Oliver D. Smith gets his day in City Journal
City Journal has just published its piece a piece on notorious online stalker Oliver D. Smith: The Cancel-Culture Troll with a Neo-Nazi Past. Readers of this blog may be familiar…
GDP problems, but what solutions?
Suppose you want to measure how well a country is doing. If you're an economist you will be immediately reaching for your trusted variant of the GDP per capita metric.…
Vigilante justice
Let's apply some cool headed thinking to the issue. In societies without well-functioning legal systems, residents will strive to achieve their own justice. Usually, this works by appointing someone to…
Which occupation are you?
About a month ago this very interesting paper was published: Wolfram, T. (2023). (Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits. Intelligence, 98,…
What are the most important human biodiversity books?
Yesterday I ran a survey on Twitter asking people to rate 49 human biodiversity books for importance. Human biodiversity here used in the broad sense of any study of biological…
A plethora of evidence for genetic influence of American race-ethnic gaps in intelligence
Back in 2021, Russell Warne wrote a nice summary article about race differences in intelligence: Warne, R. T. (2021). Between-group mean differences in intelligence in the United States are> 0%…
From riches to rags to riches
One of the interesting lines of evidence about the importance of human capital in wealth disparities comes from examples of how groups can recover from setbacks. There's several examples to…
What are the race differences in sexual behavior?
Suppose you wanted to know about race differences in sexual behavior, how would you find out? Well, you could ask people, and if self-reports are accurate and don't have some…
Cannabis probably causes schizophrenia
A lot of countries are currently pondering whether they should legalize or decriminalize the sale of cannabis for recreational use. Cannabis is generally considered a fairly safe drug, at least,…
Hanania’s diversity hypothesis tested and found wanting
Richard Hanania has a new post out: Diversity Really is Our Strength. (Noah Carl has a reply here, and Seb Jensen has a reply here) His piece is part-troll, part-serious…