I've been reading through some old papers and stumbled across an exchange between journalist Walter Lippmann and Lewis Terman in 1922 (original). Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough to convert my…
We just published a new article: Jensen, S., & Kirkegaard, E. (2025). Stereotypes of the Intelligence of Nations. Comparative Sociology, 24(2), 272-295. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10134 The authors surveyed a nationally representative sample…
(Guest post by anon.) Many are aware of disparities in crime rates among ethnic and racial groups in Western countries. But what patterns emerge in Japan, a country far from…
My book review of Michael Ryan's book briefly covered this topic but due to popular interest, here is a full post. Famously, there was a genocide in Rwanda in the…
If you look at a plot of age of first marriage and age of first birth (usually following marriage), you might get the idea that the 1960s cultural revolution, feminism…
Let's define global capitalism as market economy combined with relatively free movement of labor (people) and capital. This is approximately world we live in. We have an unequal world to…
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…
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…
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,…
People have been posting results from this new Dutch study of immigration, so I thought I would cover it here to increase the reach. van de Beek, J., Hartog, J.,…