Hutus and Tutsis and genetics
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…
People did not used to marry early in the good old times
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…
End stage global capitalism
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…
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…
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,…
Good immigrants, bad immigrants: Dutch edition
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.,…
Selective migration and regression towards the mean
There is much discussion in these days about immigration to the West, and in particular, skilled migration to the United States. Critics of migration often point to regression towards the…
Somalis in the USA: also not a success
Western countries are experimenting with solutions to their population aging problem. For instance, one of the countries with the worst age pyramids is Germany: Since the welfare state is effectively…
Norwegian cognitive inequality and its social consequences
There's a new kickass study based on Norwegian register data: Bratsberg, B., Fjell, A. M. M., Rogeberg, O. J., Skirbekk, V. F., & Walhovd, K. B. (2024). Differences in early…