History reveals that foundational advances are few, and that subsequent to them spawn—in hydra-like fashion—many more, often arcane corollary branches of inquiry.
The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved.
The evidence for the heritability of psychological traits is immense.
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world.
Recommendations to drink eight glasses of water each day and eat no more than 2,000 calories daily are pretty much common knowledge.
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
So adherents to an ideology constitute a race? Islam is a faith-based ideology, with nothing biologically inherent about it.
Understand the character of an insurgency. An insurgency is a movement. Insurgency need not be coordinated or centrally planned.
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Public criticism of cultural appropriation, even in its more sober and reflective manifestations, duly narrows to a couple of apparent trends.
The desire to censor is not entirely impossible to understand. When you encounter an idiotic YouTube comment or forum post.