Grandma
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VDARE.com
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11/16/03
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In
a confused review of Philip Roth's The Human Stain, George Will
asks "Aside from the visual, what is race?" Fortunately, Roth
understands better: at bottom, race is who your relatives are. And that
makes for the most emotionally powerful scene in the book and movie, when
the main character's mother explains to him the cost to her of his passing
as white: "I'm never going to know my grandchildren."
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The
GOP's Southern Strategy Wins Again
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VDARE.com
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11/9/03
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The
Republican Party's venerable Southern Strategy was publicly tarred and
feathered as racist and obsolete by all the most “Righteous Right”
Beltway “conservatives” back during the Trent Lott brouhaha. But it
remains the electoral strategy that actually, you know, wins elections for
the GOP.
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No Excuses for
Thernstroms' No Excuses
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VDARE.com
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10/26/03
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Our society suffers from the "Yale or
jail" myth. We tell all American kids that if they don't graduate
from college, they are doomed. They too often take that to mean they might
as well start dealing crack right now.
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Rush was right
about black QBs. Here's why.
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VDARE.com
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10/5/03
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White sportswriters immediately dusted off
their pitchforks and torches. Nobody is more hysterical about denying
racial differences than the typical sportswriter—precisely because
racial differences are so blatantly obvious in sports.
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In Praise of In
Praise of Nepotism
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VDARE.com
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9/7/03
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Brother acts are so fashionable in
Hollywood today that somebody should make a movie about a screenwriter who
can't get hired in Hollywood until he makes up a fictional brother for
himself. I'd write the screenplay myself, except I don't have a brother
... Hey, that gives me an idea...
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The Blonde Wars
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VDARE.com
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8/10/03
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As T.S.
Eliot might have said if he had a sunnier disposition, August is the
blondest month. It's late summer, so this will be a light piece on a topic
-- light-colored hair -- that tends to generate more heat than light.
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After 450 Years of
Intermarriage, Brazil Adds Quotas
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VDARE.com
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8/3/03
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Brazil is not a rich country and needs to
get the maximum return on its investment in higher education by finding
the students with the best potential. Of course, because Brazil has had a
color continuum rather than a color line, cheating will probably mitigate
some of the inefficiencies that quotas impose. But this is the last thing
Brazil needs - another incentive toward corruption.
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Dusty
Baker Was Right
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VDARE.com
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7/13/03
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As you can see from the hard time Baker is
being given for saying blacks are better adapted to heat and humidity,
these days we're supposed to celebrate diversity -- but not notice it.
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Cognitive
Dissidence on Quotas
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VDARE.com
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6/29/03
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The essence of statesmanship is heading off
dangers before they become acute. Obviously, we can't rely on the Supreme
Court (average age 69) to protect us from perils that will hit hardest
after they have gone fully senile.
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Bush's
Racial Profiling Guidelines
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VDARE.com
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6/22/03
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The ritual
horror that greets the term "racial profiling" these days is
actually testimony to the impressive progress in controlling crime since
the anarchic early 1990s.
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Race
Flat-Earthers Dangerous To Everyone’s Health
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VDARE.com
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5/11/03
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Some of the "Race Has No Biological
Reality" ideologues are so fanatical that, rather than be proven
wrong about the reality of race, they'd apparently prefer to see members
of their own race die.
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California’s
Racial Privacy Initiative: Sailer vs. Taylor Round II
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VDARE.com
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4/27/03
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We have official statistics documenting to
the decimal place the racial makeup of the freshman class at the
University of Michigan. In contrast, there are no official statistics on
the religious makeup of the University of Michigan freshman class. But
guess what? Without government data on the subject, nobody cares.
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Ward Connerly's
Racial Privacy Initiative
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VDARE.com
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4/13/03
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But
if race is scientifically meaningful, does that argue against the RPI? I
think the opposite is truer. To me, the RPI is appealing precisely because
racial groups are fundamentally an outgrowth of that locus of primal human
emotions, the family. That means race is and always will be a hot potato.
Government should handle it as little as possible. Government should
especially avoid throwing fuel on the potato by designating some groups as
the beneficiaries and others as the victims of affirmative action.
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A
Couple of Wild-Eyed Wackos: Me and the NYT
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VDARE.com
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4/6/03
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While many journalists write about race,
I'm widely considered beyond the pale because I frequently write about it
from a scientific perspective. After all, who else besides me reports on
the genetics of race?
Well, the New York Times is who.
For several years now, the newspaper of
record's distinguished correspondent Nicholas Wade has been making the
case for the biological reality of race.
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Is Love
Colorblind?
Updated
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VDARE.com
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3/16/03
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The latest Census data on the gender gap in
interracial marriage.
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Ethnic Crime
Mobs
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VDARE.com
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3/9/03
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As a movie critic, I see lots of films
featuring one of the more common bits of Hollywood hokum: the
multicultural criminal gang. You know, there's a white guy, a black guy,
an Asian girl, a Sikh, a Lubavitcher, an Amish farmer, a whatever. Do you
remember "The Truth About Charlie", "Femme Fatale",
"Don't Say a Word", "Atlantis", and "What's the
Worst that Could Happen?" You don't? Well, neither did I until I
looked them up. And, heck, I reviewed all of them within the last two
years. When you see a multiracial gang, you can be pretty sure the overall
movie is forgettable.
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The "Midget
or Giant" Paradox
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VDARE.com
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2/23/03
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One day in 1981, I was standing in front of UCLA's
Royce Hall, when I noticed two young men walking toward me across the huge
open quad. "Hey!" I said to myself. "There's something you
don't see very often at UCLA. That tiny fellow talking to the normal-sized
guy is a genuine midget." Then, another young man walked up to the
pair. "Wow! Now there's two midgets with that regular guy," I
thought. "What are the odds of that?"
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The
Blank Slate Theory of African-American Culture
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VDARE.com
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2/16/03
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Almost every author who writes about social issues
involving African-Americans appears to know nothing -- and doesn't seem to
want to learn anything -- about Africans. In contrast, a musicologist writing on the background
of American popular music who willfully ignored African influences would
be laughed at, and rightfully so.
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End
of History or End of Posterity?
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VDARE.com
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2/9/03
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Here
in Southern California, though, judging by the weddings I've attended
recently, it's becoming more common for middle class men to delay getting
married until they are approaching 40. Marriage out here is increasingly
reverting to what it was in Jane Austen's novels: a luxury that many
cannot currently -- and some may never -- afford.
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Will
America Retain a "Market Dominant Majority?"
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VDARE.com
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2/2/03
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Amy
Chua's readable and eye-opening new book "World on Fire: How
Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global
Instability" documents just how pervasive ethnic inequality is around
the world—and how much that drives the traumas we read about every day.
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The
Army's Race Relations Secret Weapon
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VDARE.com
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1/26/03
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It
would be wonderful if society's racial gaps could be made to disappear
with just a little military discipline. But the Army has a secret weapon:
it carefully selects which
applicants it accepts. Black and white recruits are quite equal even
before they join up.
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Bush's
Bakke II Brief: It's Déjà vu All Over Again
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VDARE.com
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1/16/03
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Many
on the Naïve Right are exulting over the first paragraphs in President
Bush's remarks on Wednesday siding against the University of Michigan for
using a racial quota admissions system. But (ahem!) didn't the Supreme
Court already outlaw "quotas" 25 years ago in the Bakke
decision? Fat lot of good that did. And fat lot of good the
Administration's "very narrowly tailored" brief to the Supreme
Court will do either.
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Unmentionable
Root of Quotas
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VDARE.com
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1/12/03
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Here on the Realist Right, we've frequently
argued that the long-run unity of the U.S. is threatened by the Doomsday
Machine interaction of racial preferences with the mass immigration of
those eligible for them—the “protected classes,” basically
non-whites. This combination of immigration and government discrimination
on behalf of favored groups is exactly what made Kosovo a disaster..
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Diversicrats
on Collision Course with Court - and Reality
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VDARE.com
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12/8/02
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The Supreme Court has announced it's going
to rule on the constitutionality of the University of Michigan's racial
preference system. A few observations ...
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"A
King Among Men: Arthur Jensen"
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VDARE.com
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12/1/02
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In an era of 900 page biographies, Frank
Miele's short new book on IQ scientist Arthur Jensen has a highly readable
format: it consists mostly of Q&A sessions.
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Pinker's
Progress
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VDARE.com
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11/24/02
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While Steve Pinker's The Blank Slate
leaves me plenty of room to write a book on race, his handling of the
topic has greatly improved over the years.
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Diversity vs. Freedom:
The Truth-Telling Teacher Wins
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VDARE.com
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11/3/02
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Thanks
to a public outcry
in which my previous article played a small role, Pasadena science teacher
Scott Phelps, who had been suspended for pointing
out that black students tended to behave worse in class and score
worse on tests than other students—has been reinstated.
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The Truth-Telling
Teacher
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VDARE.com
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10/27/02
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You seldom
find Caltech grads teaching at tough urban high schools. But for twelve
years, Scott Phelps has fought the good fight at Muir High in Pasadena,
California. "He is one of the few teachers I believe went to school
every day for something other than a paycheck," said Aundre Mathews,
a recent graduate who took science from Phelps. Today,
though, Scott Phelps is suspended and in danger of losing his job. His
crime ...
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Racial
Correctness: Sculptress Malvina Hoffman
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VDARE.com
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10/20/02
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Despite
all the talk about celebrating diversity, nobody these days is supposed to
notice diversity. There is almost no way for the public to look up in a
modern reference work what people of various geographic origins look like.
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On
Interracial Marriage
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VDARE.com
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9/17/02
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My
bottom line view on marriage: you ought to marry the person you love. The
alternatives—marrying a person you don't love or not marrying at all -
are worse.
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The “Whiteness
Studies” Status Game
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VDARE.com
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9/9/02
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It's easy to confuse the Whiteness Studies of Noel
Ignatiev (of "Abolish the White Race" fame) with the
Euro-American Studies that David Duke is championing. Euro-American
Studies is about how white people did everything good in the world.
Whiteness Studies is about how they did everything bad. (Busy little
beavers, these white folks must be.)
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Q&A:
Pygmy Negritos of Andaman Islands
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UPI
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9/9/02
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"Since Sept. 11, there has
been much chest-thumping among American professional pundits -- and even
more so among the countless amateur "bloggers" who have sprung
up on the Web since the terrorist attacks -- over the superiority of all
things American compared to anything European."
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COMMENTARY:
How tolerant are the British?
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UPI
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8/20/02
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"Since Sept. 11, there has
been much chest-thumping among American professional pundits -- and even
more so among the countless amateur "bloggers" who have sprung
up on the Web since the terrorist attacks -- over the superiority of all
things American compared to anything European."
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It's
All Relative: Putting Race in Its Proper Perspective
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VDARE.com
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8/02/02
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"Does
race exist?" Years of debate over this question haven't accomplished
much because neither side possesses a useful definition of
"race." So, here is my General Theory of Race. This is probably
my single most important contribution.
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Mapping
Human History
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VDARE.com
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6/28/02
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Olson stops
every few pages to tell you that there are no races that have been
absolutely isolated genetically since the beginning of time because—you
will be shocked, shocked to learn this—humans have been known to
outbreed. This makes Mapping Human History resemble a geology book
that repeatedly admonishes the reader that the Earth is not flat.
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Ward Connerly's Racial
Privacy Initiative
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VDARE.com
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6/20/02
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As a statistics
geek, I'd love to be able to download all the Census data sorted by
religion. But as an American, I'm glad I can't. There are some huge
disparities among the followers of the various religions in America, but
we think about these differences much less than we think about differences
among categories about which the government collects statistics. And
that's good for American unity.
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Thoughts on IQ
and the Wealth of Nations
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VDARE.com
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4/14/02
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The
strong correlation between IQ and the wealth of nations demonstrated by
Lynn & Vanhanen is of world-historical importance. From now on, no
public intellectual can seriously claim to be trying to understand how the
world works unless he takes IQ into account.
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Diversity
vs. Efficiency: An Olympic Case Study
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VDARE.com
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3/20/02
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Why
were the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah a triumph of efficiency in staging,
while the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics were plagued by organizational
snafus?
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Jonah Whales
on VDARE
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VDARE.com
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3/1/02
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 Jonah
Goldberg, editor of NR Online, funnyman, and self-anointed Pope of
Conservatism, tried to excommunicate VDARE.com last Sunday for publishing
serious articles about race and genetics. In response, I review Jonah's
strengths and weaknesses and challenge him to a debate.
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