Steve Sailer
Steve Sailer is a journalist, columnist for VDARE.com, and founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals. Steve blogs regularly at isteve and has recently published his first book, America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance.
Hollywood
Lincoln: A Tall Man in a Small FilmNovember 14, 2012 With his unimpeachable performance in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (which opens |
Cultural Caviar
Hormonal PoliticsNovember 07, 2012 I’m writing my weekly column the evening before Election Day for you to read |
The Obamasphere
Making Sense of Obama: The MuslimistOctober 31, 2012 Who is the real Barack Obama? It’s an odd question to ask about an incumbent |
Cultural Caviar
It’s Tough Being ToughOctober 24, 2012 No journalist this century has played a more persistent role in forging a new |
Hollywood
Post-ApocalyptoOctober 17, 2012 Among literary critics, a controversy has been raging tepidly over what purpose |
Home Front
American Birthrates: Quantity v. QualityOctober 10, 2012 We live in an age, we are often informed, of Big Data. Every facet of life is |
Hollywood
The Scoop on LooperOctober 03, 2012 Rian Johnson’s critically acclaimed Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Deep Thoughts
Google GaydarSeptember 26, 2012 Our era’s dominant narrative focuses lavishly on gays, who are portrayed as |
Hollywood
A Masterful Acting ClinicSeptember 19, 2012 The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in a period |
Mistaken Identity
How to Pass: Past and PresentSeptember 12, 2012 Last week, the press whipped itself into a frenzy of anticipation for Barack |
Hollywood
How Robots Push Our ButtonsSeptember 05, 2012 Robot & Frank is a clever little sci-fi dramedy about a semi-senile old coot |
Review
Dream Job?August 29, 2012 The last thing I had expected of Dinesh D’Souza’s first Michael Moore-type |
Sports
Breaking Old Ground at AugustaAugust 22, 2012 The Augusta National Golf Club, the only course to host a major championship |
Sports Myths
The Last Hurdle in SportsAugust 15, 2012 I turned on the TV and saw a new reality show with an intriguing premise: How |
Nature vs. Nurture
My Olympic Freestyle 100-Meter Q&AAugust 08, 2012 For fifteen years, I’ve been writing long analyses of how the data found in |
Cultural Caviar
Can Evolution Account for Art?August 01, 2012 In this Darwinian age, it has become popular for thinkers to try to dream up |
Hollywood
Projecting Talent Onto CriminalsJuly 25, 2012 Are criminals in real life ever even one-tenth as fascinating as they are in |
Conspiracy
That’s What They Want You to ThinkJuly 18, 2012 Oliver Stone finally has an entertaining movie—Savages—out in theaters |
Eureka!
Silicon Valley’s Two DaddiesJuly 11, 2012 With Silicon Valley back on top of the world, it’s time to point out a bit of |
History
Declamations of IndependenceJuly 04, 2012 Every Fourth of July, a heretical question nags: Would it have been so bad if |
Cultural Caviar
The Original Nature BoysJune 27, 2012 One of the biggest changes of my lifetime has been the decline in the speed of |
Real Estate
The Politics of TopographyJune 20, 2012 The struggles of even the best-connected California celebrities to nail down |
Hollywood
Twilight of the ÜbermenschJune 13, 2012 You probably haven’t heard of Get the Gringo, a recent Lethal Weapon-like |
Cultural Caviar
The Music of the SpheresJune 06, 2012 To anybody who saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as a child, |
Deep Thoughts
Occam’s Butter KnifeMay 30, 2012 MIT’s Daron Acemoglu is a rock star among economists, one of the ten most |
Lit Crit
Social Science v. Social EngineeringMay 23, 2012 In his impressive first book, Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of |