The Social Pathologist

I felt that a comment from Jason in my previous post deserved an extended reply. Anyway, as far as your essay is concerned, it seems to...

Menken here writes on his opinion of IQ tests and liberals. I've highlighted what I think are the important points. Here, of course...

DEMOCRACY CAME INTO THE WESTERN WORLD TO THE TUNE of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below; there was ...

John Henry Newman was an academic and Church of England priest who eventually ended up being a Catholic Cardinal. His importance in today...

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...