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Intelligence
Why I Believe the Races Should Be Separated
LET’S START with some harsh facts. The average Black IQ in the U.S. is estimated by various sources as being somewhere in the mid to upper 80’s as compared to the White average arbitrarily set at 100. In Canada, with its large number of immigrants from the Caribbean, the average Black IQ is likely…
Basketball and Celestial Mechanics
by David Sims THE WORD “leftist” usually doesn’t describe people with common sense and critical thinking ability. It refers, instead, to people who say they prefer socialism as an economic system and who tend to believe scientifically disproved nonsense such as the theory of…
NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence
New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel’s high-tech intelligence apparatus. EARLY LAST WEEK, the city of New York launched — with little media scrutiny — one of two new massive cybersecurity centers that will be…
Fit for Eternity
by David Sims “STRENGTH, size, ruthlessness, or intellect does not equal more fit.” There’s often a dash of leftist Political Correctness in statements like that one. It’s technically true. But such qualities are usually positively correlated with fitness. Consider…
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (part 15)
Robert Oppenheimer by Revilo P. Oliver The Fly in the Ointment IT IS HIGH TIME we returned from our excursus to Mr. Catran and took notice of one nugget of wisdom he offers us, an injunction that we must never study history. History, you see, would tell us what human beings are by nature, and prophets of a…
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (part 14)
by Revilo P. Oliver A Question of Taxonomy THE READER WILL have noticed what was illogical and literally untrue in the foregoing section, and will have made allowance for the vagaries of our language, but the point deserves comment. On the basis of the report in Mr. Dieckmann’s book, I made a statement…
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (part 13)
by Revilo P. Oliver The Anatomy of Revolution NEW WORLDS have always been the shining bait dangled before simpletons by revolutionaries, who can never deliver what they promise. The famous Jesus is reported in the various gospels to have made all sorts of glowing promises, but Christianity nevertheless…
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (part 11)
by Revilo P. Oliver Is There Any Hope? IN THE Eighteenth Century, as Voltaire tells us, two extraterrestrials, Micromégas, a native of Sirius, and his friend, a Saturnian academician, stopped by the earth and discovered, somewhat to their astonishment, that there was life on it. Their scientific…
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (part 10)
H.G. Wells by Revilo P. Oliver Metaphysics IT IS EASY TO account for the sudden vogue of “science fiction” in the later 1920s. As we have already remarked, it was a novel form of fantasy, refreshing to palates weary of the traditional forms, which had been cultivated almost to exhaustion. But it was really…
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (part 9)
Triumph of Daedalus Over Fate and Futility (2017) by Bryan Larsen (bryanlarsen.com) by Revilo P. Oliver Superstition Springs Eternal PLUS ça change, plus c’est la même chose. “New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.” It is human nature that is meant in the familiar Horatian tag, naturam expelles…