Peonage, in which workers are bound to their jobs by debts to their employers, is a traditional curse of Latin American cultures. Perhaps inevitably, as the United States merges demographically with Mexico, Latin-style economic arrangements have been reemerging in the United States. For example, ...
What's the worst college in America in terms of taking in kids from rich families and turning out young adults who, despite all their privileges, still won"t earn very much? By one way of counting, the biggest loser is Middlebury College in the Vermont ski country, site of the recent Charles ...
With America's 16-year-old war in Afghanistan back in the news as Defense Secretary James Mattis hints that he"ll be sending in perhaps 4,000 more U.S. troops, Brad Pitt's new movie on Netflix, War Machine, could be of interest. Pitt plays a lightly fictionalized version of "Obama's ...
The insightful blogger who goes by the moniker Spotted Toad has created a series of charts explaining the 2016 Electoral College results as a result of average home price in each state. The pattern is much the same as it has been in every election since 2000: In states where younger white people ...
The extraordinary decline in the cost of sequencing a whole human genome, from $10 million in 2008 to $1,400 by late 2015, means that in the coming years science will almost certainly be able to answer the Charles Murray question: Are some of the gaps in average IQ among the races at least partly ...
What if Charles Murray is right? What if some of the various racial gaps in cognitive performance are due to genetics? Would that be the end of the world? It is considered appropriate to hyperventilate as if you believe so. On the other hand, what if Murray is wrong and his best critic, James ...
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Increasingly, social-grievance jihadis are getting themselves worked up over casting decisions in movies, TV shows, plays, and even operas, labeling anything they disapprove of as "whitewashing." Granted, the number of beneficiaries of disputes over which celebrities will get which roles ...
Are campus leftists getting dumber? It sure seems that way. For example, a black activist stabbed four students yesterday at the University of Texas, murdering one. That's just kind of vile and moronic. The trend is the reverse of a half century ago when the radicals tended to outwit the ...
Lately, American higher education is notoriously prone to tantrums. Two more academic meltdowns last week raise connected questions: First, are scholars allowed to suggest any explanation for racial disparities other than that White People Are Bad? Second, if they can"t say anything heretical ...
American academia markets itself as progressive if not downright radical. For example, here's a self-description by an assistant professor of Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College: She intervenes in popular visual media like reality television to interrogate how time moves and for whom to ...
