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I appeared on the philosophy show Brain in a Vat. We talk about the meaning of "race," the implications of human diversity, academic freedom, etc. One of my favorite interviews. youtube.com/watch?v=77prDN…

"Unlike earlier attempts by Christian creationists to enter science classrooms and prevent the teaching of human evolutionary origins, scholars are largely supportive of this latest intrusion into anthropological and archaeological research." aporiamagazine.com/p/burying-scie…

You guys should check this out. It was a great interview about the book!

At TGS last week, excerpting a previous post, I spoke with Charles Murray about the fact that modest group differences in average mental ability can imply substantial disparities in the relative numbers of the highest performers. If so, insistence on group parity is a bad policy.

Harvard eliminates requirement for DEI statements in hiring for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (consistent with lobbying by the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard Carlos Henriques) bostonglobe.com/2024/06/03/met… via The Boston Globe

This interview, with Brendan O'Neill of the Spiked Podcast, discusses my just-released memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. It is among the most searching talks on the book that I've done: youtu.be/RX9xVfw6qp4

NEW: For 5+ years, UCLA medical school refused to give its own faculty data on the link between MCATs and student performance. And when whistleblowers tried to come forward about illegal admissions practices, UCLA refused to give them a written guarantee of non-retaliation.🧵

Since at least 2018, the school has refused to provide members of its faculty oversight board data on the relationship between admitted students’ academic credentials and their performance in medical school, two former members of that board said. freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-wa…

"Major institutions like journals and professional associations have become mouthpieces for left-wing ideology – frequently spouting the sort of verbiage you’d expect to hear at the DSA Convention." aporiamagazine.com/p/robert-k-mer…

1/ I am aware that Alan Lester continues to wage obsessive war against me. I have already responded to his 15,000-word attack in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, which impressed me as neither honest nor intelligent. I don't plan to respond to him again.

A report published last year in a major bioethics journal argues that research on race and IQ should not be published unless there's a "compelling justification". Bo Winegard and I have penned a response: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Are the cops racist? Tonight, Harvard professor Roland Fryer breaks down the facts of police brutality. Join us for an unflinching conversation about the explosive response his findings inspired from academia, and why he refuses to stay silent. Premieres 7pm UK time, 2pm

Done with DEI? Try MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence "That means we hire only the best person for the job, we seek out and demand excellence, and we unapologetically prefer people who are very smart. We treat everyone as an individual. We do not unfairly stereotype,

This review of my memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE, by Andrew Ferguson in Commentary, is the best one yet, I think. Finally, someone really appreciates the literary ambitions (and achievements!) of the book: commentary.org/articles/andre…

Lawrence Bobo, the faculty dean at Harvard who said that professors should be sanctioned for speech that “incites” outside pressure on the school, defends himself by appealing to the very principles of academic freedom he argued for abolishing.

Elizabeth Weiss is a lioness. I wish more faculty had her courage. Elizabeth Weiss

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes STAT Rebecca Sear The aged Richard Lynn wasn't an impeccably careful scholar, but his basic findings in 2002 about patterns of national average ability on cognitive tests have been largely replicated several times since then, such as recently by World Bank researchers: takimag.com/article/a-litt…

Nature, Nurture, & Neither: The laws of behavioral genetics. "Everything is partly heritable" isn't even the most shocking. It's the effects of the environment that people are most wrong about, together with influences that are neither genetic nor environmental. Latest episode in

My colleague, Todd K. Shackelford, made me aware of a new faculty position as Assistant Professor Psychology (specializing in quantitative analysis) at his university. Details here: jobs.oakland.edu/postings/32990

It sounds like a great position: ➡️Competitive pay ➡️1/2 teaching load for first 3 years and 2/2 thereafter ➡️Low cost of living and a safe campus ➡️Thriving graduate programs ➡️Great retirement plan ➡️Department with a track record of housing active researchers If I weren't