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Razib Khan

Who Are We?

by Razib Khan on May 07, 2009

The human conceit that we are the masters of our own destinies may be one of those hard-wired illusions which served an adaptive function in the distant past. Whatever the evolutionary truth of it, despite the fact that Calvinism, Islam, and modern science lean against the position that our will is free, we do live as if control is ours. But … [Read More]

Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending examine the interaction between civilization and evolution, and in the process smash to pieces the Blank Slate hypothesis.  150 years ago Charles Darwin published the Origin of Species. Origin was not revolutionary because it proposed that lineages changed over time; the idea was in the air of the age, and evolutionary theories have an ancient pedigree, … [Read More]

I recently read Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry A. Frieden.  As in many books in this genre the first age of globalization which ended in 1914 receives a great deal of treatment.  This was a period of free movement of capital, goods and labor.  Frieden observes that though there was agitation and organization against … [Read More]

Razib Khan

The Limits of Certitude

by Razib Khan on January 12, 2009

Interacting with people in the sciences over my life one of the major issues I have noticed is an extreme hubris when it comes to their opinions in regards to non-scientific issues. Many individuals in the sciences consider all issues fundamentally scientific.  This engenders a certitude when it comes to public policy; there are no opinions, there are true descriptions of … [Read More]

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The Paleocon of South Park


More than a few have altered me to Eric Cartman’s soulful, white-nationalist plaint.  [Read More]

Posted by Richard Spencer on November 20, 2009


Katie and Sarah


Regarding my conclusion that “sisterhood” is overrated, a reader reports, Decades past a weathered criminal trial lawyer told me that he always tried to load a jury with middle aged or … [Read More]

Posted by Richard Spencer on November 20, 2009


Stupid Diversity Tricks


A commentator at Sailer’s blog writes of a recent episode of The Late Show that “9 out of 10 of the Marines on Letterman’s Top 10 were minorities, and half were … [Read More]

Posted by Richard Hoste on November 18, 2009


Jon and Kate Plus Hate


Despite my best efforts to embrace all God’s creatures with my loving spirit, Jon and Kate Gosselin are impossible to esteem. I simply cannot understand why two people would ever contemplate … [Read More]

Posted by Mandolyna Theodoracopulos on November 18, 2009


Sarah & the Sisterhood


This past weekend, a friend of mine recounted a visit he paid to his wife’s family in Arkansas around the time McCain had scheduled his much-awaited announcement of who his running-mate … [Read More]

Posted by Richard Spencer on November 17, 2009