So according to the NYT, homophobia is ok, as long as it's commies doing it. Why am I not surprised?

"And one of the architects of the JFK assasination. Every American should read JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass. I would stake my last dollar that it is all true."

Ah, that's exactly what they WANT you to think…

"Native Americans (whose DNA is indistinguishable from East Asians"

Anyone who claims that American Indians and East Asians are "indistinguishable" is deranged. Full stop. Go back to reading your Gould and Lewontin.

Is anyone surprised that the takeaway from this article is “People are fungible. A Mexican is a Belgian is a German is an American. And oh, yeah, Hispanic immigration is good, and we need more of it”.

I have no idea if Unz or Lynn is right, but the word for Mr. Unz’s article is “tendentious”, as indeed is Lynn. We need light on this subject, not heat, and Mr. Unz’s ongoing love letter to Hispanics isn’t helping matters any.

Yes, the media will spin this as an Obama victory no matter what happens. We'll se if the American people fall for it.

The Republican Party needs to sign this guy up.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again – anyone who takes Bryan Caplan seriously needs to have his head examined. Caplan is an open borders fanatic and a pacifist, so any society that adopted his policy prescriptions would perish pretty much immediately. Caplan's only saving grace is that he dislikes Communism, but so does anyone who isn't a loon, so that's not saying much.

They're hugging each other. What the Hell is that supposed to prove? I saw my (very non-feminist) Dad hug my (very non-feminist) Mom that way a hundred times. Once again, this illustrates the fact that the Obamas are a mirror that other people project their hopes and dreams onto.

I agree with Udolpho. I'm no big fan of Taleb, but there's no doubt that he got the better of this exchange.

With regard to British views of the American military; yes, there's a long history of this, primarily stemming from the Brit superiority complex. In both WWI and WWII, those who fought against the U.S. military had a much greater regard for it than did the British (read Rommel's writings, or Ludendorff's). Of course, this attitude led to such British military triumphs as Bunker Hill, New Orleans, and Lundy's Lane, but it was not confined to Americans (see Isandlewana, Chilianwallah, Balaklava, etc.) Of course, this arrogance is also what built the Empire, so…

For Lord's sake.

With all due respect, Christianity is not pacifist in theory, and throughout most of its history, it has not been pacifist in practice. In fact, the “evidence…is fairly strong that from A.D. 170 onward there were significant members of Christians in the [Roman] army, and ‘the numbers of these Chrisitans began to grow, despite occassional efforts to purge Christians from the army [by the Romans], through the second and third centuries into the age of Constantine. We may estimate the number of Christian soldiers at the beginning of the fourth century in the tens of thousands’” (p.112 of Prof. J. Daryl Charles’ War, Peace, and Christianity. Also, see the Bible for additional verification.

"Why, that general theme hasn't come up here since 1 whole posts ago"

Then quit reading it, dipshit. No one asked you.

"Most Democrats aren’t “anti-White.”

Hoa anyone can read the crowing of certain Democrats after the last electiom, and say this with a straight face, beats me.

Sabermetrics is kind of like Michael Jackson, the Laffer Curve, and Adam Smith ties; they were really cool back in the '80's, and they probably all made some positive contributions, but it's time to move on. The bloom is very much off the Sabermetrics rose, no matter what Nate Silver thinks.

Musharraf was still better than the nitwits/Taliban opening act that is running Pakistan now. Admittedly, that's a low bar to clear, but still…

Toddy Cat

Wilkinson is a buffoon. Why anyone gives a rat's patoot about what he thinks is a mystery.

But he did get "Vibrant" in there really quick. That ought to count for something.

"Part of me wants to scientifically rebut the IQ-related claims of Herrnstein, Murray, Watson and Richwine"

Go for it, dumbass. I'd like to see you try.

Yes, and it was obvious. I mean lack of drinking in Victorian England? Really? REALLY?!?

Yeah, what happened to a few Poles in New Zealand seventy years ago is really germane to millions of Hispanics in the U.S. today. If this is the best the pro-invasion people can do, they're really desperate.

Let's be clear – the Church never regarded the death penalty as "inherently wrong". St. Ambrose defended capital punishment at the very beginning of the Dark Ages, and this never changed – the only debate was as to when the application of the death penalty was just. Also, there is plenty of support for the death penalty in the New Testament (Romans 13, 1-4, anyone?) and there was also plenty of execution and torture under the late Roman Empire, just read a history of the period. The thesis expressed in the essay above is interesting, but flawed.

Peter,
Ambrose did not approve of violence in self-defense, but he DID support the death penalty, which is what I stated. They are two different things.

"The death penalty had support from early Catholic theologians; Saint Ambrose encouraged members of the clergy to pronounce and even carry out capital punishment; Saint Augustine answered objections to capital punishment rooted in the fifth commandment in The City of God. Augustine's argument is as such: "Since the agent of authority is but a sword in the hand [of God], it is in no way contrary to the commandment `Thou shalt not kill' for the representative of the state's authority to put criminals to death".

Marxism? Open Borders? Is this guy nuts? Well, yes, he is. And if Christianity favors open borders, it's odd that this has only been noticed for the last fifty years or so. No one in 1924 thought that immigration restriction was anti-Christian.Did someone find some lost book of the Bible or something that I missed?

I'm not a big fan of Margolis, but he's dead right on this. Considering how a lot of these same people couldn't wait to sell us out to the Commies in the Cold War, the current anti-Russian hysteria is mind-boggling. Of course, I suppose that this whole business is some sort of milestone; the American Left finally met a KGB agent that they didn't like.

Wesley Clark was a classic example of the Peter Principle in action. He was a great lower ranking officer, but he simply did not have the judgement to be a general, as the Pristina incident shows. Another prie example of the U.S. military's deeply flawed "up or out" strategy.

Unlike a lot of liberals, Applebaum seems to be genuinely horrified by Communism and it's record of mass murder, and that's all to the good. But someone should tell the poor woman that 1)the USSR fell back in 1991, and 2) Harry, Ike , and Ron did not stand up to the Commies in the name of gay rights. And while we're at it, someone should tell NATO as well

If the New York Times had hated Communism half as much as it hates non-Communist Russia today, the Cold War would have ended sometime in 1964.

And for whatever reason, there’s nothing like the subject of nutrition to bring out sloppy thinking in people. As a friend of mine once observed, people seem to desperately want food taboos, and they seem upset that the Western Christian tradition doesn’t really have any, so people keep trying, only in the name of “health” or suchlike. Labeling otherwise totally unobjectional foods as “pure” or “unclean” seems to fill some sort of deep human need.

Of course it's true, the USSR and the Free World waged incessant economic warfare against each other, and tried to hurt each other in any way possible. This is neither crazy nor a scandal. It's not like the USSR didn't have a lot of Active Measures going against the West, as well. They didn't call it the Cold WAR for nothin' Annie. What the Hell is the matter with people today?

The next few weeks are going to be fun. Race deniers are going insane over this thing.

"The average IQ of a group, a team or a race matters little, if at all. What counts is how well they communicate, collaborate and exchange ideas."

Pure, flat-out assertion. It may be true, but is there any evidence of this at all/ Or is this just what Ridley wants to believe is true?

Get this misdreavus guy a blog, stat!

“The murder rate for blacks is 35 or so per 100 000 black people (2010). Thats tiny”

Tiny? Compared to what? Mexico has a murder rate of about 20/100,000, and the country is coming unglued. Brazil had a murder rate of 33/100,000, and practically declared martial law. Yeah, the black murder rate is lower than it was in the 1970’s but that tells you more about crime in the 70’s than anything else.

You remind me of that quote from “Prizzi’s Honor”

Jack Nicholsen (to Kathleen Turner) “So, how many guys have you whacked?”
Turner – “Not many”
Jack – “How many is not many?”
Turner – 25, 30.
Jack – “That’s NOT MANY ?!?”
Turner – Well, not considering the size of the general population”

Compared to rates for other groups in the U.S., 35/100,000 is high. No, it’s probably not as good a job of it as Genghis Khan or Stalin would have done, but still…

“The overall rate has dropped significantly in pretty much everything since then. The incarceration rate has also begun to fall.”

This is true, so lucky you – for now…

True, but J said “stupid comments” not comments he disagreed with, and I think that Jayman like to argue too much to ever create an echo chamber. I’m sure that if James Flynn or Brian White shows up and wants to dispute the hereditarian position, Jayman won’t censor them. Some guy who wants to call J a “race traitor” or some such BS – maybe not so much.

Never mind Cuba or Costa Rica, a lot of West African countries would be better off if they could achieve the levels of public health, public services, and efficiency of Haiti, and I'm not kidding.

At the risk of being politically incorrect, I'm sure that there are plenty of properly trained nurses, it's African management that's the problem. There's a parallel with military matters here: most African armies are a joke today, but with European officers, African askaris often performed in an outstanding manner. In WWII, Africans made fine soldiers and NCO's. Officers? Not so good…

I have no doubt that there are a lot of Zulus around who could manage an Impi of spearmen. The people in Liberia are not Zulus, and, in any case, managing the care of multiple Ebola patients is a somewhat different matter.

Besides, I don't think that you really want to say that the Zulu army, brave as it was. was as well managed as the British, do you? Because that would be really silly.

Of course, true universalist morality such as Christianity does not require that everybody be treated the same; it merely means that if something like murder or rape is wrong if I do it, it’s wrong if you do it too, and vice versa. Universal morality and Natural Law allow, indeed require, all sorts of distinctions to be made; between young and old, between men and women, and yes, between citizens and non-citizens. Of course, Caplan is neither a Christian nor a practicing Jew, so he wouldn’t understand this, and I often wonder where this “morality” he’s always appealing to comes from , except inside his own head.

Leftist rule of thumb: Whenever any biological entity is caught behaving badly, some other, more civilized or advanced biological entity is actually to blame. If leftists aren’t yet blaming attacks by one-celled animals on each other on intervention by multi-celled creatures, it’s only a matter of time until they do…

"protective factors"

Like what? I'll start doing the ASAP.

“There seems to be in many Americans a desperate desire to maintain a sense of superiority to somebody, anybody, in a world in which that superiority evaporates in the face of rising nations elsewhere.”

Of course, America is not superior to Latin America, which is why almost no one from Mexico or Colombia ever tries to get into the U.S. I mean, why would they, when things are going so well down there?

I enjoy your writing very much, but, with all due respect, you have a blind spot when it comes to this area, Mr. Reed. Certainly, Latin America is superior to many Third-World places, and many Latin American countries are well run compared to, say, Africa or the Middle East. But there is no doubt that the U.S., although in decline, is still far ahead of the average country of Latin America, according to just about every metric, and everyone knows it.

I have no doubt that Mexico is a fine country, in it’s own way. But I want to live in the United States. Why must my country be transformed into Mexico Norte?

Here is what the Catholic Encyclopedia has to say about immigration regulation:

“The legal control of migration began when it ceased to be collective and began to be individual. Laws have been passed preventing people from leaving their native land, and also, by the country of destination, forbidding or regulating entrance thereto. Extensive regulation has been found necessary applying to transportation companies and their agents, the means of transportation, treatment en route and at terminal points. The justification of public interference is to be found in the right of a nation to control the variations of its own population.”

People have a natural right to move, but this right is not absolute. The country on the receiving end has a right to regulate and control immigration to secure the general welfare of it’s people, the integrity of it’s culture, and it’s internal security. The current Catholic Catechism reaffirms this.

"Psychologists' naive interpretations of "intelligence" have been doing social harm for 80 years."

Like what? Correctly predicting that Civil Rights wouldn't automatically make blacks equal to whites? Correctly pointing out that intelligence has a lot to do with academic success? Correctly predicting that China had a lot of potential once it got rid of an insane economic system? Hurting lefties feelings in other ways? What?

“Agent Provocateur Draws Gun on Crowd After Being Outed at Berkeley Protests”

Because of course we all know that it was a white agent provocateur who called on the mob to “Burn this bitch down” at Ferguson. After all, it’s on video….

Try again, dimwit.

It also helps to realize that journalists, on the whole, are not very smart, at least not compared to your average scientist. In many cases, they really do not understand things like basic statistics, or the laws of thermodynamics.

Mr. Fanning makes some good points, but this would be a lot more convincing if it wasn’t peppered with leftist buzz words and questionable “facts”. I’d like to see a counterpoint article by a soldier who was in Mr. Fanning’s position who take the other side. I know that there are a lot of them out there.

Of course, this trend actually goes back to the late ’60’s – early 70’s, but DeLong has to identify the crucial year as 1979, because, as we all know, Reagan had a time machine, and the Carter years were so prosperous…

Even when the Democrats identify a real problem, they always think of scoring partisan points first. Not that Republicans are much better.

,” it is completely ludicrous to argue that the Western Allies could have conquered Germany had it been free to concentrate the bulk of its military assets to the west.”

Come now, Mr. Karlin. While I certainly appreciate that the Red Army was a titanic fighting force, and made a massive contribution to Allied Victory, by 1945, The United States had nuclear weapons. Game over. Just because some idiots underestimate the Russian contribution to victory doesn’t mean that we have to go to the opposite extreme.

To say that I don't agree with Cofnas is an understatement, but it's refreshing to have people who feel as he does lay it on the line, as opposed to the usual weasel words about, "well, I'm not in favor of censorship, but…..etc."

“the truth is that universities adopted them because that’s what most students want. ”

Care to put it to a vote on any university campus, pal?

I didn’t think so…

I don’t know anything about McCain, but a lot of the stories about Hoover being queer were KGB disinformation, and admitted as such. See http://www.petievich.com/index.html for details, as well as any good book on the KGB. Hoover certainly had his faults, but he deserves to be remember for what he was, not by a commie smear.

To be fair, lots of mestizo girls are very pretty in their teens, but they tend not to age well at all. Of course, this is also true of lower-class white girls. Many of the 30 year old land whales you see at Wal-Mart were really cute at sixteen. Kind of sad, really…

I don’t know anything about the situation in Crimea, but that “interview” of Babitsky was beyond belief. I’ve seldom seen such hostile, loaded questions, worthy of TASS in 1975, or MSNBC interviewing a Republican. And yeah, RT is propaganda, and Putin is no friend of free speech, but RFERL is American – we’re supposed to be better than that. Or maybe I’m just nostalgic for the days when we could call ourselves the “Free World” and mean it.

Just when I thought that nobody could possibly be amoral and deluded enough to applaud giving the plans for the most destructive weapon on earth to one of history’s great mass murderers, along comes Dyson and his defender, Matt. Would this argument have been valid had Fuchs and Pontecorvo been sharing the secrets of the atom with Hitler? According to the “logic” on display above, I guess so.

“pre-1964 days”

Oh, surely not! Not the dark days of low murder rates, low divorce rates, intact families, freedom of association, and civilizational self-confidence? Oh, please, anything but that!

“It is funnier to punch up, as the old saying goes, than to punch down,”

Old saying, my ass. I never even heard the phrase “punch up” until after Obama was elected. More rewriting of history by our repulsive SJW class…

"I am pro-gay marriage for the sole reason that I don't want to end up like my classmate's mother."

Were you pro-gay marriage ten years ago? Be honest with yourself. If you have changed your mind, do you ever wonder why?

As for your alleged "points" above, they hardly need be dignified with an answer, being the sort of special pleading that one expects from people who have already made up their mind, but look around, and compare the promiscuity stats, the VD stats, and mental illness stats of homosexuals with any of the above groups you named. I think that you'll be surprised.

Prediction; African population densities will never get that high. Something Terrible will happen first. My money's on a huge epidemic, but it could be massive war, total anarchy, or something else we haven't thought of, but it will happen. Africa is simply not capable of supporting anything like that density of population, and most Africans will be in no position to get to Europe.

As for African wildlife, I hope that there are plenty of them in zoos in Europe, America, and Asia, because there aren't going to be many left there…

I’ll grant Fred this much; if your country is destined to be overrun with an alien race, you could do worse than Mexicans. I’d by far rather live in Mexico than Nigeria or Saudi Arabia, or some nightmare combination of the two, which is what Europe is looking at. But I’d rather live in the United States. Thanks to guys like Fred, I don’t get that option.

Fred’s attitude seems to be that, well, letting Mexicans in was a mistake, but now that we’ve let them in, we might as well go the whole hog and let more in, which is somewhat like saying that those first four shots of tequila were a mistake, but now that you’ve done it, you might just as well go ahead and drink the whole quart. I guess this is what passes for logic down where Fred lives.

Well, Fred, you and Ron Unz are almost certainly going to get the future you want. I hope that it works out the way you think it will, I really do, because there’s no going back once it’s done. Too bad, the U.S. and Mexico were both nice countries once. I have a feeling Meximerica will combine the worst features of both…

All Gelman is saying is that when it come to diversity of race, gender, or sexual orientation, the benefits are self-evident and don’t need to be proved, but when it come to diversity of political viewpoint in predominantly leftist institutions, the benefits of diversity must be proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, by rigorous peer-reviewed research, no matter how much common sense might suggest the advantages of such diverse viewpoints.

In other words, diversity for thee but not for me. Also, see Jewish attitudes towards immigration with regard to Israel and the U.S.

I know that Gelman is a liberal, but I had thought that he had more integrity than this. What a buffoon.

If we recognize the right of any group to call any speech that they disapprove of "Hate Speech", and tell us that we are not permitted to speak on that account, the First Amendment is over.

Of course, the Left has never been big on the Bill of Rights anyway, so this attitude of theirs is not surprising. The First Amendment used to be the only part of the bill of rights the Left liked, good to see that they are finally being logically consistent…

You can find people who deny the Holocaust, the moon landings, and the Chinese famines of the late 1960’s who are as convincing as this guy, but that doesn’t make them right. Stalin’s mass murders are well documented in the archives of the NKVD/KGB itself. There can be a debate about exactly how many million people he killed, but not that it happened. I mean, who put all those mass graves all over the USSR, space aliens?

I can safely say that I have never seen the MSM this hysterical and mendacious, and I can remember both Reagan, and the Tet Offensive. They REALLY fear this guy, and that's good news for us…

"Toddy Cat, you have obviously never heard a BBC report on UKIP"

No, I've been denied that pleasure, but I'm sure that it's every bit as bad as you say…

"in the USSR Trump would have been killed by now by the government as a lesson to those who dare to speak out."

True, I don't think that America is a Communist country either, but we're a lot closer than we were 20 years ago. I wouldn't rule out Trump being assassinated by a "mentally ill" person sometime between now and election day. I hope to God that I'm wrong, but this country is starting to give me the creeps.

That David Brooks is considered some kind of a "conservative" at all tells you all that you need to know about the state of the Right in this country. Quisling, collaborationist suck-a**…

I would be willing to bet that this “research” will fall into the 50 – 70% of Social Science papers that cannot be replicated by non-believers.

Mil-Tech is right. Polls notwithstanding, I'd be willing to bet that Trump finishes either first or a very strong second in Iowa today.

He’s probably right in this case, but to be honest, I trust Cuddy at least as much as I trust Gelman. Cuddy may be wrong, but she’s at least gives the impression of trying to find something true. Gelman’s research is generally correct, but he never finds anything that contradicts the Narrative, because he seems to know exactly where not to look, and what not to look for. A slippery character, sort of a statistical Noam Chomsky, who also know exactly what not to look for.

I hated and still hate Communism, and have no particular love for the current Russian government, but… Jesus Christ, military bases in the Baltics?!? Do these idiots have any idea how the Russians would react to that? They are paranoid anyway, and this would be the equivalent to Russia putting bases in Mexico, and enrolling Canada in the old Warsaw Pact.

Either NR actually wants WWIII, or they are dangerous idiots. Or possibly both.

Gotta love that headquarters. Looks like the f*cking Ministry of Love in Orwell’s 1984…Remind me, who won the Cold War?

Murray is still starry-eyed about immigration. He recognizes that uncontrolled immigration is destroying the American working class, but, even in his WSJ editorial, he still has to pay homage to those "cheerful, optimistic, hardworking" immigrants, who "seem the most American of all". Obviously, Murray doesn't get out much these days, and his contact with immigrants is probably limited to his lawn service, and the staffs of the Georgetown ethnic restaurants he frequents.

Murray is a libertarian pro-immigration race-realist, which, it turns out, is like being a Zionist Nazi or a free-market Communist. There's a basic contradiction there, and Murray just won't face it…

McCain beat Bush in the New Hampshire primary by 18% Bush went on to win new Hampshire from Gore in the general election.

NATO made perfect sense immediately after WWII, with Europe in ruins, Stalin running the USSR, and the Nazis recently vanquished in Germany, but its time has passed, it should have been liquidated soon after the collapse of the USSR. Instead, it became an organization looking for a mission, and, as always, it found one, and not necessarily a good one.

It’s not 1948 anymore. Today, Europe is the second-largest economy on Earth, Putin is significantly less Communist than the current US President, and the German threat to Europe comes from the insane passivity of a Merkel, not the aggression of a Hitler. Time to wrap this organization up, it’s become the threat to the peace it was originally meant to protect.

And of course, with his tough on crime policies, Guiliani saved more black lives than BLM could in their wildest dreams, and the NYT knows it. Lying slime…

If this is true, this probably also explains the almost hysterical opposition of the Establishment to the candidacy of Donald Trump. For all his faults, does anyone doubt that Trump, outraged, would blow the lid off a scandal like this. Personally, I have my doubts, but there’s no doubt that the possibility exists.

Lots of Establishment types have told us that Trump is a “loose cannon”. They may mean more by that than we think.

There’s already a “safe zone” in Syria – that part of Syria controlled by Assad. I never thought I’d end up sticking up for this guy, but he’s so obviously the best of a bad lot in this conflict, it’s not even up for discussion. The lies of the American media complex are so mind-bending on this matter, it’s unbelievable.

I don’t get it…

As an American who very much likes France and wishes it well, I find this inexpressibly saddening, and somewhat surprising. I always knew that the French elites were rotten, traitorous, and short-sighted – almost all elites in the West are – but I always hoped that the French people, if given the chance, would repudiate this nonsense, a la Brexit/Trump. It looks like this was a mistake. Yes, the fish always rots from the head, but the rots also spreads downward, and it looks like this is what has happened here.

Houellebecq is looking more prophetic all the time…

“but there is little besides conjecture and anecdotal evidence to support it. …”

For “conjecture and anecdotal evidence” read “common sense and experience”…

If we were going to have a non–Christian President born outside the US, why couldn’t it have been Bibi instead of Barak?

A lot depends on what kind of movie we’re talking about. 1960’s and ’70’s “fluff” movies, like “The Pink Panther” or “The In-Laws”, or action-adventures like “The Man Who Would Be King” are still very watchable and enjoyable. However, any movie with “serious” pretensions form this period is absolutely unwatchable. Ditto TV shows; “Mannix”, Rockford Files” and “Green Acres” – still good. “Room 222 – not so much…

The NBA has also insisted, somewhat surprisingly, that its players stand for the Anthem, and has had a very low tolerance for BLM-type protests. While this has probably not brought a significant number of white NBA fans lost in the 1990’s back, it has probably prevented them from losing any of their remaining white fans, as well as that minority of Blacks who oppose the anthem protests (mostly older and/or veteran, I’d bet…)

“No person has a greater claim to the American dream than any other”

Of course, if this statement was followed to its logical conclusion, it would mean immediately ending all immigration from Mexico and replacing it with a global lottery, because Mexicans don’t have any more right to enter the US than anyone else, just because they happen to have had the good fortune to be born in a country that adjoins the US.

What do you want to bet this is not done?

“she still insisted she saw the flier.”

The scary thing is, had you given her a lie detector test, she probably would have passed. . Delusion is a powerful thing.

“I think there is this dormant, inherited potential.”

To quote Noam Chomsky (!) on “dormant, inherited potential” in animals (in this case language), “This is as likely as humans finding a species of flightless bird that was physically capable of flying, but was only waiting for humans to come along and teach it to fly.”

Animals are amazing, and, as it turns out, have much richer interior lives than we had thought. But, given the current replication crisis in the sciences, I’ll reserve judgement. This is just a bit too convenient.

Eisenhower was about the only president who really got anything useful out of the CIA, and even that’s debatable. Generally speaking, a lot of the CIA coups that the Left is always howling about were pretty much forgone conclusions anyway. Guys like Arbenz in Guatemala and Mossadegh in Iran were almost certain to be overthrown by their own militaries anyway, and a lot of what the CIA did was hand out checks to the wrong people, and stand around waiting to take credit for anything good that happened. About the only thing that saved us was that the NKVD/MGB/KGB wasn’t a whole lot better. This isn’t to say that they did nothing useful, or that the KGB was no threat, but a lot of the “Spy vs Spy Covert Ops” stuff in the Cold was was hype, especially after about 1965 or so.

Yes, well over 90% of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were in the USSR, Poland, or other Eastern European countries. These Jews came under Nazi rule when they had been over-run by the German Army, by which time it was too late to flee anywhere. U.S. immigration policy in all probability cost no Jewish lives, or at any rate very, very few.

But never let facts get in the way of a good narrative!

Yes, “Guns at Batasi” was a fantastic film, one of the best movies dealing with decolonialization in Africa. I had almost forgotton about it…

The Old Left’s answers to the problems of the day were of course bullsh*t, often murderous, but at least the problems that they pointed out were actually problems, really existing in the real world. Somehow, men who think that they are women not being allowed to pee pee beside little girls, and multimillionaire athletes being denied their right to dishonor the country that made them rich does not exactly measure up to slavery or the plight of the immiserated proletariat.

Lots and lots of teachers are already armed, you just don’t know about it. Take my word on this.

I'm ashamed of my fellow Over-50's. What the Hell is wrong with these guys?

Pinker is getting way out of his league. Guys like Nassim Taleb and John Gray have torn much of his "Better Angels" work to shreds.

You could see this coming. I was a NG subscriber for decades, but dropped ny subscription in the mid-90’s, when the first hints of political correctness started to seep in. It’s too bad, NG was once a great publication; just watch, it’ll be gone in less than a decade. And sad to say, good riddance.

That just means that those of us over fifty who are in favor of gun rights have to work twice as hard. Still embarrassing, though…

I've never considered myself one of those "It's the Joos!" kind of guys, but…it really does kind of jump out at you, doesn't it?

Oddly enough, I'll bet this number would have been significantly higher fifty or sixty years ago. Back then, groups like the Jewish Defense League and JPFO used to advocate firearms ownership, as a preventive against genocide – the JDL used to have, as a slogan, "For every Jew, a Twenty-Two!" But as the memory of actual oppression has faded among many American Jews, it's become all about goy-baiting, not Jewish preservation. I'd be willing to bet that most of the Jews who have a favorable opinion of the NRA are either immigrants from the Middle East, or recent descendants of such. American Jews have forgotten what real anti-Semitism is.

Paul Rain,

I have no doubt that the numbers of Jews that favored the NRA would still have been small-ish fifty years ago, but I'll bet that it would have been at least double what it is today. Yeah, the JDL was a bunch of thugs, but they most certainly did favor firearms rights, as did lots of Jews who had actually experienced oppression. There is no comparable Jewish organization today that I am aware of, except JPFO, which is not large. IMHO, Jews have become a lot more extremist on this issue in the last twenty years or so.

Carleton Coon got a lot of things wrong, but given what he had to work with, it’s remarkable how much he got right. For example, as far as I know, he was one of the first people to seriously suggest that modern Europeans were a product of Homo Sap/Neanderthal interbreeding.

Coon also bravely served as an OSS agent in World War Two, worked hard to preserve the cultures of the world’s remaining hunter/gatherer people, and served as a mentor to many younger anthropologists. As a reward, he was forced to spend the last few years of his life defending himself against charges of “racism” and his work and reputation has now been tossed down the progressive memory hole. For a guy who came about as close as anyone in American academia did to being Indiana Jones, it was a pretty rotten turn.