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The table below logs my occasional commentaries on the human sciences, which I have interpreted broadly to include cultural and political topics in which some human-sciences issue is strongly relevant.
We live at a time when the human sciences are advancing very fast. If you want to make informed commentary on society and culture, you must try to keep up. I do my best; but whenever I think I have attained a good comprehensive overview, someone brings something entirely new to my attention. However, since 95 percent of the human-sciences commentary in the general press could fairly be described as wishful thinking steeped in a strong solution of ignorance, the competition is not fierce.
| Date | Place | Title | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | |||
| December 2018 | Academic Questions | The De-rehabilitation of Charles Murray | Our Cultural Revolution roller-coaster. |
| 2017 | |||
| August 8, 2017 | VDARE | Race Realism Has a Past. Does Race Denialism Have a Future? | My address to the 2017 American Renaissance conference. |
| 2015 | |||
| July 23, 2015 | VDARE | The Prescriptive Poverty of the Social Sciences | What is to be done? |
| February 19, 2015 | VDARE | Culturalists vs. Biologians | Where Is The American Harald Eia? |
| 2014 | |||
| December 3, 2014 | The Mencken Club | The Left and Human Nature | Does it even exist? |
| November 13, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | The Scariest Science | Reflections on medicine. |
| October 30, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | A Penny for Your Thoughts | Although they probably aren't worth it. |
| September 25, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | Four Billion Africans | Future population trends. |
| June 28, 2014 | VDARE | JayMan | New blogger on the block. |
| June 2014 | The American Spectator | Chasing Down the Ghost in the Machine | "Toward a Science of Consciousness": the 2014 Tucson conference. |
| May 22, 2014 | VDARE | Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance after one more week | Yet another review of reviews. |
| May 11, 2014 | VDARE | Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance after one week | My review of reviews. |
| May 1, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | On The Road | Two conferences in one week. |
| March 1, 2014 | VDARE | Island Race No More? | Taking a look at my genome. |
| February 20, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | Do Peas Have Souls? | Human exceptionalism, pro and con. |
| February 6, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | A Season of Naughty Books | Psst! Want a nice racy read about genetics? |
| 2013 | |||
| August 29, 2013 | VDARE | Cultural Marxists Can't Do Math | "Uncle Tim" Wise works his slide rule. |
| August 15, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Why We Can't Talk About IQ | Too much humanity gets in the way. |
| April 10, 2013 | VDARE | First Encounters of the Close Kind | When the races first met. |
| March 21, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Genes and Smarts | Understanding the fundamentals. |
| February 7, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Arriving Late to the HBD Party | Lefties discover the Dissident Right. |
| January 17, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | What, Me Worry? | Keeping up with the eggheads. |
| January 10, 2013 | VDARE | Is HBD Over? | A seed planted too soon? |
| 2012 | |||
| December 6, 2012 | Taki's Magazine | Dusting Off the Crystal Ball | What does the future hold? |
| June 28, 2012 | Taki's Magazine | Partying with the Right Side on the Left Coast | Sleepless from Seattle? Not me. |
| June 28, 2012 | VDARE | What's So Scary About Darwin? | The study of human biodiversity, and its opponents. |
| April 19, 2012 | Taki's Magazine | The Endless Pursuit of Happiness | Call no man happy until he's dead. |
| March 8, 2012 | Taki's Magazine | Life at Half Speed | Adventures in chemotherapy. |
| February 9, 2012 | CPAC 2012, Washington, D.C. | The Future of Elite Attitudes on Race | Contribution to a panel discussion. |
| January 5, 2012 | Taki's Magazine | Revulsion Transference. | Where does the disgust go? |
| 2011 | |||
| June 23, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Nature, Nurture, Nature, Nurture. | Swings and roundabouts in the human sciences. |
| June 9, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Twisty Colored Cancer Ribbons for All! | Me and my buboes. |
| June 2, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | The Shadow Science of Economics | Austrians the best of a bad lot. |
| May 12, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Old Age Wasted on the Old | Get some carpet slippers, Ulysses. |
| February 7, 2011 | National Review | Maternity and Tyranny | The Tiger Mom debate. |
| 2010 | |||
| October 13, 2010 | Taki's Magazine | "The Plague That Is Killing Our Youth" | The war against human nature grinds on. |
| July 23, 2010 | Taki's Magazine | When Parenting Fails | Nature trumps nurture again. |
| June 23, 2010 | NRO | Killing Private Enterprise | One start-up at a time. |
| June 8, 2010 | Taki's Magazine | Deconstructing Folk Metaphysics | Two cheers for intuition. |
| June 1, 2010 | NRO | Humanity's Past, Humanity's Future | Two steps forward in genomics. |
| April 26, 2010 | Taki's Magazine | The Rest Is Biology | What's the hardest problem in social science? |
| April 21, 2010 | NRO | "Conditional Cash Transfer" Flops in NYC | The program failed because America is the land of opportunity. |
| April 5, 2010 | University of Pennsylvania Law School |
Revisiting Race and Remedies: Should the Government Play A Role in Eliminating Racial Disparities in Education and Employment? |
I offer a wet blanket. |
| March 8, 2010 | Alternative Right | Mapping the Human Phenome | The DSM may help. |
| 2009 | |||
| November 3, 2009 | Taki's Magazine | Mixing It Up | Refusing to marry a black-white couple. |
| April 24, 2009 | NRO | The Husks of Dead Theories | Anti-White discrimination in the Connecticut firefighters case. |
| March 24, 2009 | NRO | Will Obama Kill Science? (Cont.) | If so, will if flee to Asia? |
| March 10, 2009 | Taki's Magazine | Citizenism, Inconvenient Truths, & Examined Life |
Steve Sailer and Sailerism. |
| 2008 | |||
| November 26, 2008 | Taki's Magazine | Equality: The Elusive Ideal | Biohistory and the Psychic Unity of Mankind. |
| October 7, 2008 | NRO | Will Obama Kill Science? | The threat to the human sciences from "cultural Marxism." |
| September 5, 2008 | Taki's Magazine | The Rapture for Nerds | Experts discuss the Singularity. |
| May 19, 2008 | Taki's Magazine | What's So Scary About Evolution? | For both right and left, a lot. |
| May 19, 2008 | National Review | Inside Story | The Tucson conference (written up). |
| April 9-13, 2008 | NRO | Toward a Science of Consciousness | The Tucson conference (blogged). |
| 2007 | |||
| November 26-27-28, 2007 | NRO | Race, IQ, and the Mainstream | It flares up again. |
| September 24, 2007 | NRO | Magical Thinking on I.Q. | If only it would go away. |
| July 2007 | New English Review | The I's Have It | Consciousness. |
| 2006 | |||
| December 2006 | NRO | The Dream Palace of Education Theorists |
Has any of them raised a kid? Or been one? |
| January 18, 2006 | NRO | Getting Off at Baltimore | Observations on suicide. |
| 2005 | |||
| November 7, 2005 | National Review | The Specter of Difference | Unwelcome results from genetics. |
| September 9, 2005 | (Not published) | You Can't Talk About That | You can't write about it, either. |
| February 16, 2005 | NRO | Metaphysics, Science, and Homosexuality |
What is the cause of homosexuality? |
| 2004 | |||
| December 13, 2004 | National Review | Our Crisis of Foundations | The waters that are under the earth. |
| November 22, 2004 | NRO | The Swelling Wave | The human sciences are coming to get you. |
| May 14, 2004 | NRO | Here To Stay | A cornucopia of homophobia. |
| October 15, 2004 | NRO | Too Much Reality | Tenth anniversary of The Bell Curve. |
| April 22, 2004 | NRO | Ditching Diversity | Will the elites dump diversity? |
| February 11, 2004 | NRO | The Dismal Science | Farm, factory, office, … then what? |
| 2003 | |||
| August 19, 2003 | NRO | Three Score and Ten | Who wants to live for ever? |
| July 29, 2003 | NRO | Straight Flight … | … from the gay ghetto. |
| June 25, 2003 | NRO | The One and the Many | It's not him, it's it. |
| 2002 | |||
| December 4, 2002 | NRO | Here's Lookin' At You, Kid — Not! |
Endo-, Meso-, and Ecto-morphs. |
| August 12, 2002 | NRO | Rolling the Biological Dice | Is there a plague in our future? |
| 2001 | |||
| July 23, 2001 | National Review | The Dream of A.I. | Prospects for artificial intelligence. |
| April 26, 2001 | NRO | It's Complicated | Too much to think about. |
| April 2, 2001 | National Review | A Poisonous Gift | Jane Fonda's donation to "gender studies." |
| February 27, 2001 | NRO | Eugenics Alive | Coming soon to a country near you. |
| February 1, 2001 | NRO | Stereotypes Aren't So Bad | What academic psychologists say about them. |
| 2000 | |||
| October 14, 2000 | Science News | Dirty Story | The more dirt, the less hurt. |