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Breeding for Intelligence? A Google Employee Asks the Question to Researcher Stephen Hsu of the Beijing Genomics Institute

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Santi Tafarella

In the below Google Tech Talk, Stephen Hsu talks to Google employees about the search for the genes behind intelligence (and seeks to recruit them into an ongoing study being conducted at the Beijing Genomics Institute). I shit you not. … Continue reading →

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Can Republicans Get More Than 60% of the White Vote?

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

Political scientist Ruy Teixeira is skeptical of the “maximize the white vote” strategy that some Republicans are advocating for the next couple of election cycles: White voters are likely to become less, not more, conservative over time, presenting a huge obstacle … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Victory Formula: 80-40; Romney’s Victory Formula: 25-60

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Santi Tafarella

The basic formula for an Obama victory is 80-40 (get 80% of the nonwhite vote and 40% of the white vote); Romney’s formula is 25-60 (25% of the nonwhite vote; 60% of the white vote). Therefore the following, based on … Continue reading →

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The Race Talk: Some Things I’ll Tell My Kids about Race (Contra John Derbyshire)

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Santi Tafarella

In the event you missed the news, John Derbyshire recently wrote a bewilderingly racist essay that got him removed as a contributing editor to National Review. His topic: what white parents should tell their white children about race, most particularly blacks. … Continue reading →

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If President Obama Dips below 43% of the White Vote, Can He Still Win in 2012?

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

If President Barack Obama cannot capture the white vote at quite the same numbers that he did in 2008 (43%), does that pretty much doom his chances in 2012 for a second term? A demographic trends analysis at National Journal suggests … Continue reading →

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Love, Love, Love: President Barack Obama, Officer James Crowley, and Henry Louis Gates

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

President Barack Obama is a lover, not a fighter. His remarks about Officer James Crowley’s actions at Henry Louis Gates’s house were ill-considered, and in advance of the facts, and he apologized. Good for Obama. I don’t want a president … Continue reading →

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Identity Politics: Is It Only a Problem When Non-White People Do It?

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Matthew Yglesias today notes the hypocritical—and ultimately racist—undercurrent just beneath Shout Radio Republicans’ objections to Sonia Sotomayor: Qualifications like time at Princeton, Yale Law, and on the Circuit Court that work well for guys with Italian names suddenly don’t work if you … Continue reading →

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Amanda Jones’s Father Was a Slave. She is 109 Years Old—and She Just Voted. Will You?

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella
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