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Category Archives: HBD
Jason Richwine in Politico
Embattled public policy analyst Jason Richwine has an opinion column in Politico today (“Why can’t we talk about IQ?“): For people who have studied mental ability, what’s truly frustrating is the déjà vu they feel each time a media firestorm … Continue reading
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Archaeology: The Milk Revolution
In Nature is a fascinating article titled “Archaeology: The Milk Revolution“, about how a single genetic mutation (for lactose tolerance) among Northern Europeans radically changed the course of Europe’s development. More current genetics research is showing that genetic variation can … Continue reading
Can You Distill Feelings About Reality Into Six Words or Less?
From a PBS Newhour segment on “Can You Distill Feelings About Race and Identity Into Six Words or Less?” JEFFREY BROWN: So give us a few examples of the kind of thing you have been hearing. MICHELE NORRIS: “Urban living … Continue reading
Sardinians
An excerpt from the new book My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, edited by Peter Biskind: Welles: I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that … Continue reading
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Jayman: HBD Blogging And What Lies Ahead
Jayman’s latest is a must-read: “100 Blog Posts – A Reflection on HBD Blogging And What Lies Ahead“. It’s an excellent overview of the HBD-blogging horizon. There’s posts, and then there’s… posts.
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Are Jews Smarter?
Back in 2005, in a lengthy article for NY Magazine entitled “Are Jews Smarter?“, Jennifer Senior writes about the emerging science of population genetics, particularly recent research and theorizing regarding the disproportionality to which Jews have higher IQs and exhibit … Continue reading
Jason Richwine & The Future of Conservatism Inc.
James Kirkpatrick has an excellent column, the best I’ve yet read, on the Richwine lynching’s implications for the future of conservatism.
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Richwine Redux
John Derbyshire, who has firsthand experience of such things, has an excellent column on the Jason Richwine witch hunt. Sailer (does the guy ever sleep?) has tons of incomparably good stuff on the subject as well. The Richwine episode is … Continue reading
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Richwine Resigns
Race realism’s latest sacrificial lamb: The Heritage Foundation announced the resignation Friday of senior policy analyst Jason Richwine, co-author of a controversial report critical of the Senate’s immigration reform bill. After Heritage issued the report this week, news articles pointed … Continue reading
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Neurocriminology
Writing in the WSJ, Adrian Raine, Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the burgeoning field of neurocriminology (an extension of the growing and insurmountable HBD body of evidence.) Given the Dracula-like resilience of the … Continue reading