From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine of the already-canceled biography of novelist Philip Roth:
Roth vs. Updike
by Steve Sailer
May 11, 2021I hadnât planned to buy...
As everybody knows, I’m some kind of crazed extreme anti-murderist whose model for policing is Mayor Bloomberg’s NYPD. Heck, I’m such a fringe figure that I even liked Mayor de Blasio’s...
From the New York Times news section:
Past Students Say Professor of Rock ânâ Roll Sexually Harassed Them
Six former University of Michigan students have filed...
From Yahoo News, an opinion piece:
White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US
Jennifer Ho, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Thu, April...
iSteve commenter notsaying writes: And yet, almost all of the best movies of 2019 were about white men, starting with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Parasite being about white-adjacent Koreans. For...
From the opinion section of the Financial Times:
Substackâs success shows readers have had enough of polarised media
Newsletter platform points to a demand for diversity of views
JEMIMA...
Friday night I tweeted:
Mass shootings Friday night in Virginia Beach and Philadelphia. A test for Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings:
If more victims are killed than wounded, the mass shooter is probably...
The next morning, my mother took my head in her hands and forced me to say I will never repeat what I heard my father confess or we would all die.
— Lady down in Texas (@ladydownintexas) March...
From the New Zealand Herald:
US army halts gender neutral fitness test as women struggle
12 Mar, 2021 11:28 PM
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Nick Allen
The US army is considering scrapping its new...
Reports that the Chinese are buying Trump Buddha statues reminds of one of my favorite anecdotes: Sammy Davis Jr. felt that Planet of the Apes was the most insightful movie ever about race in America....
Humor from The New Yorker (with some interpolations by me -- see if you can guess which): Plots of Nineteen-Eighties Movies if Their Protagonists Had Been People of Color By Carlos Greaves February 27,...
From the New York Times sports section:
This Book Is Not About Baseball. But Baseball Teams Swear by It.
A psychology book by a Nobel Prize-winning author has become a must-read in front offices....
Results of a survey of human intelligence experts:
Table 4. Expert opinions on intelligence in the media and public debates. Accuracy of media, scale 1 (inaccurate) to 9 (accurate)
Score # of Respondents Steve...
Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech
A scholarâs address about racism and music theory was met with a vituperative,...
From a book review in the New York Times:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women
By Jill Filipovic
Jill Filipovic is a journalist and the author of âOK Boomer, Letâs...
From my review of the 2019 film Knives Out in Taki's Magazine: Knives Out has a few good things going for it, such as an initial setup that sounds promising. Christopher Plummer plays a genius best-selling...
From the Davis Enterprise in Northern California:
Gandhi statue toppled, defaced and removed
By Caleb Hampton
The statue in Davisâ Central Park of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Indian...
OK, I was wrong in predicting that because Johnson & Johnson announced earlier this week that because their vaccine clinical trial wouldn’t be released in January like they had promised, that...
The New York Times finally gets around to running an obituary for James Flynn, the most important leftist intelligence researcher of the last half century, who died December 11 of the last year. Similarly,...
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