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- What the Clinician Knows: The Career of Amy Bloom
- Steven Pinker: Language, Human Nature, and Progress
- No Lessons: The Fiction of Melvin Jules Bukiet
- The Double Life: Jonathan Ames Between Memoir and Invention
- World-Class Haters: Terry Moran and the End of the Neutral Correspondent
- The Price of Politics: Ian Bremmer and the Making of Political Risk
- The Duck and the Rabbit: Danielle Blau and the Marriage of Philosophy and Poetry
- The Stage He Could Not Find: Lawrence Kohlberg and the Limits of Moral Development
- Steve Almond: Affection Without Exemption
- Karen Bender: Small Decisions, Remade Lives
- John J. Mearsheimer and the Hero System of the Cold Look
- Arne Naess: The Hero System of the Wide Self
- Yael Goldstein Love
- Aimee Bender and the Uses of the Impossible
- Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein
- Karl Stefanovic aka Joe Bogan
- Sociologist John W. Meyer
- Shalom Auslander and the God He Cannot Leave
- The Mattering Map
- Regime Change and the Misunderstanding Myth
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
* The Most Socially Toxic Inconvenient Truths (1-18-26)
* The Luke Ford Genre (1-18-26)
* The Filkins Pivot: Legacy Prestige and the Fracturing of the Chattering Class (1-16-26)
* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
* Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact (12-15-25)
* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
* Decoding Nick Fuentes (11-2-25)
* The Landscape of Emotional Sobriety (10-29-30)
* The Rise & Fall Of Air Supply (10-19-25)
* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
* You Are An Important Soldier In A Great War (9-7-25)
* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
* The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
* If you can’t trust central bankers, then who can you trust? (8-23-25)
* Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
* Why Do Smart News Operations Sound So Uniformly Dumb So Often? (8-16-25)
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Category Archives: America
The Megaphone in One Graph
Steve Sailer: “The New York Times has a tool called Chronicle for telling you what percentage of Times article have included a particular word over the centuries. Here we see “racism” in green, “sexism” in black, and “transgender” in blue, … Continue reading
How To Stop Illegal Immigration
Chaim Amalek writes: Want vast numbers of illegal aliens to self-deport? The offer them a minimum wage of $75/hour collectible ONLY on their way OUT of the US. That would eliminate any incentive to hire them and give them a … Continue reading
Cathy Young: Ann Coulter Is Anti-Semitic But Sabrina Rubin Erdely Couldn’t Possibly be Anti-Gentilic
Steve Sailer writes: From the annals of the Sapir-Whorf effect … Libertarian writer Cathy Young, a sort of Ayn Rand Lite, is getting some mileage in the Daily Beast out of accusing Ann Coulter of anti-Semitism due to guilt by … Continue reading
WP: The one thing rich parents do for their kids that makes all the difference
Comments to Steve Sailer: * …it’s not just whites that have inter-white wars. People in every country struggle for power. Race just adds an extra fault line because people feel more kinship (literally) to people who look more like them. … Continue reading
Trump & Sanders Win Again
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The Republican Presumptive Nominee keeps racking up even bigger victories. The Democratic Presumptive Nominee keeps losing primaries? * Trump is sitting pretty and looking good with everyone he needs except suburban women…Hillz and the Dems … Continue reading
Why George Washington Would Have Agreed With Donald Trump
Michael Hirsch writes for Politico: For all the lamentation about the level of rhetoric in this Trumped-up election year, the race between Donald Trump and all-but-certain Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is already shaping up to be a debate over America’s … Continue reading
Trump’s Foreign Policy: A View from Israel
Israeli professor Yitzchak Klein writes: 1. Limiting Foreign Interventions Trump has got this right. Many Israelis were skeptical about the United States’ nation-building efforts in the Middle East from the start—from the Bush variety, which ended up handing most of … Continue reading
Forward: Donald Trump Puzzles Jewish Groups by Failing To Create Communication Channels
All of the major Jewish groups, such as the ADL, the SWC, the SPLC, and the Jewish Federations, pursue the opposite values from mine, the opposite values from the Torah I learned, so when I hear that Donald Trump is … Continue reading
Obama’s last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy
Paul Sperry writes: Hillary’s rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy. The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help … Continue reading
Different Times Call For Different Leaders
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Point one, the election tropes of Reagan in 1980 are as useful to 2016 as those of Wilkie in 1944 were to 1980. Point two, Reagan’s legacy is distorted through the lense of post-Reagan Bushian-Cuckservatism. … Continue reading