Obama and The Bell Curve

October 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the most hated book in the history of the social sciences, the 845-page The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class ...

Bring Back our Balls!

In 1974, a daredevil walked across a tightrope that connected the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. It was called “the artistic crime of the century.” The DA ...

Victoria Nuland

Tell the Truth and Don”€™t Apologize

I suppose the biggest topical subject of the moment is the Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, sport has never been my thing. I can"€™t catch, throw, or hit, have precious little ...

Mitt Romney

Minorities Rising

Amy Chua, the Chinese Mom America Loves to Hate, follows up her 2011 bestseller The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother with a new book coauthored with her more laid-back husband and ...

Cain Velasquez

Less Than Supreme

I thought I’d stumbled into a black hole when I read about the white supremacist who had just received the shock of his life on a television talk show. A generation ago, ...

Uncle Sam, Give Us Your Guns

Protected by a hundred supersonic fighter jets, ten thousand armored vehicles with machine-gun turrets, and twenty million fully functional military tanks (many of them equipped ...

Coney Island, N.Y.

10 Facts About Brooklyn Natives

While bemoaning Brooklyn's yuppification, many say, "€œI miss old New York,"€ but the same way Germans idolize Native Americans they"€™ve never met, outsiders worship ...

10 White People Problems

"€œWhite People Problems"€ is a loaded term that combines a facetious reference to white privilege with the accusation that we"€™re all pampered ingrates. Never mind that ...


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