Archive for May 2009

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They Were Right

May 27, 2009

Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant
By Johnathan Peter Spiro
487 pp. University Press 2009
For those of us in the world of ideas and with views outside of the mainstream, contemporary orthodoxy is so stifling that sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that there was a time when things were different.  [...]

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Geoffrey Miller

May 27, 2009

Geoffrey Miller is a psychology professor at the University of New Mexico. He got his BA from Columbia in 1987 and his Ph.D in cognitive psychology from Stanford University in 1993.  In addition to being an important figure in the world of evolutionary psychology, he’s the author of two books, The Mating Mind: How Sexual [...]

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Affirmative Action in Modern America

May 26, 2009

The Affirmative Action Hoax: Diversity, the Importance of Character and Other Lies
By Steven Farron
405 pp. Steven Locks Press 2005
Affirmative action is extremely unpopular with American whites across the political spectrum.  Americans generally tend to take liberals at their word when they say that race shouldn’t matter and healthy people don’t support discriminating against themselves.  Mitigating [...]

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Alternative to the Modern World: Too Un-PC to Think Through

May 25, 2009

Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
By Geoffrey Miller
384 pp. Viking Adult 2009
The modern world is a mixed blessing.  The positive aspects are quite self-evident to everybody but the craziest of leftists.  The negative ones need some explaining.  Take your average woman with an IQ of 100.  In prehistoric times she works no more than 20 [...]

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“So What?”

May 25, 2009

Why Race Matters
By Michael Levin
415 pp. New Century Foundation 2005
Behind all the muddle, there are two main questions when it comes to the the topic of whether races have important inherent behavioral and cognitive differences.  Is it true, and if yes, so what?  Do such findings have any place in public discourse or policy making?  That’s [...]