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Can You Identify the Races of America?

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

There’s a new American biobank called the All Of Us project that is collecting DNA for medical research purposes from a diverse set of Americans in order to get around the traditional problem that white people tend to be more willing to volunteer for scientific tracking than other groups, so most of the existing DNA data is for whites.
1973: When Eugenics Stopped Working

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

In today’s Kentucky Derby, Sovereignty upset Journalism (which sounds like some kind of omen that would appeal to Curtis Yarvin). From the Louisville Courier-Journal:Every horse running in Kentucky Derby 2025 is a descendant of this racing legendStephanie Kuzydym… In fact, a search of pedigrees shows every horse [there were 19 entrants] running in the 151st Kentucky Derby is a descendant of Secretariat.
Does femininity exist in other species?

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

My wife is slightly disappointed that our girl dog isn’t at all girly. She has no feminine traits, but all the canine ones. If you were going to make a cartoon version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 1958 musical Flower Drum Songstarring dogs, you’d have to rewrite our dog’s big showstopper as “I Enjoy Being a Dog.”This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Has the "Bell Curve" taboo doomed affirmative action?

1 week ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

The most realistic argument in favor of racial preferences for African-Americans is that under colorblind meritocracy standards of admission and hiring, elite institutions would feature four-fifths or nine-tenths fewer African-Americans than they do now. The test score gap at the right edge of the Bell Curve is just that severe. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Trump's Disparate Impact Executive Order

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

It’s interesting how little mainstream media attention has been devoted to the Trump Administration’s April 23rd Executive Order against the use of the disparate-impact liability concept in civil rights enforcement. For example, the New York Times has run one sentence on the news in the week since:Another restricts the use of the so-called disparate impact rule, which civil rights groups have long said is an important tool for showing discrimination against minorities.
Are Indonesians the world's most flourishing people?

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

From the New York Times opinion page:The Happiest Country in the World Isn’t What You ThinkApril 30, 2025By Byron Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Brendan CaseDr. Johnson and Dr. VanderWeele are social scientists who are directing a five-year research project about global human well-being on which Dr. Case is collaborating. According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, which was released last month, the happiest country in the world is Finland, trailed closely by Denmark, Iceland and Sweden.
50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

“After America was shamefully run out of Vietnam, people lost their conviction about almost everything.”— Bob Dylan, opening line of Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Revue about Dylan’s mid-1970s “Tangled Up in Blue” era tour. For some reason, there doesn’t appear to be an online video of Dylan saying this. Some random thoughts on the Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago on April 30, 1975.
Here's an idea so crazy it just might work!

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

Back on April 9th, I wrote in Taki’s Magazine:A fundamental problem with nationalism is that it tends to pit natural nationalists against each other in stupid spats, when they’d be better off forming loose coalitions against globalists.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a teen.

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

Opinion journalism used to be a rather gray-bearded job. Reporters would spend years sitting through school board meetings before getting their own column. When their personalities started to wear thin, columnists might then get kicked upstairs to the editorial board. Editorial writing was prestigious, but expected to be slightly dull. Youth responded by paying more attention to music than to politics, except during the Vietnam War draft. This Substack is reader-supported.
Latest Rationalization: Race Doesn't Exist, But Subraces Do

2 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Steve Sailer

Most every field of study, whether scientific or humanistic, witnesses disputes between lumpers and splitters, a distinction that traces back to a letter written by Charles Darwin in 1857: “Those who make many species are the ‘splitters’ and those who make few are the “lumpers.”Who is right, lumpers or splitters? I dunno. In general, both tendencies can be useful under different circumstances. For example, are you against building hydroelectric dams?