Saturday, October 25, 2003

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THE ISRAELI LEFT I restrict my analysis of the Left almost entirely to the Left in Anglo-Saxon countries as I feel that I lack depth of...

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TASK-ORIENTATION -- AN UNEXPECTEDLY IMPORTANT PHENOMENON I have often pointed out in this blog how the Leftist leanings of psychologists...

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ELSEWHERE Italy’s conservative government certainly has courage. With Italy’s fast-aging population, the government’s plan to stop earl...
Friday, October 24, 2003

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“THE POOR” I’m no Theodore Dalrymple but .... In this blog I talk almost exclusively about Leftists and very rarely say anything abo...

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ELSEWHERE Eugenics -- comment from a reader: "If we simply didn't subsidize "the stupid" they would voluntarily red...
Thursday, October 23, 2003

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SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH ABOUT THIRD-WORLD BLACKS A reader writes I read with interest your paper on Indian farmers and IQ. This took m...

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ELSEWHERE I noted a couple of days ago how free trade is a great potential weapon against terrorism so it is good to see that Australia...
Wednesday, October 22, 2003

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THE SWISS ARE GETTING FED UP WITH UNWANTED IMMIGRANTS TOO If it is proper that a person is allowed to say whom he welcomes into his own ...

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ELSEWHERE Hitler is alive and well in Malaysia : “An unrepentant Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad repeated Tuesday his belief t...
Tuesday, October 21, 2003

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AGATHA CHRISTIE As someone who has read and enjoyed just about all the Agatha Christie novels, I was pleased to see that Johann Hari fi...

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IRAQ A very good summary here of why the war in Iraq was fully justified. It answers all the critics in a very brief and to-the-point...

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ELSEWHERE Some interesting history : The Pledge of Allegiance was originally a socialist idea designed to thwart Federalism. I am an a...
Monday, October 20, 2003

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REPORT FROM INDIA My latest academic upload (see here or here ) is a report of some research carried out in India among a large group o...

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SEARCH ENGINES Search engines are strange beasts. You can enter the same search term day after day and get radically different results ...

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ELSEWHERE A reader has pointed out that the “Townhall” story about cyclamates that I linked to yesterday was incorrect. Despite all th...
Sunday, October 19, 2003

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THEODORE DALRYMPLE AND THE BRITISH UNDERCLASS Few readers of this blog will be unaware of the writings of British prison doctor “Theodor...

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ELSEWHERE I mentioned yesterday the story from The Guardian about a moronic “briefing note” that allegedly emanated from someone in the...

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As is now well-known, psychologists Jost, Kruglanski & Co. summarized past psychological research as showing that conservatives are “do...
Saturday, October 18, 2003

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WHY THE LEFTIST INTELLIGENTSIA HATE SUCCESS Thomas Sowell says : “It used to be said that nothing succeeds like success. Today, nothing ...

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ELSEWHERE Another misleading headline : “Largest ever study finds GM crops 'harm wildlife'“ If you read the details all they f...