From Cambridge University Press, Understanding Race by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall: The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superfic...
From The Economic Journal: Baseball teams seem to get along okay without the players liking each other much, although I can't think of how to test this question with data. To cite my go-to exampl...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/all-male-teams-can-succeed-without-the-teammates-liking-each-other/
iSteve commenter Irish Paleo writes: A concept I’ve tried (with little success) to popularise is that of blacks as Schrödinger's race – i.e. blacks, uniquely among human populations, are per...
Back in August 2020, the mighty American Israel Political Action Committee was out to get Democratic Congresswoman and Squad member Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) for mentioning that Jews donate a lot ...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/ilhan-omar-escapes-with-a-narrow-victory/
Earlier today, I posted an op-ed written by a Boston city planner and climate change activist who advocates for bicycles to reduce climate emissions. She takes a trip to her bicycle mecca, Amster...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/payoffs-to-community-organizers-double-the-price-of-a-d-c-bridge/
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Early data shows monkeypox disproportionately affecting Black men By Helena Oliviero, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 12 hours ago Monkeypox in Georgia is ...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/monkeypox-has-become-a-predominantly-black-disease-in-atlanta/
Rosita is a Sesame Street character from Mexico, a monster who speaks Spanish and English, but who is being canceled in the latest national moral panic over racism. From Muppet Fandom: But the Co...
From StreetsBlog, which pushes for mass transit and bike routes: This does not appear to be a parody: the author made some of the same points in her Twitter feed. Amsterdam, perhaps with Copenhag...
Back in 2018, I pointed out that you could get some sense of the news media's changing and unchanging obsessions by graphing over the decades how often the New York Times uses Narrative-Affirming...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/who-drove-the-great-awokening-the-news-media-or-academia/
Actor James Franco is being denounced for playing Fidel Castro while white. But would Franco's Portuguese grandpa qualify Franco for affirmative action under existing U.S. rules and regulations? ...
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
From August 7 in the New York Times news section, a heavily splashed article: Killings of 4 Men in Albuquerque Leave Muslim Community in Fear As the authorities appeal to the public for help in t...
There's a cult of intelligent, well-intentioned people started by Eliezer Yudkowsky who call themselves "rationalists." Their most prominent recruit is the estimable Scott Alexander. One of the t...
From Samstack: Autism and Forecasting Sam Atis Jul 4 Note: If you haven’t heard of forecasting, I would recommend at least skimming the Superforecaster Wikipedia page to get a brief overview of...
What do you think? Personally, I can't remember noting any differences in drawing ability between boys and girls at my coed elementary school. All I can remember is that I was pretty bad at drawi...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/are-men-or-women-better-at-drawing/
The climate change beat seems like a good gig in that if there isn't a heat wave or a cold wave or a tornado or whatever happening today for you to write about, you can just thumb through the res...
I've been reading some more literary critics extoll Mohsin Hamid's new novel The Last White Man about a world in which white people wake up in the morning with dark skin, which eventually leads t...
From the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters: VIEWPOINT The Peril of Politicizing Science Anna I. Krylov* Cite this: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 22, 5371–5376 Publication Date:June 10, 202...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-peril-of-politicizing-science/
From the Washington Post book review section about a novel called The Last White Man by McKinsey consultant turned novelist Mohsin Hamid, who is based in England. What if White people woke up wit...
Deaton and Case coined the term Deaths of Despair in 2015 for the depressing ways working class whites were dying in the 21st Century: overdoses, suicides, and cirrhosis. Since the "racial reckon...
From Wikipedia: Women-are-wonderful effect The women-are-wonderful effect is the phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive att...
It seems like reading iSteve daily would help you ace the Knowledge About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging section: What's going to be the fifth word added now that Belonging has, appa...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/heres-the-cheat-sheet-for-how-to-get-hired-by-uc-berkeley/
From Variety: Much like James Franco, John Leguizamo has been in a huge number of movies, most of them not very memorable. Perhaps his best movie was Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge, in which he playe...
From Hawk Central: The Big Ten, centered on the Great Lakes Region, is the number two college football conference after the South Eastern Conference (SEC). It's so elite that the Big Ten is going...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/in-2023-will-riley-moss-be-the-nfls-first-white-cornerback-in-20-years/
The RAND Corporation started out to do nuclear war strategy, with famous eggheads like John von Neumann and John Nash hanging out by the beach in Santa Monica talking first strikes and the like. ...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/dr-strangelove-explains-white-supremacy/
From the Washington Post news section: As monkeypox strikes gay men, officials debate warnings to limit partners Sex is a major driver of the global outbreak. But health officials and longtime HI...
Master strategist Vladimir Putin is well on his way to de-Finlandizing ... Finland. Finnish neutrality from 1946-2022 was a major foreign policy triumph for the Soviet Union and later Russia in t...
From The Guardian: It's as if there might be some kind of a pattern. ‘Many people – even many queer people – have internalized the idea that contracting STIs is bad, shameful, and should be...
iSteve commenter Sgt. Joe Friday notes: That reminds me of the marketing strategy class I took at UCLA's Graduate School of Management in 1981 in which we competed as small teams in a computerize...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-paradox-of-mexican-facility-in-english-and-migration/
I'm off to get my second eye operated on today for a cataract (replacement of my clouding-over natural lens with an artificial one). The first operation at the end of June was a big success -- I ...
Blake Masters, Peter Thiel's associate, appears to have a solid lead in Arizona, winning everywhere except the upscale suburb of Scottsdale. I don't follow politics that closely, but it would see...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/blake-masters-ahead-in-arizona-primary/
Boston Celtics center Bill Russell, the winningest player in the history of American pro team sports with eleven NBA championships through 1969, has died at age 88. Russell will always be compare...
From a Los Angeles Times opinion columnist (and former Unz Review contributor) who is really peeved at the very thought of the Who and Whom occasionally getting reversed in Mexico-America migrati...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/l-a-times-columnist-white-americans-working-from-home-in-mex/
Vin Scully, the radio announcer for Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games for 67 seasons from 1950-2016, has died at age 94. Scully was also a great television announcer who knew when t...
From Matt Goodwin's Substack:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-great-awokening-is-as-just-as-feverish-in-the-uk-as-the-us/
In his struggle to figure out how America works, Harvard economist Raj Chetty has crunched billions more bits of data, this time from Facebook regarding who friends whom, and created yet another ...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/chetty-charles-murray-was-right-in-coming-apart/
The Harvard professor who is amazing at the getting big institutions give him confidential information is confident that the reason there's more social mobility in Winsted, MN has nothing to do w...
Interestingly, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are thought to be only two of the eight epics of the Trojan War, with the Iliad as the second and the Odyssey as the seventh. The six lost epics are attri...
I think my 1998 Infiniti I-30 with around 275,000 miles is about through. So, what should I get to replace it?
In Karl Marx's funniest book, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, he famously observes regarding the careers of Napoleon I and Napoleon III: A friend remarks, "All great, world-historical...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-first-time-as-aids-the-second-as-monkeypox/
From the blog The Splintered Mind: reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed: Dennett is a famous American philosopher who has published numerous books over the last 40 years, so...
In perhaps the most impressive Russian feat of arms in the current war, in the first week the Russian Army invading from Crimea got across the mighty Dnieper River and captured the south-central ...
It's a good thing we tore out the wall-to-wall carpeting last year because the slippery old hardwood floor underneath is the only thing that keeps my new dog, a long-legged and heavily muscled mu...
From the New York Times news section: The reasons this conspiracy theory are specious are . And, anyway, it's a conspiracy theory. When everybody knows that Democrats are instead trying to encour...
From the New York Times news section, another example of how NYT articles get more interesting the deeper you read down into them: Which shadowy, unnamed groups is this Russian agent funding? The...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/russian-charged-with-spreading-propaganda-in-the-u-s/
Bloomberg has a big feature about how the media is making people worry about crime in New York City: Similarly, as Chris Hayes would agree, why is inflation coverage up 90% when prices are up onl...
This might be Will "Lia" Thomas's sporting future: He steps out into the ring at a WWE professional wrestling bout in form-fitting tights and announces he's a woman and can beat up any woman in t...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/will-lia-thomass-future-career-wwe-heel/
Big news: a major defeat for the poison-mutilate-sterilize brigades in Britain. From the Daily Mail: This is following the lead of the Swedish and Finnish authorities who figured out that the hug...
From the Los Angeles Times: Mexicans are good at not being self-destructive due to ideology. Their self-destructiveness tends to have more based motivations. 1.2 million foreigners arriving at a ...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/l-a-times-californians-are-gentrifying-mexico-city/
From "Monkeypox Outbreak: Updates on the Epidemiology, Testing, Treatment, and Vaccination", Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Call, Tuesday, July 26, 2022 What about race? I w...
From Amish Population Profile, 2022: Growth Trends, 2000-2022. The North American Amish population grew by an estimated 195,710 since 2000, increasing from approximately 177,910 in 2000 to 373,62...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-amish-have-grown-110-since-2000/
Many sectors of the Soviet economy tended to grow pretty robustly in the 1960s, but then in the 1970s things started to go wrong, often for obscure reasons, and by the 1980s clearly something was...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/have-we-entered-a-brezhnevite-malaise/
From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/who-is-more-into-conspiracy-theories-the-right-or-the-left/
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is taking action about monkeypox. Is it shutting down gay circuit parties? Of course not. Instead, it has written a letter to the World H...
San Diego is increasingly utopian, but of course rent there has become absurdly expensive. So, here's a trend article in the New York Times news section on Americans gentrifying Tijuana right ove...
DALL-E is the usually impressive artificial intelligence-drive image generator where you type in a prompt and it returns a number of pictures, usually extraordinarily on target. But not when y...
Veteran literary novelist Joyce Carol Oates remarks on the bias against young white male authors in today's publishing industry. She immediately gets ratioed by hundreds of angry replies telling ...
Sebastian Köhn (He/Him), George Soros Open Society Foundations Division Director in sexual health, recounts in The Guardian: And then a whole bunch of Sorrows of Job happened to this 39 year old...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has tended to outrage white countries like Poland and white-adjacent countries like Japan, while cheering anti-white countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Angola, China, an...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/japans-ministry-of-defense-wars-of-conquest-are-no-longer-allowed/
From the Washington Post news section: Shouldn't Canadians be apologizing to the Pope for all the church-burnings last year during Canada's 2021 BLM-style national nervous breakdown over supposed...
In an age in which women have enough power and influence to punish criticism, it's important to engage in critical analysis of women. As I've often said, painful as it is, criticism tends to make...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-why-it-matters-that-j-lo-is-now-j-aff/
Canadian "land acknowledgments" in which all public events and statements must begin with a ritual obeisance to some local Indian tribe that had most likely recently conquered some other Indian t...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/land-acknowledgments-are-anti-marxist/
They promised us flying police cars and renegade replicants, but instead we got crutch fights. (I think this is the Toy Town district of downtown Los Angeles.)
From the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/putin-takes-the-lead-in-the-global-struggle-against-white-supremacy/
"Black people are 13 percent of America’s population but make up 62 percent of gun homicide victims." -- Kamala Harris, this week. Kamala's 13/62 meme sounds about right for firearm homicide vi...
On Twitter, a mother writes: We used to have millions of tomboys. E.g., it's pretty common in classic American children's novels by women for the author stand-in to be a tomboy, such as Jo in Lit...
From a New York Times op-ed about Italian politics: Personally, I don't think "eye-wateringly" is a real word. What does it mean? Italy's high public debt makes you cry? (Not me.) It's high publi...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-is-everything-eye-watering-lately/
The famous Marshmallow Test was invented by Walter Mischel in Trinidad in the 1950s to answer his question of why the local Asian Indians tended to have more money than the local blacks: it turne...
I finally finished reading the 1848 novel Vanity Fair. A few comments: It's extremely enjoyable. Despite a fairly rambling plot covering almost 800 pages from roughly 1813 to 1828, it's a page-tu...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/vanity-fair-by-william-makepeace-thackeray/
Similarly, much of the popularity of the US Women's National soccer team derives from it being so white and middle class. Boys of all races and classes tend to care about sports. But it takes a l...
From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Monkeypox: The New AIDS Steve Sailer July 20, 2022 You have to admit, the word “monkeypox” is fun to say: monkeypox, monkeypox, monkeypox. On the other ...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/sailer-in-takimag-monkeypox-the-new-aids/
From Variety: Okay, here's my pitch: we rip our next Law & Order story episode the headlines about the Law & Order story. Except, the victim was Hispanic. Boring. He's got to be black and the mur...
From the New York Times news section, a pretty vacant story: A rather heavyweight reporting team for a really nothingburger story. July 18, 2022, 6:51 p.m. ET The C.I.A. director, William J. Burn...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/cia-convulsed-by-possibly-fake-noose/
As part of the Not So Great Reset of lowering standards in the 2020s, the State Department is going to make it easier for the racially privileged to be hired as foreign service officers. One of t...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-not-so-great-reset-comes-for-the-foreign-service-officers-test/
There are two main types of anthropologists: Cultural and Physical. Cultural anthropologists tend to be extremely woke (although there are examples of cultural anthropologists like Fox and Tiger ...
From the Washington Post: The Baltimore Orioles made high school shortstop Jackson Holliday the first pick of the MLB draft Sunday, adding a high-upside infielder and the son of a major leaguer t...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/dynasticism-growing-in-the-major-league-baseball/
The largest bulk of what lawyers do is write contracts, which are like computer programs written in modern English with much key vocabulary taken from medieval Anglo-French words. Hence, lawyers,...
I'm reading William Makepeace Thackeray's 1840s pageturner "Vanity Fair." Thackeray likes on the nose anglo-saxon surnames, such as that Becky Sharp is really sharp. Liz Truss sounds like she'd h...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/thackerays-favorite-tory-pm-liz-truss-vs-penelope-mordaunt/
Now you can see why the Australian Army had to choose violence in the Great Emu War of 1932.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/emmanuel-dont-choose-violence-today/
I'm sincere when I say that VP Kamala Harris appears to be just about the most loyal Greek ever. My repeated impression is that her sorority means more to her than anything else. I'm guessing tha...
From NBC News: And that probably doesn't yet include much of the upcoming effect of the Russia-Ukraine war on attitudes toward enlistment, but a 21st Century land war in Europe doesn't look fun a...
From the Washington Post news section: The never-ending quest to predict crime using AI The practice has a long history of skewing police toward communities of color. But that hasn’t stopped re...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-racist-robots-are-at-it-again/
High-ranking Biden Administration officials represented the United States of America at the French Ambassador's Bastille Day reception: Unlike Trans-Pennywise here, who at least wants you to noti...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-further-adventures-of-admiral-levine/
The top woman chess player in the world is Yifan Hou. She is the third woman of all time to rank in the world top 100, after Maia Chiburdanidze and the great Judit Polgar. But Hou recently droppe...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-last-woman-falls-out-of-the-chess-top-100/
In early 1992, Texas businessman Ross Perot entered the presidential race as an independent and soon began polling very well on a platform of deficit reduction and anti-North American Free Trade ...
From my new book review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there. iSteve commenter Daniel H reminds me of the perfect William F. Buckley anecdote that I should have used in my review:
Here we are almost 18 months after January 6, with lots of rioters still being sweated in jail, and we are still being promised that Real Soon Now the secret conspiracy will finally be cracked an...
From the UN's World Population Prospects 2022: If true, that 16.5 million net outflow from Pakistan over the last dozen years is a huge number. (But the Wikipedia article on Overseas Pakistanis c...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/pakistan-exporter-of-people-to-the-world/
From the Guardian:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/52-of-young-africans-want-to-emigrate/
From the New York Times news section: Well, they would s
https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-biden-is-not-too-old-now-but-next-term/
From iSteve commenter Allain: Slightly OT: New York Times 2060: Successful “Genetic Moonshot” Poised to Reap Its Reward. The multi-billion-dollar effort to clone Emmett Till, an emblematic in...
The more we are lectured that race is just a social construct with no scientific reality, the more we are also supposed to be intimately aware of all the details of racial differences in hair bio...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/race-does-not-exist-except-when-it-comes-to-black-womens-hair/
Personally, my own sense of taste and smell is like that of a child whose most sophisticated opinion is that while McDonalds fries taste better than Burger King fries, Burger King burgers taste b...
From CBS News: iSteve commenter Altai writes:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/pride-month-spread-not-just-monkeypox-but-also-meningitis/
Team Soros has come up with brilliant plan for reducing racial inequities in how many blacks go to jail for crimes: prosecutorial ineptitude. As Jane Austen would have said if she lived in Phila...
From the New York Times news section: Review Finds Agents Used Unnecessary Force Against Black Migrants Four Border Patrol agents face discipline over the confrontation last year. But the 500-pag...
The United Nations' Population Division has posted its World Population Prospects 2022, the first in three years. So I created the latest version of my World's Most Important Graph comparing sub-...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/2022-worlds-most-important-graph/
From the New York Times news section: We can shut down the schools for a year or two, but we couldn't possibly cancel Pride Month and its attendant orgies. Pride Month orgies are too sacred. On t...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/pride-goeth-before-a-fall-full-of-monkeypox/
From the Washington Post news section: Perhaps this can help explain: Ukrainian woman: Syrian man: “The first sign of the war in Ukraine was (Belarus President) Alexander Lukashenko’s attack ...
I doubt if American police forces in 1965 were staffed by Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Columbo, and Nancy Drew. But the graph is probably fairly accurate for the last few decades, with the rise o...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/barely-half-of-murders-are-now-being-solved/