White Women and Affirmative Action

When white people voice opposition to affirmative action, it is sometimes claimed that this is hypocritical or problematic because white women have benefited more than any other group from affirmative action. Generally, this claim is made in popular press on the basis of no serious evidence. For instance, Moore (2022), writing in "Teen Vogue" claimed …

Discrimination and Gay Suicide Rates

In this article I will argue that discrimination is at best a very partial explanation of why it is that gay people have higher rates of suicide than do straight people. To begin with, it's worth noting that most acts which constitute discrimination, ostracizing someone, insulting someone, emotionally or physically hurting someone, etc., are essentially …

Are Hispanic Americans Becoming Republicans?

Recently, some data has been released which has caused people to think that Hispanic Americans are going to vote republican in the 2022 and 2024 elections at greater rates than they have in recent history. This would be quite a significant change. Based on NYT exit polling, between 1972 and 2016 the Hispanic vote for …

The Unreliability of Rationally Formed Beliefs

Imagine there are ten people trying to guess the number of balls in a jar. Broadly speaking, these people could be divided into three groups of people using different methods to figure this out. Despite these groupings, ten different answers are given. Each person felt that their method produced the correct answer, that the other …

Critiquing Charles Murray on Changing IQ Gaps

In his new book, and in recent interviews, Charles Murray makes the claim that the Black-White IQ gap has shrunk to around 12 points, having fallen between the 1970s and mid 1980s and remained roughly stagnant since. In this article, I will explain why I think he is wrong. First, let's look at the graph …

How Bad Has the US Economy Become for Regular People? (1970 – 2020)

For the last fifteen years or so, economic populism has become increasingly popular among both the political left and right. This rise has gone hand in hand with the proliferation of a narrative which says that the economic gains in this country have gone exclusively to elites since the 1970s while the  incomes of regular …

On Fagan and Holland’s Culture Fair Tests of Intelligence

This article concerns a form of intelligence test devised in the 2000s which supposedly measures intelligence but lacks the cultural bias normally contained within IQ tests and, as a result, shows that American races do not actually differ in mean intelligence or that, to the degree they do, this is due to cultural factors rather …

Race, IQ, and Brain Size

In this article I'll argue that the research on race, brain size, and IQ, constitutes a significant line of evidence supporting a genetic model of racial IQ differences. But before turning directly to that topic we need to differentiate between research on phrenology and research on brain size. Phrenology was largely concerned with predicting people's …

On Transgenderism

[Note: this article is being published in 2021 but was written in 2019. Some sections caused a several year delay, but I've concluded that I won't finish them anytime soon and so have just removed them. They may constitute the contents of a future article.] The last decade has seen a radical increase in the …

Evidence of Voter Fraud in the 2020 US Presidential Election

In this article, I will argue that there are many lines of evidence the combination of which justifies us thinking that significant voter fraud occurred in the 2020 US election which increased the chances of Joe Biden winning in key swing states. Before turning specifically to the 2020 election, it is important to note that …