Natural elites, high on openness and intelligence, are attracted to ideologies that are globalist in orientation. They don’t ...

No state party deserves to lose this election cycle as much as Texas Republicans. In their Senate primary, they tossed out a perfectly normal incumbent in favor of a guy whose only distinguishing ...

When police killings of black men were in the headlines during the 2010s and early 2020s, we would often hear about “the talk” that black parents had to have with their sons. Law enforcement was ...

Nearly every political movement that taps into mass passions has a villain, and the most energized portion of the left has in the last few years shifted from blaming the white male patriarchy for the ...

It’s getting kind of repetitive pointing out that conservative anti-immigration arguments make no sense and directly contradict other things they say they believe. But indulge me once more. This topic ...

Keeperman complains about those who say: You are a moral reprobate for preferring homogeneity. That makes you a bad person. That is pathological for you to express those preferences. And moreover, ...

Some of you were around for my 2022 reader survey (see Part I, Part II, and Part III). I just reran it, and this post will discuss the results. First, allow me to credit ChatGPT. We spend so much time ...

In summer 2022, I did a reader survey. Here are Part I, Part II, and Part III of the results. When I last did the survey, I had 1/5th of the readers I have now. I think it would be fascinating to see ...

There are a lot of cross-racial behavioral genetic studies that support hereditarianism, but environmentalists have one 1961 paper they can point to. After World War II, Germany was occupied by the ...

Scott Sumner has some wise words on trying to assess p(doom) as an outsider. In his article, I came across this result of the 2022 chart below on existential risk ...

My view of the conservative side of the political spectrum has grown increasingly dark. It’s not a matter of finding bad people on social media. The dominant impulses of the movement, as demonstrated ...