Category Archives: Race

Southern Poverty Law Center Goes After Henry Harpending

Jayman writes: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) current “Featured Extremist” (their words) is none other than the mild-mannered Henry Harpending of West Hunter They go into a fair amount of detail about Harpending and his work, but take a … Continue reading

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The Nature Of Race

J. Fuerst writes: It is frequently asserted: firstly, that the word “race” is meaningless; secondly, that races are not, biologically speaking, real; thirdly, that while there do exist biological races in other animal species, there are none in ours; and … Continue reading

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The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967-2014 by Raymond Wolters

I interview historian Raymond Wolters Tuesday evening. He is the author of The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation (1984), Du Bois and His Rivals (2005), The New Negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s (1975), … Continue reading

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The Sharing Economy Depends Upon Social Trust

Homogeneous white and asian communities have high social trust. By contrast, racial diversity destroys trust. Most people prefer their own kind. The sharing economy (Uber, AirBNB, etc) depend upon social trust. They simply won’t work well with low IQ people … Continue reading

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IN SEARCH OF HUMAN NATURE: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought By Carl N. Degler

Richard A. Shweder wrote in the New York Times in 1991: Anyone who has lived long enough in the social sciences has seen the nature-nurture pendulum swing: from nature in the first decades of the century, to nurture in the … Continue reading

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