Richard Lynn memorial site
Were you curious about the actual works by the much maligned Richard Lynn? Fear not, we have a new memorial site up with most of his works accessible. https://richardlynn.net/ This…
When did NW Europeans become WEIRD? Not from lack of inbreeding
Joseph Henrich published two books based on the Hajnal line or WEIRD (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) personality cluster idea (The Secret of Our Success 2016; The WEIRDest People in…
Elon’s meme magic
There is a 1949 science fiction novel (Project Mars: A Technical Tale) about how to build a Mars colony, and it includes this part: Amazing, it was written by none…
Give women what they want: more babies
Central to the decline of the West and now almost all high income countries is that they have too low fertility. Just a reminder from the prior post: Why the…
The anti-boomer story
The anti-boomer story goes like this: There was upon a time a happy, functional western civilization. Then came one generation who voted for a lot of welfare increases. The same…
Language and clusters
The recent Trump executive order on sex and gender spurred some debate about the intricacies of biology of sex. Here's the relevant part: Sec. 2. Policy and Definitions. It is…
On genocide and the worst modern ideology
Some time ago I read Bradley Campbell's The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology. Like his other books, it's short, to the point, and well worth reading. First,…
Against “phobia”
There's two uses of this common word: Fear or anxiety of something. Dislike of some group, usually left-wing aligned. The first is the original as it is just the Greek…
The racism of teachers
This is the 1601st post on this blog since 2007 (I regret not seeing the counter was at 1599 yesterday!). That's kinda crazy to think about. In about 2.5 years…
Danish women also don’t like nuclear power
Here's a fun analysis I did as a side-project. I have a dataset of ~620 Danes who took a long vocabulary test, as well as answered 30 political questions. One…