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2 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
As I may have mentioned once or twice over the last quarter century, a friend of mine in Santa Monica, a self-driving car optimist, made a bet in 2000 with a self-driving car pessimist that on New Year’s Eve 2025, he’d be able to call a robot taxi to take them and their wives out to dinner. The odds have swung back and forth over the last 25 years, and as recently as 2023, he estimated his chances of winning as under 50%.
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2 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
American intellectuals are not supposed to know much, if anything, about race gaps in intelligence and crime.
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2 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
Are differences in American firearm homicide rates driven more by differences in places (as U. of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig implies in his new book Unforgiving Places, which New Yorker reviewer Malcolm Gladwell believes with his usual guileless fervency) or by differences in people?
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2 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
I like the donut shop on the right of the video with the giant donut on the roof. There are only a few left in Southern California. There used to be a couple of dozen giant donut donut shops when I was a small boy. They were very appealing to an illiterate four year old. I’d demand that my long-suffering mother take me to the giant donut donut shop. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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3 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
The Supreme Court’s 9-0 Ames decision this week in which the Justices finally cleared up a 44-year-long dispute among federal circuit courts, with five of the 12 districts holding that whites, men, and straights should be discriminated against in discrimination law, has mostly elicited rather baffled commentary in the mainstream media.
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3 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
I wanted to return to analyzing the growing conventional wisdom that violent crime in American big cities is restricted to tiny geographies, a streetcorner here, an alley there. For example, Malcolm Gladwell burbled in The New Yorker this month:Malcolm GladwellA staff writer and the best-selling author of “The Tipping Point” and other booksSomething that has always fascinated me about criminology is how much turmoil the field seems to be in.
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3 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the name of the USNS Harvey Milk, an oiler named after the assassinated gay rights activist, replaced with something more appropriate for a “warrior culture.” On the other hand, note that the Harvey Milk is an unarmed supply ship with a civilian crew: that’s the distinction between USNS-prefixed supply ships and USS-prefixed warships. The USNS Harvey Milk is one of the John Lewis class of oilers.
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3 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
Well, it looks like we’re going to talk about Jeffrey Epstein again:Although Musk appears to be trying to walk things back as of Thursday evening. A few things I know about Jeffrey Epstein:This guy I met had once been a high school student interning for an extremely famous lawyer. Epstein would drop by and shoot the breeze with the kid while waiting around to talk to the celebrated lawyer. He said that for a rich and powerful man, Epstein sure seemed to have a lot of time on his hands.
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3 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
One of my best veteran commenters, Henry Canaday, has authored an important paper about America in the 21st Century. You can request a copy of his study at his Linked-Inpage. From Governing:This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Murder and Population Decline: A Troubling Urban LinkageAn economist is making the case for such a correlation, and it carries a ring of plausibility. Sept.
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3 weeks ago | 
stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer
One of the craziest things about America since the 1960s is that until today, nobody knew for sure if whites, men, and heterosexuals enjoyed equal rights under civil rights law or not. Federal appeals courts had ruled differently on the question. Thus, in five-twelfths of the country, whites, men, and heterosexuals were — until this morning — official legal Untermenschen when it came to the right to sue over discrimination.