Originally published as a 5-part series in Pinkerite this version has some edits, notes and additions. — “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” is a series edited by Tim Folger. Steven Pinker was the editor of the 2004 installment, which is most notable for Pinker’s inclusion of an article, “The Cousin Marriage Conundrum” by racist Steve Sailer. Sailer’s article was originally written for American Conservative, and…

My thoughts today turned to the continuing glorification, in the United States, of the Confederacy. Although some monuments have been removed — and I recently saw an interesting documentary on the subject on PBS, which I recommend, called Neutral Ground, there are still plenty left. The Southern Poverty Law Center…

Quillette is at it again, promoting race pseudoscience. (The link goes to the Wayback Machine snapshot of the article, not to Quillette itself.) And given how much Steven Pinker loves Quillette, and vice-versa, it was appropriate that Pinker got a shout-out in the article, in reference to his promotion of…

I was surprised to learn of your objections to Emil O. W. Kirkegaard because of your apparently friendly relationship with Razib Khan. You signed his letter attacking a Black woman for suggesting that racist E. O. Wilson was a racist. You also gave Khan an interview for his Substack. I have been following the career of Razib Khan for over 15 years and I have never seen any evidence he changed his positive views of J. P. Rushton’s theories (of which E. O. Wilson was also a fan), since 2000.