Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: The Purpose of Tenure [Sidebar to For Whom the Bell Tolls] First published in Forbes, October 24, 1994 VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow interviewed both Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein for his Forbes article on The Bell Curve, which is by Murray and Herrnstein. Herrnstein died of cancer between the... Read More

Yet another academic outrage, although this one concerning not the classroom but published science journals. We science geeks have long since got used to the fact that Scientific American magazine, which we once revered, now has an editorial board composed entirely of hysterical 13-year-old girls. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Blogger Turfed Out—Defenestrations Will Continue Until Morale Improves... Read More

Not a few people have noted that the impressive speed with which Black Harvard President Claudine Gay’s academic reputation has been nuked since she irritated the Israel Lobby. Being able to produce all this obscure information so quickly strongly suggests it had been stockpiled. Which in turn raises the question: upon who else have files... Read More

Science should be the most fascinating of subjects at school. Yet the way it is taught it is often very boring, and doesn’t answer stimulating and important questions about human beings, whom I believe are an advanced form of ape. Why are the most racially diverse cities in the United States are also the most... Read More

As advertised in my September 22nd podcast, I have been listening, via Audible, to Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave, just published this month. If you’ll excuse me repeating myself: He sure does. No one knows better than Suleyman how fast things are moving in those two areas of technological advance. That phrase in the book’s... Read More

The hashtag #roman empire has reportedly been viewed over a billion times on TikTok, with most videos women asking men the question: How often do you think about the Roman Empire? The surprising answer: a lot. Feminist historian Mary Beard, of course, says it’s because of male chauvinism [How often do you think about the... Read More

Earlier by Edward Dutton: “Brave And Kind"—Remembering Richard Lynn Finally ending the Orwellian situation where Wikipedia couldn’t acknowledge evolutionary psychologist Richard Lynn’s passing because it won’t link to Politically Incorrect sources like VDARE.com or American Renaissance, a Main Stream Media outlet has published an obituary, more than a month after he died [Richard Lynn, evolutionary... Read More

Earlier: Breasts, Buttocks, And The Left’s Love-Hate Relationship With Science He died 11 years ago, but few social scientists are more vilified than J. Philippe Rushton. The Ontario government actually tried to prosecute him when he presented his Differential-K model of racial differences in 1989 [In Memoriam—Dr. Philippe Rushton (1943-2012), by Albert Katz, John Allemang,... Read More

This may surprise you, but there are some groups in Western societies that are experiencing what we might call “eugenic fertility.” This means that, among these groups, there is positive selection for intelligence: the more intelligent are actually having more children than are the less intelligent. Two examples: Mormons and Norwegian males. A well-known example:... Read More

I recently found myself at the annual conference of ISIR, the International Society for Intelligence Research. Taking place at the Shatterton Plaza Hotel in Berkeley CA, it is the world’s premier gathering of researchers on IQ and related matters. Absent, of course, was Richard Lynn, who had died a few weeks earlier at the age... Read More

[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Last week I mentioned the 13 million dollar payout from New York City to Antifa who got their hair mussed by the NYPD during the George Floyd riots. That’s nothing to the 1.8 billion-dollar settlement to blacks and Hispanics who failed the teacher-licensing exam... Read More

Earlier: CEO of Doomed Submarine Going To Titanic Didn't Want To Hire '50-Year-Old White Guys' Because They're Not 'Inspirational' The world was ghoulishly captivated recently by the fate of the shoddily-built Titan submersible, which imploded while exploring The Titanic’s murky grave 12,500 feet below the surface of the North Atlantic. Five people were killed: three... Read More

Recently, the Union Jacks hoisted in London for King’s Charles’s coronation were clumsily taken down by reluctant workers, who replaced them with Rainbow Flags, the symbol of the GloboHomo Empire. The height of the British Empire was in the late nineteenth century and the reversal in attitudes since then is mind-blowing. Why were the Victorians... Read More

Earlier: Partying Prime Minister Sanna Marin A Product Of Finland’s Brittle Conformism (And Her Own Neuroses) In the The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution, a book I wrote with J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles, we analyzed U.S. General Social Survey Data and predicted that leftist women politicians would become increasingly stupid. Well, that’s... Read More

Almost four years ago, I looked at the problem of women in universities under the helpful heading Are Women Destroying Academia? Probably. This caused an international uproar when Professor Eric Rasmusen of the University of Indiana [Tweet him]) tweeted my article. The university’s provost and dean—both women, of course, stupidly confirming my point—condemned him as... Read More

U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has been forced out in a weird scandal involving “bullying” [Dominic Raab, U.K. Deputy Prime Minister, Resigns Amid Bullying Scandal, by Mark Landler and Stephen Castle, NYT, April 21, 2023]I just gave a bravura performance imitating his alleged behavior on my Jolly Heretic podcast to make a broader point:... Read More

See also: AFTER NASHVILLE, FACE IT: “Transgenders” Are Nuts. “Transphobia” is Rational. And Joe Biden Is An Idiot A serious scholarly study by a world expert in his field is under threat of being Cancelled. If the scheme unfolds according to plan, it will be declared scientifically and ethically flawed, forcibly withdrawn from an academic... Read More

See also: No, Emily Oster, We Don’t Need A COVID Amnesty—We Need A COVID Nuremberg I know it’s gone out of fashion since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine (meaning there was a brand-new shiny thing for everyone to virtue-signal about), but let’s go back to the days of the Covid-19 pandemic. I’ve been inspired to take... Read More

Roger Pearson, author and editor of 17 books, numerous articles, founding publisher of The Journal of Indo-European Studies, editor of The Mankind Quarterly, founding editor of The Journal of Political, Social and Economic Studies and Conservative Review, died in early January 2023. He was 95. (Published reports, including Wikipedia, citing the date of his passing... Read More

When wannabe GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley claimed that men older than 75 years should be tested for mental competence when they run for president, CNN’s Don Lemon commented that Haley herself, at 51, is “past her prime.” The Sisterhood was enraged. Polite society was aghast. And of course Lemon grovelled. But the harsh fact... Read More

Chart above via R/DataIsBeautiful One of the most controversial issues on the American Right is the so-called “JQ”—the “Jewish Question.” I often receive passionate emails demanding that I discuss the “JQ” or telling me that I am a coward who is too frightened to do so. The Jews “run America,” argue these people, because Jews... Read More

I’ve long been fascinated by the “controversial” British-Canadian psychologist J. Philippe Rushton (1943-2012), to the extent that I wrote the only book-length (by no means uncritical) biography of him: J. Philippe Rushton: A Life History Perspective. It’s equally fascinating to see a new study which, in essence, proves him correct—but whose authors cannot possibly bring... Read More