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Equality is our Great God, so it's no surprise Charles Murray's 1995 book on group IQ differences set off a storm. But 52 brave scientists risked their careers to support it. Who were they? Here's a full list + their most interesting books. Meet The Bell Curve Reading List:
1. Seymour Itzkoff: The Decline of... See more
THE PATHWAY TO GENIUS
Kevin L. Michel • Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams
The universally lauded Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate is a full-frontal assault on the implicit idea that biology plays virtually no role in social issues and norms. Nicholas Wade, at the time a New York Times science writer, wrote A Troublesome Inheritance about “Genes, Race and Human History.”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
cleverest observer. Consider
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
One of my favorite take-downs of a book is a piece Charles Lane wrote about The Bell Curve, for the New York Review of Books. It goes deep into Mankind Quarterly's history. Complete rogues gallery of eugenicists, white supremacists, and psychos. https://t.co/FctWyk6P3U
Should anyone care about this tangle of bizarre connections? Only if you
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
By promoting self-organization, energy flux gradually converts a clump of mindless molecules into information-processing machinery with agency—meaning the self-drive and purposeful action that we associate with life.