That very handsome Little Fella seems to be proudly saying “my Daddy has the best HBD blog on the Internet ! “- and he is right.
Sicko haters exist in all races. Keep up your excellent work.

True, but since that would jeopardize the future of casino type finance, it’s obviously ” unworkable “.

“Class warfare disappeared in the warfare between homosexuals and heterosexuals, black and white, men and women”.
Spot on analysis of how Identity Politics paralyses the 99.09 % into internecine squabbles over crumbs falling from the tables of the 0.91 % and ludicrous kabuki theater symbolism struggles over distractions like display of the Confederate flag.
These times are badly in need of a coherent, well thought out Class Conscious, Color Blind, Gender Blind, Everything Else Blind, Ideology to oppose what is known overseas as Neo-Liberalism and here is a sort of Free Market Uber Allesism.
Ya can’t beat Somethin’ with Nothin’.

Pat at his best. What is surprising is not that the Globalist GOP has done so poorly, but rather that it hasn’t done far worse.
The GOP vote has become The Lesser Of Two Evils vote and is therefore dependent on the Dems being unable to get their act together with a program that would appeal to Economic Nationalists. If they ever do, Bye, Bye GOP.

Because Southern Cotton growers needed cheap Black Labor as much after the Civil War as they had prior to it, and the U.S. needed the foreign exchange earnings of Cotton exports ( as large as 60% of such earnings in the 19th Century ) .
It was the Mechanization of Cotton growing post WW2 that made “surplus” Black Labor a Problem rather than an Asset.

Mr. Douthat’s defense of Freedom of Speech as the Open Mindedness that accompanies Humility ( Gee, we could be wrong about this ) is a relic of our Christian past.
Rationalism today, whether of Right or Left, scorns that Humility as being not a Virtue, but rather a weak kneed lack of conviction.
There is a World of difference between a paralyzing state of Doubt and a humble reserving of that Final Judgement.

Satire worthy of Jonathan Swift. Bravo !

No denial of obvious facts of Nature is too bizarre for our Ruling Elite to pursue.

Twelve points on a 1 to 10 scale. One of Pat’s very best encapsulating the idiocy and contradictions of the “War On Terror”. The crystal clear substance of Islam that has given meaning and structure to huge populations over vast areas for centuries is opposed by an amorphous substance free drivel of vague abstraction.

Thank Mr. Khan. I have had a strong feeling that this area is of prime importance, but some of the articles have been way over my head. Plan to use the resources that you have thoughtfully provided to get up to speed.

Thank you Mr. Shyster for clarifying how this is done. Do either a false claimant or her lawyer face any risk for unfounded allegations ?

As a layman, I hesitate to venture any opinion at all on the relative merits of Science writers. My limited understanding is that in that field The Fact is Sacred and any conscious “fudging” is, and ought to be, lethal.
I am puzzled, however, by your saying that “Jonah is a young white male, so he will be given particular breaks in this world.” Please understand that I am not trying to refute what you are saying, but I would like you to be more specific.
Was his initial reputation undeserved ?
Was the response of the organs he was associated with somehow blunted by his race ?
Would a non-white, non-young, non-male person be denied similar post exposure treatment and, if so, are such cases known to you ? Of course, no names are necessary.
If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that his having been a Rhodes Scholar gave him Elite contacts that conferred benefits beyond race or gender. What say you ?

Quibble Alert !
The author needs to rework those stats in the first paragraph: 9 million is about 53% of 17 million etc.

“Ancient Athens with its core citizen class and its ancillary metics could be a plausible model for America in 2050 ”
Isn’t that, in effect, what the “path to citizenship” part of dealing with current “illegal residents” would in fact create ? No fear of the INS, but also no immeddiate right to participate in the political process of the country whose functioning their labor makes possible ? I don’t doubt that this could happen but the moral aspect I find troubling.
P.S. That young fella has an “Ivy or Bust” look of grim determination.:-)

A further demonstration that any nation or institution is gone beyond reclamation when it becomes impossible to parody. I would have had difficulty believing that this report was not an excerpt from a humor mag had I not seen the photo.

I read your post on your blog and am astounded that College Board would have so little regard for the integrity of its product as to reuse the same test for international student test takers that it had used in the U.S. several months earlier. If true, colleges need to reassess whether the SAT deserves its exalted status. Any similar doubts regarding the ACT ?

If any ethnic group of students in STEM areas is engaging in broad and ongoing cheating :
1) they cannot be gaining a thorough understanding of the material
2) they will be unable to “fake it” for any prolonged period of time in their STEM field
3) therefore the question of whether pervasive cheating is a major issue can be answered by the reputation for competence or the lack thereof in their peer groups. What say you ?

“they tend to believe that they are more culturally similar to African Americans than they are to White Americans”- I can see where this might not produce derision in the Ivory Tower of Academia, but is it promoted elsewhere ?

“the one indispensable nation in world affairs”- calls to mind Charles deGaulle’s comment as to how the cemeteries were filled with indispensable men.

Those “minor developmental leagues” would be of tremendous benefit in ending the farce of illiterate thugs being wildly cheered on at stadiums packed with educated White alumni because the thugs are “representing” their University. Can’t happen soon enough.

As the Kids would say, this truly appalling story “creeps me out”. The real victim is, of course, this heartrendingly unfortunate little girl who, through absolutely no fault of her own, is born unwanted into an “alternate lifestyle choice” home. Shame on all the adults concerned here.

Mr. Map, you have bought into a popular conscience easing and resentment provoking canard. That family sees nothing approaching $65,000 per annum in cash. The providers of “services” paid for by the government divvy the great bulk of it up; the family never sees it. Take Medicaid for example; the provider, not the family sees the cash. Because I have reached that stage in life where I am beginning to fall apart, I had two surgeries last year and by your reckoning, had a really prosperous year indeed-all those M.D., Surgeon, Medication and Hospital bills should have shot me into my highest ever tax bracket. Perhaps I could make millionaire status if I could manage to survive a head on collision at high speed.

Excellent points well made. The administrative overhead involved in our social support systems is enormous, leading to the common misunderstanding of how much money actually finds its way to the poor as opposed to the providers of “services” to the poor.

Can’t get this story out of my mind. If it were a student bar and the thug pushed his way into a line, I would simply shrug, say par for the course and move on, but this was an inter fraternity event. I hope that there would be more to the story: what, if anything, did his Brothers have to say ?

The key sentence in this very distressing article is: “They ( the White kid’s parents ) complained about the harassment ( of the 14 year old kid sister ) but nothing was done.” For reasons not entirely clear ( genetics may quite possibly play a role ) there is a sub sector of the population that seems to lack the “internal controls” that make modern peaceful civilized life possible and respond only to externally imposed restraint. The American Black population appears to contain a higher proportion of this sub sector than the White population. Both the situation described in the article and the fraternity party described by DPG above, outline what ensues when this very basic Fact Of Life is willfully ignored. The flurry of dueling lawsuits in the California case would be unnecessary if the school administration had been even minimally competent in providing a safe learning environment instead of protecting their probably grossly overpaid careers by ducking a “touchy” situation.

On a scale of 1 to 10, a 12 point column. Thank you Fred. Mine was the Class of 1963. Leaving out the hunting ( big city urban ), the rest could have just as easily been mine. We were propagandized about the consequences of “losing” Vietnam. Nobody warned us about the consequences of losing that magnificent America that we grew up in.

“School prestige is more important than grades and test scores in hiring for top entry level jobs. ” OK, then what exactly is the source of the prestige ? The Pinker article knocked me over. I had envisioned the Ivies as being the concentration of the most brilliant and most dedicated undergrads in America. To learn that the American Elite recruit the type of graduates who spend four hours a day at “crew” and consider that the most fulfilling part of their educational experience might go a long way toward explaining the drift the Nation seems to be experiencing. The Pinker article deserves a lot more circulation and discussion than it has thus far received.
By the way, does Harvard, and the other Ivies, use the same “holistic” approach to admission and work expectation of their Graduate Schools ? Do they weigh the applicants based on the “prestige” of the applicants undergrad program or a demonstrated ability to do first class work ?

The swarm of new “threats” arising on the Neocon’s radar has become too rapidly shifting for me to follow, so I have quit trying. They are all “serious dangers to the West”- a remarkable accomplishment on their part in view of the fact all of them lack a Navy or Air Force. The Imperial over reach has gone beyond parody.

Typical Fred: brutally honest, unbiased, zippo hypocrisy, zippo PC. How the U.S. “handles” the massive Latino ( and Asian ) influx will determine how American society develops in the 21st Century. As is so often the case, it is a question of Private Sector profit driving the growth and persistence of a situation with the “externality” cost being shifted to the larger society. It is quite probably true that the Latinos are here because we need them to be here: a host of American industries and business firms are utterly dependent on their unskilled or semi-skilled labor. Is anyone really so naive as to believe that our White and Black Under Class would rush in to replace “self deporting” Latinos ? The question of whether these tens of millions of newcomers will follow the path of the Irish and Italians or follow the path of the Blacks is the key question of 21st Century America.

You might consult Gregory Clark’s “A Farewell to Alms”.

Must confess to a bit of confusion here :
1) Are you saying IQ testing is worthless ?
2) Are you saying apparent differences in intelligence are due to lack of application ( “not paying f*cking attention” ) ? On more than one occasion, I have attempted giving explanations to Dim Bulbs who were making every outward effort to follow but without success.
3) Reader joey/joe/joe’s self description fit me like a glove and, in thinking back describes all my close friends. Did it ring a bell for you ?
4) Have you read the Bell Curve, and if so, what is your response ?
5) Is it really necessary, or just fun, to snarl at other commentators ?:-)

If I understand your question, I believe the issue is addressed in one of the links provided ( Clark2009b ) and in Mr. Frosts prior response. Empathy tends to discourage individual violence and the Church and State in Europe united about 1,000 years ago in a prolonged effort to inhibit personal violence via generous use of capital punishment. Anything that inhibited acting out in a violent manner ( such as empathy ) would increase the chances of handing down the trait in one’s genes to the descendant’s one was therefore allowed to reproduce as opposed to the empathy lacking hot heads who were hanged. Did I miss something ( always a possibility ) ?

I don’t think that Mr. Frost is trying to promote any form of Christianity, as such, at all. I found it very helpful to read the links provided, particularly “Clark2009b” in order to understand where Mr. Frost is coming from. As I understand him, he is definitely NOT positing an inborn universal moral code throughout all of Mankind but rather a set of traits and inclinations which are the product of an increased rate of Evolution beginning with the Agricultural Revolution ( see Cochran and Hapending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion and Clark’s A Farewell to Alms ). Human Nature is not static- the Nature of some Human Groups has changed.

As usual , first rate column from Fred; he missed his vocation- he would have made a marvelous teacher. His cardiology and Biochem translations were better than anything I received in my training. His comments regarding ( at least some ) commentators are sadly true: too much emoting – too little analytic thought. Why anyone should care to listen to the self pitying whining of my generation who are leaving a Country quite possibly screwed up beyond redemption is a mystery.
I will say this for the Ron Unz Review: it is well written, honest, non agenda driven, non PC thought provoking material. I have had to reassess some long held opinions in view of what I have read here and that is a sure sign that I am not wasting my time seeking conformation of my pre existing prejudices- I seek to replace them with new ones ! Thanks.

I’ve never quite “bought” the picture of Wilson as a hopelessly idealistic Utopian tricked by those Evil Europeans. The resignation of William Jennings Bryan over the Lusitania note and other un-neutral actions by Wilson ( e.g. the enormously important decision to allow Wall Street to extend unlimited credit to Great Britain ) tell a different story. Until 1917 Great Britain’s interests were better served by a technically neutral U.S.A. industry running full blast to supply the Allied war effort and delivered safely by U.S. flag ships that Germany had agreed not to attack. It was only when the Russian Steam Roller had obviously permanently stalled, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers simply walking away from the trenches and the remainder on the verge of mutiny, did it seem that British interest’s would be better served by direct U.S. intervention. Wilson’s brutal crushing of anti-war dissent is one of the most disgraceful pages in our history.

WOW ! Did you even bother to carefully read my post ? I doubt it because I wasn’t making any statement at ALL or making ANY “assumptions” at all. I was merely asking Mr. Frost his ( not your ) opinion concerning some allegations ( which I believed to be false ) which I had read. I gather from the fractured syntax of your post that English is probably not your primary language. I would suggest that for YOUR benefit you might have someone better grounded in the English language read what you mistakenly believe to be an insulting comment before resorting to the flame thrower.

Superb article Dr. Gottfried; thank you very much. The Great War’s legacy is still with us in so many ways and the deep wounds that inflicted on Western Civilization have yet to heal. Although I did not find Ms. MacMillan’s book “tedious” ( she is a far more engaging writer than Barbara Tuchman who was making the same points 50 years ago ) , I fully concur that the insistence on German responsibility for the War is very much out of date. The Kaiser was a neurotic buffoon not a proto-Hitler. I would also agree that Dr. Clark’s The Sleepwalkers is the best of the crop of the new popular studies: the state sponsored Terrorism of Serbia presented the Old Order with a challenge that it lacked the institutions to deal with effectively.

“This is the case with private crimes that we refer to as “corruption”.’ Would this also refer to such activities as cheating on tests, false credentials and resumes ? I have read accusations of that type of activity and have tended to dismiss them as “sour grapes”.

See comment # 39 above.

See comment # 39 above.

You are entirely correct. My Bad. I should have restricted my examples to Chicago contributors to America’s Rich Cultural Mosaic. Outstanding among them were the Gusenberg brothers Peter and Frank, valued members of “Bugs” Moran’s North Side Gang beverage distributorship. Peter gained lasting fame for participation in the Tommy Gun assault on Alphonse Capone’s beverage distributorship headquarters in Cicero Ill. in Sept. 1926. Peter emptied the entire drum of bullets into the establishment without hitting any of Mr. Capone’s business partners. Mr. Capone’s response to this hostile takeover bid the following St. Valentine’s Day was more successful: both brothers were killed. A fellow North Side business partner, Hymie Weiss, despite his nickname was a good Catholic boy who carried a rosary every day of his ( shortened ) life. Hope this has been helpful.

A Thousand Thanks, Mr Unz. This article was an education in itself. Not for the first time you have caused me to let go of some of my old ideas. Bravo !

I am far from being an “HBD theorist”- Hell I only found recently what the initials meant. I’m still trying to get my aging brain around what they are saying and the evidence for it before senility closes the door. I certainly don’t believe, nor do those who I am reading claim, that EVERYTHING is genetically determined but it would appear that a LOT is genetically influenced. I suspect that functioning optimally in a European Culture society is simply more difficult and less fulfilling for American Blacks and thus the persistence of grossly maladaptive attitudes and behaviors. Western ideology exults rationality and free will as virtually sitting alone in the driver’s seat; my admittedly limited knowledge of modern Neuroscience would suggest otherwise. And where , in God’s Name, did that “inhuman” stuff come from? Next, you’ll be taking a brave stand against broiling babies.

“from whom much has been given, much shall be required”. Put that in your Randian pipe and smoke it.

Most did but Dutch Schultz found terrorizing NYC more fun. Try Wikipedia.

Spot on; very well put. This, I suspect, is the real reason for the persistence of “all men are created equal” and “they can just lift themselves up by their own bootstraps like everyone else did” rhetoric in the face of 150 years Post Emancipation experience which would indicate that it simply isn’t so. The alternative is a strong White Paternalism that would involve costly, burdensome, direct involvement in ensuring that the right choices are implemented in what would be frankly recognized as at least a long term and quite possibly permanently dependent population. The entire National Narrative in this area would have to change. This is, to put it mildly, extremely unlikely barring some catastrophic upheaval.

Didn’t mean to imply that it did; my point ( fuzzily made, I’ll admit ) was that the persistence of a broad range of behaviors and attitudes virtually guaranteed to ensure failure in the most success friendly society in the history of Mankind would suggest “something else” going on. HBD strikes me as the most likely, and in a very real sense the least pejorative, explanation.

I used the latest ( 2013-2014 academic year ) Forbes figures, not the 2012 figures.

Fred’s Police experience was in DC: finding ” that the perps are almost always Black” was almost certainly a simple statement of fact. Oftentimes in American history, the first American born generation of immigrant’s children will show disproportionate criminal activity: first Irish, then German, Eastern European Jewish, Italian, Czechoslovak, you name it-then it subsides. That’s what makes me more hopeful concerning our current flood of “Hispanic” immigration. It’s a mixed bag but so was everybody else. The sad history of the native born Blacks is unique and disheartening. The persistence in maladaptive behavior spans centuries and appears impervious to societal efforts at remedy. I have read jail statistics from mid 18th Century Mass. that have incarceration rates similar to those shown by Mr. Smith. To deny the unique problem of Black maladaption isn’t being fair minded, it’s being willfully blind. HBD is either true or false- how flattering or not it may be to any given group should not enter the discussion.

I noticed that you did not answer my question concerning NAM graduation- no reason that you should really- it’s up to me to do the research and I tried. At Forbes I was able to get a breakdown of the NAM for their most recent academic year: total 12% ( not 14% ) and broken down as Hispanic 10% , Black 2%. Didn’t much surprise me, I’ve always been more sanguine regarding the future prospects of our Hispanic as opposed to Black populations. Anyone having any extensive contact with the “Hispanic” population is aware of the enormous racial and cultural diversity WITHIN that group.

I find it ( pleasantly ) astounding that Blacks and Hispanics make up 14% of the incoming freshman class- do they graduate ?

This is an example of the Evils of Oligarchy. Americans are probably the least envious people on the planet; very few of us begrudge the Super Rich their Gazillions even if suspecting the Rocky Mountains of lucre are more the result of a rigged game than genuine productive contribution. No- it’s much more this creeping Neo-Feudalism Thing:the evident ability to make both major Political Parties wholly owned subsidiaries and turn all media outlets into shills. Thank God for the Internet.

We have no more of an effective plan of how to handle a huge ineducable Black Underclass today than we did in the heyday of Government action to integrate them into the larger U.S. society. Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Open Housing Act of 1968, 50 years of “Affirmative Action”, have all failed to “bring on board” an enormous “indigestible” sub-group who, through nature or an impenetrable culture, appear to be utterly unwilling or unable ( or both ) to assimilate into a society that the rest of the world finds so desirable that immigrants flock to seize the opportunities this Underclass scorns. I freely admit to bafflement as to a solution.

What will it take before the obvious solution of racial separate development with Black autonomy is turned to ?