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New York City doesn't have a relatively high crime rate since the Giuliani-Bloomberg-Bratton era, but it needs a really low crime rate because its density and mixture of classes and races (the su...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-why-are-men-randomly-punching-women/

My book tour allowed me to finally spend a few days in Austin, Texas for the first time in my life. It was a lot of fun. I was funny at my dinner for three dozen on Thursday. On Friday I was a li...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/austin-tx/

I've been joking for years about how Emma Lazarus has been transmogrified over the years into our one Uncancelable Founding Father: From the New York Times opinion page: Granted, I'm not a Stanfo...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/retconning-the-founding/

In 2017, I wrote in a review of the fine miniseries "The People vs. O.J. Simpson:" I was going to say the O.J. Trial was a formative event for me, but it was more of a confirmatory one. For examp...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-oj-trial/

On November 16, 1968, my dad and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry next to the L.A. Coliseum. When we came out, the football game between #1 USC and #13 Oregon State to determine who w...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/oj-is-dead/

The survey question "is crime up"? and lead to lots of wrong answers, in part because even well informed people aware of trends don't have dates firmly lodged in their heads. The Washington Post ...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/washington-post-average-american-is-5-times-better-informed-about-this-decades-crime-trend-than-post-readers/

From my new column in Taki's Magazine: The Return of Skepticism Steve Sailer April 10, 2024 McKinsey & Company, the famous management consulting firm, has published a number of wildly popular rep...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/mckinseys-diversity-delusion/

From Fox 26 in Houston: By Abigail Dye Published April 7, 2024 8:55pm CDT Man killed during staged robbery, documents state HOUSTON - In January, FOX 26 reported on what police thought was a robb...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/murphys-law-in-multicultural-houston/

From Free Press: Berliner is in the business news section. 2011 shows up on a lot of David Rozado's graphs as the least woke year in the recent media, even better than 2010 and 2009. I suspect th...

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From a Pioneer Works issue that tells you more than everything you could possibly want to know about the impact of Adderall on 21st Century writers: Adderall House Style How to know if a writer i...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/how-to-tell-if-a-writer-is-on-upper-middle-class-meth/

From the review in the Washington Post of right-of-center novelist Lionel Shriver's new book Mania: Shriver's choice to set her novel in an alternative timeline recent past is an interesting one....

https://www.unz.com/isteve/lionel-shrivers-novel-mania/

One of the more disappointing revelations of my life: My cousin was an officer in the Army Reserve. I asked, "What's your specialty?" "Psy-Ops." "What is it?" "Psychological Operations." "That so...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/psy-ops/

In the NCAA basketball final game on Monday, 7'4" 300 lb. Zach Edey of Purdue goes up against 7'-2" 265 pound Donovan Clingan of Connecticut. These are two old-fashioned centers who don't shoot m...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/tall-jock-moms/

From Intelligence:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/is-liberalism-caused-by-genes-for-iq/

From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Couple fights to rid Toronto home of heritage status Original owner Stapleton Pitt Caldecott was opposed to immigration, historian says Michael Smee ·...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/haunted-house/

Jessica Winter in The New Yorker writes about an amusing war in Amherst, MA's public schools that pits ultra-liberal white parents Munchausen Syndroming their children into the transgender faith ...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/amherst-ma/

From Science: Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’ At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research 29 MAR 2024...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-growth-of-science-denialism/

Ben Sixsmith writes in The Critic on my anthology Noticing: Why this new book will pass unnoticed Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pens...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/ben-sixsmith-on-noticing/

I recorded a 2.5 hour podcast with Bronze Age Pervert here. First hour is free for non-subscribers. One highlight of the paywalled last 1.5 hours is me considering BAP's theory that the dominance...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-podcast-with-bronze-age-pervert/

From my new column in Taki's Magazine: That race does not exist is a popular view, but whenever liberals get in power, do they act upon it? If you believed this, you might assume that the current...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/biden-administration-race-doesnt-exist-but/

From People magazine:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/j-k-rowling-volunteers-to-be-arrested-for-violating-scotlands-april-fools-day-law-outlawing-insulting-female-impersonators/

Chicago historian Rick Perlstein snaps a picture of the ominous-looking Obama library under construction and opines, "44 will not age well, I think." That said, a lot of Chicago architecture look...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-plinth-of-ozymandias/

Here's a nature-nurture question I've often wondered about but never quite answered: why, until the late 20th Century, were there so few star baseball players who were the sons of other star base...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-did-their-used-to-be-so-few-nepo-babies-in-big-league-baseball/

From the Washington Post news section: It seems like the big threat to Our Democracy is democratic elections? “There’s been a change

https://www.unz.com/isteve/we-had-to-destroy-the-democracy-to-save-it/

From American Greatness: Steve Sailer: The Hidden Figure of the New Right Noticing will be welcome addition to the libraries of long-time fans and will serve as an introduction for younger reader...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/jeremy-carl-on-noticing/