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Yglesias: Why did Biden's handlers go nuts?

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

Matthew Yglesias writes at his Slow Boring* website:What we don't learn in "Original Sin"Who was driving the Biden administration's controversial policy choices? MATTHEW YGLESIASMAY 27Like everyone in Washington, I’ve read the new Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book, “Original Sin.” …But I had a lot of questions about the Biden administration and what actually happened, and I was hoping the book might answer some of them. Unfortunately, it mostly doesn’t.
Trump calls for axing of $37 billion quota

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

The Trump Administration is continuing to take advantage of the liberal establishment’s inability to explain why affirmative action is still needed after 56 years without wandering into their usual racist conspiracy theorizing about how white people are still secretly evil, which has been out of fashion since the election. From the Washington Post news section:This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
The New York Times discovers Human Biodiversity

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

From the New York Times’ news section:Is Trump’s ‘Made in America’ iPhone a Fantasy? Apple has resisted pressure to make its most important product in the United States since 2016, and instead has moved some production to India. By Tripp MickleReporting from San Francisco… What does China offer that the United States doesn’t? Small hands, a massive, seasonal work force and millions of engineers.
Robot Taxis Are Real

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

A friend of mine who lives in Santa Monica made a bet in 2000 with a friend that on December 31, 2025, he could call a robot taxi to pick them up and take them and their wives out to dinner, with the loser paying. It’s one of the great bets for the amount of discussion it has drawn over the last quarter of a century from third parties like myself. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
The Curse of Toumaï

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

Educated 21st Century people tend to assume that race isn’t scientific because they hold a view of science derived mostly from physics. Science, in the conventional wisdom, must provide answers that are clear-cut, certain, authoritative, inarguable, with no room for differing opinions. If categories are less than utterly hard-edged, then they can’t be Scientific. Of course, even physics isn’t really like that.
In Contrast, How Many Famous Films Are Based on Famous Novels?

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

Reversing my approach in my earlier post “Do Famous Novels Make Famous Films” in which I saw how many novels that made the 1998 Modern Library Top 100 list had been adapted into excellent films (a fair number, but perhaps less than you’d expect), today I’m starting with the Internet Movie DataBase top 100 rated films and then looking up their printed word sources. As I mentioned, the IMDB film ratings are skewed toward the tastes of younger males who are really into rating things.
Happy 5th Anniversary of the Racial Reckoning

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

What’s wrong with this fifth anniversary George Floyd celebration graph in the New York Times on a topic I wrote about far more lucidly in Taki’s Magazinelast week? Notice that they put the vertical line denoting the effect of the beginning of the George Floyd racial reckoning on May 25, 2020 on homicides in the wrong year: between 2020 and 2021 when it should, of course, be between 2019 and 2020?
Do Famous Novels Make Famous Films?

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

People love to argue over whether the book is better than the movie or vice-versa. I got interested instead in asking about examples of where both the book and the movie were really good (e.g., The Maltese Falcon, Gone With the Wind, Lord of the Rings, and A Clockwork Orange). I decided to look into the question of whether a great novel makes for a great film systematically by comparing a list of acclaimed novels to the ratings of their cinematic adaptations.
Is Harvard Obeying the Supreme Court?

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

Trump is currently waging war on Harvard, so let’s look at some data:In the spring of 2023, Harvard, using affirmative action (as approved by the 1978 Bakke decision), admitted a freshman class that later that year it announced was 14% black. Similarly, Harvard’s neighbor MIT announced in 2023 that its new freshman class, no doubt admitted using affirmative action, was 15% black. This Substack is reader-supported.
The War on Trees

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

An interesting question is why fashions in visual taste change over time. For instance, why did architecture become less elaborate and more streamlined in the 1930s, and then suddenly after WWII accelerate this previously refreshing trend to brutalist extremes? I find stylistic trends in golf course architecture to be intellectually interesting because golf course design seems about as isolated from other art forms as you can get.