By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

The World Cup Theory Of Russia And Ukraine

Putin grew up rooting for the Soviet Union’s World Cup soccer team that included Russian and Ukrainian players, so Russian-Ukrainian unity seems natural to him. But young Russian troops have grown up ...
By Peter Brimelow on 02/28/2022

VDARE.com's Peter Brimelow Thanks Nick Fuentes For Graceful Tribute At AFPAC 3

Earlier: Michelle Malkin At AFPAC: The Charge of the America First Brigade and Michelle Malkin At AFPAC II: “Bloody, But Unbowed” The extraordinary Nick Fuentes's speech "We Will Take Back Our Country"...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

The Future Is Fatter: Brazil Battles Gordofobia

From the New York Times news section: Brazil, Land of the Thong, Embraces Its Heavier Self A country known for beach bodies is confronting soaring obesity rates with new laws that enshrine protecti...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

Australia Solves Its Aboriginal Achievement Gap Problem

Earlier: Learning from Abroad: How Australia Is Solving Its Racial Inequality Problem From the Sydney Morning Herald: Ever since the Bolt case a decade ago, it has been more or less legally risky in...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

Is Global Warming Slowing The Russians?

The afternoon high in Kiev all week is going to be above freezing. Perhaps Global Warming is bogging down the Russian invasion? Maybe the Russians were counting on General Winter—after all, it’s Febru...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

Israel Stays Friendly With Russia

From the New York Times news section: War in Ukraine Forces Israel Into a Delicate Balancing Act Israel is a strong ally of the United States Or, perhaps to be precise, vice versa. , and its lead...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

Let's Not Have a Nuclear War

Earlier: The Third World War: August 1985 Back in the 1980s, there was a vast Nuclear Freeze campaign in Western Europe and North America so as not to irritate Moscow. Interestingly, for many years, Wi...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

WASHINGTON POST: Ukraine Enthusiasts Are Racist

From the Washington Post media news section: ‘They seem so like us’: In depicting Ukraine’s plight, some in media use offensive comparisons Reaching for context in the Russian invasion, correspondent...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2022

The Third World War: August 1985

From my Takimag column in February 2014: World War IIISteve Sailer February 05, 2014 With the 100th anniversary of World War I upcoming and old enmities between America and Russia resurging in cont...
By Paul Kersey on 02/27/2022

Five NJ Cities—10% Of Population—Had 62% Of Shootings: New Jersey Would Have Virtually No Gun Violence If It Had No Black Population

So if New Jersey had no black population, would the state have any gun violence? Five NJ cities that account for 10% of population had 62% of shooting victims in 2021, by Joe Malinconico and Steve Jan...
By Steve Sailer on 02/27/2022

One Of The Winners From Mr. Putin's War: Lockheed

Back on February 24 in “Will NATO be the Institutional Winner from Putin’s War,” I opined: I bet a whole bunch of Lockheed salesmen are en route to Berlin at this moment. Here’s Lockheed’s recent st...
By Steve Sailer on 02/27/2022

Judge Rules That Asians Can't Be Denied Equal Protection Of The Laws To Benefit Blacks At Thomas Jefferson High School. But Are Whites Asian-Adjacent Enough To Possess Civil Rights Too?

Earlier: Thomas Jefferson High School In VA: Whites Use George Floyd To Combat Asian Supremacy In STEM From the New York Times news section: Judge Strikes Down Elite Virginia High School’s Admissio...
By Steve Sailer on 02/27/2022

NYT: Racist Central European Countries Are Letting In Ukrainian Refugees Instead Of Black Muslims

Earlier: Wife Of US Ambassador To Afghanistan: Europe's Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling From the New York Times news section, here’s a news article illustrating my observation of a decade ago that ...
By Former Agent on 02/26/2022

US Border Patrol Deploying To Poland For “Operation Ukraine Support”

From Human Events: Despite the ongoing conflict at the U.S. southern border, Biden ordered Customs and Border Protection agents to Europe to assist those fleeing from the Russian invasion.  In a ...
By Ward Hanover on 02/26/2022

Democracy Isn't "Sacred" When It's White People Voting

Earlier: Should the Land of the Free be the Home of the Braves? Here’s  another hypocritical story about how the same people who are crying about the January 6 protesters threatening our "sacred d...
By Steve Sailer on 02/26/2022

Economists And MBAs Are Outsmarting Consumers

When I majored in economics at Rice U. in 1976-1980, economists had all sorts of clever ideas for how firms could profit-maximize. But when I went to work in the market research business in the 1980s...
By Steve Sailer on 02/26/2022

Americans Winning At The Spy Game

American intelligence services did a much better of analyzing Russian intentions in the weeks leading up to Mr. Putin’s War than their Continental colleagues. For example, the head of the German spy ...
By A.W. Morgan on 02/25/2022

New Number: Half-A-Million Illegals On The Loose

Vdare.com’s James Fulford reported this week that January’s border apprehensions, 153,041, might have decreased slightly, but immigration expert Andrew Arthur expects the border madness to worsen. True...
By Steve Sailer on 02/25/2022

William F. Buckley And The Murderer

The 1960s were much like the 2020s in terms of credulity about the innocence of criminals. But nobody remembers that. Thus, from a New York Times book review: How a Death-Row Inmate’s Embrace of Conse...
By Steve Sailer on 02/25/2022

Putin Demands Equity: It's Like The 1619 Project With A Strongman

From Marginal Revolution: Putin as a man of ideas by Tyler Cowen February 25, 2022 at 12:25 am in Current Affairs History Political Science Commentators are drawing lessons from the conflict in Ukra...