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

This case was done on the stupid internet version of the cake baking controversy. I wish the case was about a cake, instead of website design. Faggots have been destroying Christians’ lives out of pure malice and hatred with this forced cake-baking demand, and I think the Supreme Court should have done a cake case.... Read More

Colin Woodard's book, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, is currently generating a lot of buzz. This is, in good part, thanks to an article that appeared in Tufts Magazine in which Woodard describes his work. Like David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America before... Read More

Full-page ads by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association have appeared in a number of leading newspapers over the past two weeks, urging voters to support “biblical values” in the upcoming election: The ads do not endorse any particular party or politician by name but they constitute a clear recommendation that evangelicals should vote for Mitt... Read More

Edit, 10/26/12: I've added a table of contents, to make navigating through this long post easier! Unlike the vast majority of HBD'ers, I lean to the political Left on a variety of issues. The primary reason for this is that most of the stuff that comes out of mainstream conservatives in America is utter insanity.... Read More

Mitt Romney will be the Republican to face President Obama in the fall. Tuesday night was the clincher, as the Mormon zealot won in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington DC. He may stumble on, but the Catholic zealot Rick Santorum is finished. It’s hard to detect any alluring feature in Romney’s psychic or political make-up, and... Read More

Mormons believe that when they die if they have been good they might wind up on their own personal planet somewhere to be reunited with their families, including generations of their forebears that they are able to bring into the church by proxy baptism. Hence their intense interest in genealogy. They believe that Jesus Christ,... Read More

When the story broke a few weeks ago about the polygamous Fundamentalist Mormon “compound” in Eldorado, Texas, from whence 416 children had been taken, I observed to my wife that a neocon pronouncement would soon follow, explaining why the forced separation of the children from their mothers was “good for liberal democracy.” Mary’s comment at... Read More