If you"d asked me at the peak of public cynicism about giant oil companies"say, 1975"if within a quarter of a century a Democratic administration would allow Exxon and Mobil to merge into ExxonMobil, I"d have assumed you were nuts. After all, Exxon (formerly the Standard Oil ...
One of the surprises in Thomas Piketty's best seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century is how grating the Frenchman's prose style turns out to be. Granted, Piketty has valid reasons for being perpetually outraged at his fellow economists" ignorance and cupidity. In this post-1968 era in ...
As the professional golf season crests this week at the U.S. Open, it's worth noting that the game, while still growing in popularity among the robber barons of ex-communist countries like China and Russia, has been in long-term decline in the United States since the 2001 recession. Although ...
The conventional wisdom about how race is just a social construct is back in the news with the endless excoriations of Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History. Sadly, the term "social construct" is usually used as an excuse to stop thinking: just announce ...
Denunciatory reviews of Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History have typically fallen into two general categories: "¢ Well, nobody believes that race has no biological reality and is just a social construct, so the first half of the book, while accurate, ...
Predictably, responses to veteran New York Times genetics reporter Nicholas Wade's new book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History are already starting to break down along ethnic lines. For example, the quite intelligent and extremely hostile anthropologist Jonathan Marks, who ...
Like many pundits opining upon French economist Thomas Piketty's new book about how the rich always get richer and something has to be done about it, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, I haven"t actually read it. But that's not my fault: I blame capitalism! The capitalist system didn"t ...
As the topic of race continues to pop up in the news now and then, what with the Los Angeles Clippers imbroglio and whatnot, it's worth reconsidering the conventional wisdom on the subject, which has congealed into: "Race does not biologically exist because, uh ... Science!" Nicholas Wade, ...
As the years roll on through the Obama Era and the evidence accumulates that the failure of blacks to catch up has less and less to do with white racism, the American media has become increasingly obsessed with pounding the drums over the sins of white people's forefathers in the ever more ...
Economic historian Gregory Clark, a Glaswegian now at UC Davis, has been extending a main channel of British science into the 21st Century. His new book, The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility is another milestone in the revitalization of the human sciences after their ...
