Steve Sailer is putting together a book of his best essays.<\/p>\n
Comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n * Include exchange with [John] Podhoretz.<\/p>\n * All the needling and making fun of David Brooks and Malcolm Gladwell.<\/p>\n Those were funny as hell.<\/p>\n * Your posts referencing Tom Wolfe\u2019s Hunt for The Great White Defendant and police shootings.<\/p>\n * Things that stand out in my memory:<\/p>\n Love is not colorblind * Plaques for Blacks is a classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIn contrast, white Americans used to take the complaints of American Indians more seriously. And indeed, Indians have much to legitimately gripe about regarding life on reservations such as Pine Ridge. But in recent years, as whites have become ever more amused by blacks, white concern for Indians has diminished. Native Americans, with their plodding dance rhythms, athletic stiffness, and lack of a gift of gab, have increasingly vanished from American consciousness. They now appear to strike whites less as noble and tragic than as depressing and tedious compared with those always entertaining blacks.\u201d<\/p>\n * Men With Gold Chains is a cool shorthand for the concentric circles\/leapfrogging loyalties dynamic- that motif that ties together a lot of stuff from parochial allegiances\/affordable family formation\/chain migration\/dying alone\/etc that needs to be in there somehow as a kind of conceptual glue.<\/p>\n * Revealed preferences in racial dating<\/p>\n Marriage gap > gender gap<\/p>\n Rolling Stone hoax exposure<\/p>\n Sailer Strategy<\/p>\n Commenter\u2019s Trump Marches on D.C.<\/p>\n Discussions of Bonfire and Back to Blood<\/p>\n Discussion of L\u2019Affaire Watson<\/p>\n Most Important Graph in the World<\/p>\n Gaddafi\u2019s death<\/p>\n The Deep State\/Turkey compared to U.S.<\/p>\n * First rule of female journalism needs to be included. It underlines many of your thoughts.<\/p>\n * How do you plan on organizing the book? Is it going to be just an assortment of your best pieces, or is it going to be broken up by topic area? Do you want the selections, taken together, to make an argument for a broader worldview? Do you plan to revise any of the pieces for publication?<\/p>\n Regardless, here are some of my favorite things you wrote:<\/p>\n 1) The Cousin-Marriage Conundrum * Your \u201cDarwin\u2019s Enemies\u201d (left and right) is a favorite of mine. It displays, as you once said, writing about high brow material in a low brow style.<\/p>\n * I think the Jarod Taylor debate is pretty foundational, if you can stick him in there with ya. That would probably be a good thing to open with. All your book reviews of the big books you\u2019ve reviewed. Fukuyama and Pinker and such. Pops to mind your review of Paul Johnson\u2019s book on Darwin. And you\u2019ve reviewed other Johnson books . I always find your movie reviews fun and informing but maybe those are two ephemeral. When you used to write your VDare essays when you linked to them from your blog, at some point VDare stopped getting original stuff right? Anyways those were good and good length for an anthology entry. You gotta get the stuff on the big ones you called like the housing bubble, UVA obviously, I\u2019m forgetting a big one, dude you gotta get your Donald Sterling stuff in there. Affordable Family Formation. The speech you gave on your epistemology at the Mencken Conference years ago. Your golf course architecture is coextensive evolutionary theory was that it was or something. Obviously you\u2019ve written plenty on Testosterone, the man molecule. Olympics stuff. Ben Franklin stuff. Sailers First Laws of Female Journalism. <\/p>\n * Steve, you could publish several books: a collection of your movie reviews, a collection of your book reviews, a collection of your writings on politics, a book of good posts that don\u2019t fall into any of the above categories.<\/p>\n Why do it? Blogs won\u2019t last, but books have a 4,000 year history. There\u2019s already so much stuff in books, that some form of access to them will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. If you want the future to read you, publish more books.<\/p>\n * Can\u2019t remember specific article names, but these are the themes you\u2019ve written about that I\u2019ve found most enlightening:<\/p>\n – Sailer strategy I guess I\u2019d say the general theme of the above is peering through our current conceits about liberal egalitarian individualism to uncover the ways the world really works.<\/p>\n * Ben Franklin Principle and inverse (Get someone to do you a favor to like you and People hate it when you do favors for them all the time \u2013 it shows you are more powerful than them.)<\/p>\n How Females (Female Journalists) Always Want To Redefine Objective Standards of Beauty Such That It Equals Them<\/p>\n Why Protesters Never Actually Attack an Oppressor That Could Actually Hurt Them<\/p>\n How Males Imprint On Their Environment as Young and Seek to Re-create It When Older<\/p>\n How Gays Run Fashion Mags and Choose Androgynous Females to Represent Ideal Beauty (ie 16 year old boys) Why Football Players Are Neither Too Smart nor Too Independent Thinkers<\/p>\n Why Football Defense is Improvised Seek-and-Destroy-Offence<\/p>\n * Structure-wise you\u2019ve got a huge advantage over most (or every) mainstream pundits \u2013 you\u2019ve been consistently right about lots of different things over a very long period of time.<\/p>\n This is lots of work but I think this works very well for your strength as a structure –<\/p>\n Setup [new writing] giving an idea of the intellectual climate around the issue One example that\u2019s quite current \u2013 the Rolling Stone \/ Haven Monahan rape hoax. Your setup is coalition of the fringes \/ Jewish anti-whiteism \/ search for the great white defendant. Older column \u2013 an early mention of that with an earlier example. Newer column \u2013 a vindication \/ victory lap column that\u2019s more recent. Capper \u2013 why you were able to see it when the mainstream wasn\u2019t and what it says about the future.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t neglect sports when picking column pairs as there is an immense untapped market for realistic, intelligent sports commentary.<\/p>\n * – Race FAQ * Steve Sailer: I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019ve ever written up the story of how I came not to write anymore for National Review, but it\u2019s not at all scandalous. Rich Lowry behaved quite honorably, as (I hope) I did as well.<\/p>\n * 1. One volume on sports might be very popular. It\u2019s not my thing but obviously sports occupy a huge chunk of the American male mind. And the beauty of sports statistics is that you can use obvious undeniable facts (100% black cornerbacks, 100% black 100m finalists) \u2014 granted that sports statistics are already an acceptable topic of discussion \u2014 to force people to ask the questions that need to be asked.<\/p>\n 2. I would love a collection of movie reviews \u2014 maybe re-edited or re-organized to give one or more thematic \u2018hooks\u2019 to readers who aren\u2019t immediately drawn in by the movie titles. For example, the idea that behind the scenes, a lot of the creative geniuses are actually not on board with The Narrative.<\/p>\n 2b. I don\u2019t think this comes up quite as much on the blog, but in terms of new content \u2014 personally, I\u2019m very interested in Steve\u2019s thoughts on literature. Waugh, Gibbon, Macaulay, to Updike and Tom Wolfe. http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/the-coup-by-john-updike\/#comment-415650<\/p>\n 3. Not unrelated, a California-themed collection would be great. I remember the story of serving on jury duty for the Iranian car scammer; the piece of fiction about the Minority Mortgage Meltdown; various San Fernando Valley anecdotes; Bay Area vs. Southern California (a lot of great commenters there too).<\/p>\n 4. Going right for the jugular, a Handbook to Ethnic Studies in America would be pretty great. Steve is so careful with his assertions, all of the outrage would basically be \u201cpoint \u2018n\u2019 sputter.\u201d<\/p>\n 5. I\u2019ve been especially interested in Steve\u2019s reviews of other intellectual interlocutors, and his evaluations of their big theories, in book reviews and otherwise. Jared Taylor and Jorge Castaneda have been mentioned, but there are so many more. Yuri Slezkine, David Coleman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Paul Krugman, Charles Murray. Raj Chetty. Elizabeth Warren. Robert Putnam. Francis Fukuyama. Samuel Huntington. Wasn\u2019t there a big dialogue with Ron Unz early on? In each case, I find that Steve\u2019s approach of taking a basic reality check is priceless. Raj Chetty may be an otherworldly genius in terms of theory. But how much does he know about reality? 5b. Also \u2014 more broadly than intellectuals \u2014 profiles of individuals whose current significance is useful in understanding the world. Obviously Obama and Gulen. Coates. Bill Richardson. Joaquin and Julian Castro. Ellen Pao. Claire Cain Miller. Theranos girl. Tony Rezko. Jeremiah Wright. George P. Bush.<\/p>\n For me, Steve\u2019s greatest contribution is in Noticing Patterns and Remembering Facts. We can quibble about the interpretations and the details but once presented with a significant fact, you can\u2019t just ignore it. Thus, when Steve Notices a Pattern and then gives it a catchy name, it\u2019s impossible forever afterwards not to notice further instances of that pattern.<\/p>\n Thus \u2014 I\u2019m no good with titles but I would suggest that the theme of one volume could be for example: Noticing Patterns: 25 Concepts That Make Sense of the Current Year. And each chapter could collect Steve\u2019s developed thoughts on that particular pattern. Maybe it\u2019s the marketing background but I think Steve has a genius for tagging a Pattern with an instantly memorable catchphrase. Then forever afterward, you can\u2019t avoid Noticing them. Who? Whom? (this one above all) * Elections have consequences. Tide has turned. All the protest stuff this week is rearguard action. Maybe Hillary has some rumored last shot, but it will fail, ultimately, if it exists.<\/p>\n Look, we won, remember? All these people having vapors now because they\u2019ve lost power over their former opponents. Just be nice to them and extend a hand no matter how many times they slap it away, be a good example of we are all Americans. Let them lose the pr war by themselves now. World is sick\/ashamed of SJW type monkeyshines.<\/p>\n SJW-ism, setting internet mobs on people, is going to start having serious legal consequences. IRL, it is illegal to incite a riot or lynch mob. It is soon going to be the case online.<\/p>\n And why shouldn\u2019t it be? It is domestic terrorism, again, one of those things that were projected upon us by SJW types. Demand it be stopped by authorities, it is a barbaric practice, like human sacrifice in a primitive society.<\/p>\n Which the internet is at the moment.<\/p>\n We have a bunch of people who have been feralized by nonstop propaganda for years. We should empathize with them, like the captives of communism after the end of it. So be patient with them, it will be worth it.<\/p>\n I mean, if presidency and both houses don\u2019t make you feel like we won, I\u2019m not sure what will.<\/p>\n * Sailer\u2019s biggest mistake.<\/p>\n He should have kept mum about Steve Job\u2019s bio that was slated to be called iSteve.<\/p>\n He would have gotten more traffic.<\/p>\n * The Sailer Strategy and your work on civic nationalism should be central. Trump already ripped off your election strategy, and his instincts are going to lead him in the direction of your civic nationalism work. From that core, expand out into themes that would be related to the emerging Trumpian nationalism. One black a block, Affordable family formation, natalism, diversity management, etc.<\/p>\n One additional suggestion: seek out Vox Day for advice, and potentially as a publishing platform. He would be a good judge of content, and has a good instinct for salability.<\/p>\n Castalia House is the publisher you want to contact.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.castaliahouse.com\/<\/p>\n They have been at the top of the Amazon sales lists in the politics and philosophy areas for the last year. * In no particular order:<\/p>\n \u2022 Citizenism vs white nationalism (probably a good time to give this idea more exposure)<\/p>\n \u2022 Invade the World\/Invite the World<\/p>\n \u2022 G.W. Bush, Redlining, minority homeownership, and the GFC<\/p>\n \u2022 KKKrazy Glue \/ Coalition of the Fringes<\/p>\n \u2022 Concentric vs leapfrogging loyalties<\/p>\n \u2022 War on Noticing \/ Protective stupidity<\/p>\n \u2022 Anti-gentilism<\/p>\n \u2022 Overton shift re immigration, NYT, and Carlos Slim \u2022 Occam\u2019s Razor\/Butterknife<\/p>\n \u2022 Megaphone\/Narrative\/Eye of Soros \u2013 esp. Black Body Theory and Haven Monahan<\/p>\n \u2022 Magic Dirt Theory as well as Section 8 as a tool for real estate developers<\/p>\n \u2022 Set of useful statistics to calibrate your BS detector: demographics \u2013 esp. \u201clatino tidal wave\u201d and Slippery 6 type numbers that showed faultiness of conventional \u201cpander to hispanics\u201d wisdom \u2013 crime stats, etc.<\/p>\n \u2022 The World\u2019s Most Important Graph \u2013 good chance for you to repeat your Sailer Doctrine success<\/p>\n \u2022 Some stuff on Coming Apart, The Bell Curve, and Ghettoside<\/p>\n \u2022 Merkel\u2019s Boner<\/p>\n \u2022 Rotherham<\/p>\n \u2022 The Tsarnaevs, Omar Mateen, and the CIA<\/p>\n \u2022 William Shockley, test scores, Test Score Tong Wars<\/p>\n \u2022 Feminism, Elizabeth Holmes, Ellen Pao and her gay husband, stupid investors (or smart enough to know they can use the Narrative to pump, and dump after IPO \u2013 I honestly don\u2019t know) \u2013 Theranos board of directors is interesting. I\u2019ve been fascinated by the whole Theranos saga but idk if others have same interest<\/p>\n \u2022 It would be pretty funny if you devoted some space to some of the more determinedly stupid journalists and bloggers \u2013 Matt Yglesias comes to mind, as well as Genius T. Coates and maybe Josh Marshall. Might be risking looking petty here but would be entertaining reading.<\/p>\n * It depends what the purpose of the book is. Perhaps the most ambitious goal would be crossover to the mainstream.<\/p>\n Someone mentioned Freakonomics \u2013 which is subtitled \u201cA Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything\u201d.<\/p>\n Perhaps the book could be along the lines \u201ca rogue statistician notices the stubborn endurance of phenomena that Americans thought had gone away.\u201d<\/p>\n The ideal articles are ones: * In no particular order:<\/p>\n \u2022 Citizenism vs white nationalism (probably a good time to give this idea more exposure)<\/p>\n \u2022 Invade the World\/Invite the World<\/p>\n \u2022 G.W. Bush, Redlining, minority homeownership, and the GFC<\/p>\n \u2022 KKKrazy Glue \/ Coalition of the Fringes<\/p>\n \u2022 Concentric vs leapfrogging loyalties<\/p>\n \u2022 War on Noticing \/ Protective stupidity<\/p>\n \u2022 Anti-gentilism<\/p>\n \u2022 Overton shift re immigration, NYT, and Carlos Slim \u2022 Occam\u2019s Razor\/Butterknife<\/p>\n \u2022 Megaphone\/Narrative\/Eye of Soros \u2013 esp. Black Body Theory and Haven Monahan<\/p>\n \u2022 Magic Dirt Theory as well as Section 8 as a tool for real estate developers<\/p>\n \u2022 Set of useful statistics to calibrate your BS detector: demographics \u2013 esp. \u201clatino tidal wave\u201d and Slippery 6 type numbers that showed faultiness of conventional \u201cpander to hispanics\u201d wisdom \u2013 crime stats, etc.<\/p>\n \u2022 The World\u2019s Most Important Graph \u2013 good chance for you to repeat your Sailer Doctrine success<\/p>\n \u2022 Some stuff on Coming Apart, The Bell Curve, and Ghettoside<\/p>\n \u2022 Merkel\u2019s Boner<\/p>\n \u2022 Rotherham<\/p>\n \u2022 The Tsarnaevs, Omar Mateen, and the CIA<\/p>\n \u2022 William Shockley, test scores, Test Score Tong Wars<\/p>\n \u2022 Feminism, Elizabeth Holmes, Ellen Pao and her gay husband, stupid investors (or smart enough to know they can use the Narrative to pump, and dump after IPO \u2013 I honestly don\u2019t know) \u2013 Theranos board of directors is interesting. I\u2019ve been fascinated by the whole Theranos saga but idk if others have same interest<\/p>\n \u2022 It would be pretty funny if you devoted some space to some of the more determinedly stupid journalists and bloggers \u2013 Matt Yglesias comes to mind, as well as Genius T. Coates and maybe Josh Marshall. Might be risking looking petty here but would be entertaining reading.<\/p>\n I enjoy your movie and book reviews, as well as the stuff on Tom Wolfe and Heinlein. I like reading about Sabermetrics, although that\u2019s more out of an interest in predictive statistics than baseball. Similarly, I find the golf stuff interesting more because of changing cultural tides and real estate issues rather than any great love for the sport.<\/p>\n A structure similar to Mark Steyn\u2019s The Undocumented Mark Steyn would allow for the full range of iSteve topics to be touched on, including reviews etc. and could probably be done without too much rewriting. Something akin to a Citizenist Manifesto would be great to read but probably a lot more time, research, and rewriting. I\u2019d buy either or both.<\/p>\n Incidentally, I bought America\u2019s Half-Blood Prince recently and intend to read it before Obama leaves office. I didn\u2019t know about iSteve in \u201908 but I think it will be an interesting read with the benefit of hindsight.<\/p>\n * I agree with Canadian Observer: you have material for a whole series of books.<\/p>\n You have already published America\u2019s Half-Blood Prince.<\/p>\n Next up:<\/p>\n America\u2019s Philosopher\u2019s Stone: how Benjamin Franklin published the recipe that made America great, and how we can still profit by his insight.<\/p>\n America\u2019s Chambers of Secrets: the many true things that cannot be said in the press or the classroom or the workplace.<\/p>\n America\u2019s Prisoners of Yes I Can: how the refusal to acknowledge diversity of aptitude misdirects our educational efforts.<\/p>\n America\u2019s Goblet of Fire: how misunderstandings concerning crime and punishment will cause our cities to burn.<\/p>\n America\u2019s Order for Phoenix: How George Bush\u2019s plan to promote Latino homeownership led to boom and bust in the Southwest.<\/p>\n America\u2019s Deathly Hallows: the cost in treasure and in lives of misguided reverence for sacred slogans.<\/p>\n * Steve, you had a very funny and perceptive post while back, proposing that instead of capturing more black votes, Republicans should try to brand the Democratic Party as the \u201cblack party\u201d by constantly but indirectly referencing that as something that \u201ceverybody knows\u201d. That and any other suggestions you have made to the GOP over the years would fit nicely with the Sailer Strategy theme.<\/p>\n I agree with earlier posters that the two biggest selling points (other than the Strategy of course) are prophetic predictions, and recurring memes and concepts innovated in the blog. Additional examples besides the ones from earlier comments:<\/p>\n -Lack of media coverage\/analysis of Mexico, despite the obvious importance I would de-emphasize the snarky attacks on Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 over-rated abilities, and the sometimes obsessive focus on Jews. The TNC stuff comes across as resentment that he is treated as smart, when he obviously is smart, or is undeservedly successful (which he also is). Your analysis of all things Jewish is often interesting, but the blog (more so than the essays) often focuses on it to a degree that is not always warranted by the material. This pattern was stronger in older posts, with a tendency to over-Judaize things that have simpler explanations, and I got the sense that it reflected your temporary intellectual interests for a few years, similar to the earlier focus on Obama, and that afterwards you use the synthesis of that research, but are no longer occupied with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve Sailer is putting together a book of his best essays. Comments: * Include exchange with [John] Podhoretz. * All the needling and making fun of David Brooks and Malcolm Gladwell. Those were funny as hell. * Your posts referencing … Continue reading
\nJorge G. Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s \u201cMa\u00f1ana Forever? Mexico and the Mexicans\u201d
\nAffordable Family Formation
\nFun stories about Jerry Pournelle and Greg Cochran<\/p>\n
\n2) The piece on the differences between gays and lesbians
\n3) The post (I think it was titled \u201cTendencies\u201d) about Jews
\n4) As an F-you to JPod, the \u201cLet the Good Times Roll\u201d article<\/p>\n
\n– Marriage gap
\n– The ethnic biases that are held by many non whites and Jews, and how our current ideas that only whiteness has such negative agency allows them to obscure these biases, even from themselves
\n– The left forgetting how long they\u2019ve been in charge of things and always seeing \u2018the man\u2019 elsewhere
\n– \u2018The ideal world of many female political activists is one in which they themselves will be seen as more attractive\u2019
\n– Obama\u2019s racial obsessions as seen in his autobiography
\n– The flight from white
\n– The megaphone
\n– The alteration of American identity to the \u2018nation of immigrants\u2019 conception from the \u2018settlers\u2019 conception in the last century, and how it\u2019s pretended its always been like this (eg your \u2018posterity\u2019 example, emma lazarus)
\n– War on noticing<\/p>\n
\netc etc<\/p>\n
\nOlder Essay \/ Column
\nNewer Essay \/ Column
\nCapper [new writing] with lessons learned<\/p>\n
\n– IQ FAQ
\n– HBD 101
\n-Citizenism
\n– Affordable family formation\/the marriage gap and all its political implications re: concentric vs. leapfrogging loyalties, the Coalition of the Fringes, etc.
\n– The high\/low team-up against the middle. Why is mass migration even a rancorous political issue obfuscated by being discussed only in moralizing terms if it\u2019s so transparently bad for America? BECAUSE OF ALL THE MONEY THEY STAND TO MAKE.
\n– The Narrative. MSM incestuousness and collusion.
\n– Obama stuff that came after \u201cAmerica\u2019s Half-Blood Prince\u201d
\n– Along the lines of the last three points, the Triumph of Marketing in general.
\n– Invade the world\/invite the world. Neocon foreign policy & compassionate imperialism
\n– Arguments for immigration restrictionism. The stuff about how the US is different from Latin America re: racial color castes was particularly interesting to me, as were histories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
\n– Also the history of American immigration in general. Ben Franklin\u2019s ideas, Emma Lazarus\u2019s hokum, etc.
\n– The concept of diminishing marginal returns in politics & adaptability, again going back to Ben Franklin.
\n– Something about eugenics and the Age of Galton like in your speech to Margaret Thatcher<\/p>\n
\nMichael Barone: http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/barone-backsliding-into-bankruptcy<\/p>\n
\nThere\u2019s too many to count and readers will know exactly what I mean but, off the top of my head, in addition to those already mentioned. Obviously there is some overlap:<\/p>\n
\nNoticing Patterns (itself)
\nPolitical Correctness Makes You Stupid
\nVibrant Diversity
\nHuman Biodiversity
\nDisparate Impact
\nConcentric Loyalties vs. Leapfrogging Loyalties
\nWorld War T
\nAdventuresses
\nSapir-Whorf
\nAnti-Gentilism
\nAll We Have To Do is Fix the Schools
\n\u201cGood Schools\u201d
\nInvade the World, Invite the World, In Hock to the World
\n50% Nature, 50% Nurture
\nMen With Gold Chains
\nPartially Inbred Extended Family
\nBeverly Hills Chihuahua \/ Extreme Texans \/ Mexican Mediocrity
\nMulatto Elite \/ Paper-Bag Test \/ Certain People
\nCalifornia, the future of America
\nMarketing Major Postmodernism
\nChechens
\nSailer\u2019s First Law of Female Journalism<\/p>\n
\nThey started as a sci-fi publisher and have expanded their reach. William Lind, Martin van Creveld Mike Cernovich and a host of others are published by them. They do hard cover, paperback, e-book of all varieties and audio books.
\nNothing against Regnery except that they are last years news.
\nI know I have mentioned them in the past when the first musings about your book appeared.
\nI like their books, their authors and their editor.
\nFace it that you are and your book will be controversial. Might as well go whole hog and become a best seller while you are at it.<\/p>\n
\n-Phalangist ties are fascinating but if you\u2019re trying to keep the book close to your core themes maybe not worth mentioning. BTW that\u2019s yet another interesting topic that brings you up at the top of a Google search)<\/p>\n
\n(a) that are backed by data
\n(b) where the essential point can be put across with a graphic and a brief explanation; which can then be followed by a longer exploration of whatever causes, consequences, and conventional wisdom is appropriate
\n(c) that will change the way that readers think; perhaps help them to see things that are in plain sight but that they have been trained not to notice.<\/p>\n
\n-Phalangist ties are fascinating but if you\u2019re trying to keep the book close to your core themes maybe not worth mentioning. BTW that\u2019s yet another interesting topic that brings you up at the top of a Google search)<\/p>\n
\n-Lack of attention to averages or modal characteristics
\n-Need for more accurate stereotypes, not fewer stereotypes
\n-\u201dextended family\u201d metaphor for race
\n-(the war on) Pattern Recognition
\n-Israel as a model for the USA on border wall, and having a conscious demographic policy
\n-Zeroth Amendment<\/p>\n