The Social Pathologist

Simon Grey is one of the bloggers I like to visit and it's quite a mystery to me why he does not get more of comments on his blog. He wr...

As I said in my previous post, it appears that both national IQ and culture matter with regard to a country's economic performance.  Ric...

I'm late to the party, but Fred has put up a good essay over at his site. Executive summary: IQ matters but so does culture .

My apologies to my readers for my absence. It's been a rather hectic few weeks and I'm suffering a case of writing apathy. I imagine...

  Photograph of Dr Karadzic and Dr Srdja Trifkovic(p27417 ) Whilst all sides committed atrocities during the Yugoslavian wars, ...

My opposition to Mr Trifkovic does not stem from his "Serbian-ness", rather, my opposition to him is more ideological, resting ...

For his actions and his writings, Vulliamy was named “Foreign Correspondent of the Year” in 1992 – an accolade he fully deserved. But ...

Commentator Ingemar, in my previous post, quoted Auster whom he felt gave a better explanation of liberalism than I was offering: An expl...

Over at The Orthosphere, Jim Kalb has put up a post on the etiology of Liberalism . Now, from what I can see, Kalb's contention is that ...

It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclose...

There seems to be a movement about which is trying to make May 1st  a commemorative day for victims of Communism. It has my support.  The Eu...

With the unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia, Bismark set upon a policy of reducing the influence of Catholicism in Ger...

I was quite surprised at the electoral maps that I published in my previous post. I was able to find another one which illustrates the vot...

Just a follow up to my previous post. Back in the comments thread over at Ferdinand's, I made this reply to commentator Thursday; ...