Archive for the ‘Interviews’ category

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John Derbyshire

September 26, 2009

 
John Derbyshire is a conservative writer best known for being a contributer to National Review.  He’s the author of a novel entitled Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, four books on science/mathematics and co-author of one on sailing.  His latest is We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, scheduled for release September 29th.  See the my [...]

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Paul Gottfried

June 26, 2009

 Paul Gottfried is a professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College.  He’s written a number of books on the American conservative movement, the history of political thought and what he calls the managerial state in addition to countless articles in English, French, German and Italian.  I reviewed Gottfried’s Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt here.  I [...]

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Richard Nisbett

June 24, 2009

Richard Nisbett is a social psychology professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.  His PhD is from Columbia University.  He’s the author of numerous books, including The Geography of Thought, which I reviewed here.    His most recent work is Intelligence and How To Get It, in which he argues for the importance of [...]

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Richard Lynn

June 16, 2009

Richard Lynn received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and since then has worked as a lecturer of psychology at the University of Exeter and a professor of psychology at the University of Ulster and the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.  He continues a productive career after five decades and more than eleven books.  Lynn is credited with discovering [...]

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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 [...]