Dalton Conley

1 month ago | kirkusreviews.com | Dalton Conley |Omar El Akkad |Walter Isaacson

The latest on nature versus nurture may unsettle readers at the extremes but will entertain them all. Figuring out who we are—and who we will become. Belief in the superiority of people like you can be deeply satisfying. Nazism gave that a bad reputation, but it revived with the 1994 bestseller The Bell Curve, whose authors maintained that people achieve if they inherit abilities that nonachievers and minorities lack.

Jul 21, 2023 | thecreativeindependent.com | Dalton Conley

Sociologist Dalton Conley discusses finding balance, learning from failure, and writing memoirs that tell the story of your time. Highlights on Is there a story behind writing your 2001 book Honky? In my 20s, I had written, mostly as a form of therapy, a novel about a guy who is from the Lower East Side, he’s in California, he falls in love with a woman, he goes through a breakup. It was supposed to be a bildungsroman, a coming of age story.

May 6, 2023 | newyorker.com | Dalton Conley

The boards, which adjudicated claims for reclassification or deferment on a case-by-case basis, had a distinct character. They were disproportionately white, white-collar, and elderly. According to analyses conducted in the nineteen-sixties, draft boards more often granted deferments to privileged young men, and poor Americans of color made up a disproportionate share of draftees.

Apr 11, 2023 | nature.com | Dalton Conley

Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86716-y, published online 07 April 2021The Acknowledgements section in the original version of this Article was incomplete. It now reads:“This research was funded by the following awards from the National Institute on Aging (NIA): K99 AG056599, R00 AG056599, P30 AG012846, T32 AG000221 (Schmitz), and P30 AG017266 (Lu and Schmitz).