Here’s a new Open Thread for all of you. To minimize the load, please continue to limit your Tweets or place them under a MORE tag. For those interested, here are my two most recent articles, both on Donald Trump and his surprising new tariff proclamations: President Donald Trump and Chairman Mao The Unz Review...
Read MoreHere’s a new Open Thread for all of you. To minimize the load, please continue to limit your Tweets or place them under a MORE tag. For those interested, here are my two most recent articles, which have been attracting a great deal of readership: How Israel Killed the Kennedys The Unz Review • March...
Read MoreHere’s a new Open Thread for all of you. For those interested, here's my most recent article: How Israel Killed the Kennedys Ron Unz • The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words On this same topic, here's Laurent Guyénot's YouTube documentary. Although it's perhaps a little too hagiographic, I think it's the...
Read MoreLast month, Achmed E. Newman left a comment in Bugs/Suggestions: Soon afterwards, I replied: A couple of days later, I included this exchange in the most recent Steve Sailer thread, and seemed to generally got a very positive reaction. Since it's now been more than a couple of weeks since Steve's last post, and the...
Read MoreFrom my review of the Best Picture Oscar contender Conclave in Taki's Magazine: Robert Harris’ heroes are clearly on the side of Vatican II. When Ralph Fiennes's English cardinal accuses him of ambition, Stanley Tucci's American cardinal notes that every cardinal has already picked out the name he would be known as when pope. Fiennes’...
Read MoreFrom my new column in Taki's Magazine: The Right’s Weird New Age Steve Sailer February 12, 2025 With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go? One increasing possibility appears to be that newly self-confident right-wingers are getting into various kinds of New...
Read MoreI started actively posting to my Substack at SteveSailer.Net last May and it's been going very well. Drop on by and take a look.
From the New York Times science section: The chance it won't hit Earth is 98.7%! Just after Christmas Day, astronomers spotted something zipping away from Earth: a rock somewhere between 130 feet and 330 feet long that they named 2024 YR4. Over the next few weeks, they simulated its possible future orbits. They now say,...
Read MoreFrom my new column in Taki's Magazine: Less publicized is that Cooper DeJean, a white cornerback, will likely start for the Eagles in the Super Bowl. The last white cornerback to start a Super Bowl was Jason Sehorn two dozen years ago in 2001. A rookie out of the U. of Iowa, DeJean took over...
Read MoreI don't really get the RFK Jr. cult. Sure, he's got a following who probably helped in the election, but that doesn't mean Trump can't stab him in the back afterward. So why the loyalty to a guy who is obviously bad news?
Baseball hitters are reasonably scared of being hit by an inside pitch. Only one major league baseball player has been directly killed by being hit with a hardball pitch, Ray Chapman in 1920, but many, such as Tony Conigliaro, have been badly hurt. Pitchers use hitters' fear to gain an advantage over them. For example,...
Read MorePresident Trump is issuing Executive Orders rapid fire. What's your favorite (so far)? What the worst?
From my new column in Taki's Magazine, "Is Los Angeles Doomed?" Read the whole thing there.
Lots more wind is forecasted for Southern California on Tuesday and part of Wednesday. Probably not as bad as last Tuesday, but still ... What's your prediction?
The couple of million people in the San Fernando Valley were nervous yesterday afternoon and evening as the Northeast wind that had been propelling the horrific Palisades fire in normally utopian Pacific Palisades between Malibu and Santa Monica suddenly shifted directions and a new Southwest wind started propelling the flames toward the Valley. But as...
Read MoreFrom my movie review in Taki's Magazine of A Complete Unknown: Read the whole thing
With lots of discussions about H-1B visas and the like, that raises the question of immigration to American brain-draining competence from foreign countries. That likely happens at, say, the theoretical physicist level but most poor countries don't really need theoretical physicists. What they do need is to keep the lights on. Are there places that...
Read MoreOver on X or Twitter or whatever, there's a good debate with me leading the charge to get Elon Musk to stick with his December 26th suggestion of just visas for top 0.1% of foreign talent rather than his suggestion today that scoring at the 50th percentile on the GRE would be okay.
The Brutalist, a very long movie by Brady Corbet about a Bauhaus architect who survives the Holocaust and arrives in America to toil for years as a day laborer before finally getting one shot at building a spectacular edifice, is one of most critically acclaimed movies of the year and a front-runner for end of...
Read MoreWell, it's been a fun year for me. Here's a question: Since the election, there seems to have begun a general cultural shift within institutions away from wokeness. The opposite happened the previous time Trump won in 2016. How come? And what's next?
From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing the
This is one of the funnier and crazier Democrat ploys: Senator Gillibrand (D-NY) wants to change the Constitution by having the National Archivist type the failed feminist Equal Rights Amendment, whose time limit to be ratified was up 42 years ago, into her Official Copy of the United States Constitution. Or something. 44 other Senators...
Read MoreIt's pretty amazing that there are a few ski hills within a 90 minute drive of the ten million residents of Los Angeles County. Then again, they aren't good ski resorts and are barely in business. I have no idea how they get employees to show up on the rare days when they are open....
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From a new book review of my anthology Noticing in Chronicles: The Crime of Noticing December 2024 By Auguste Meyrat Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023) by Steve Sailer Passage Publishing 458 pp., $29.95 When it comes to political and cultural commentary, Steve Sailer is one of the most influential writers whom most people have never...
Read MoreFrom my review of Gladiator II in Taki's Magazine: ... Denzel is quite good as the Iago-like villain Macrinus (in real life, Macrinus was a Caucasian North African, not a sub-Saharan African, who had Caracalla assassinated and briefly became Roman Emperor before losing his throne to the transgender Heliogabalus, who sounds like he would make...
Read MoreI would have been okay with Trump pardoning Hunter as a gesture of reconciliation.
From my new movie review in Taki's Magazine: The basic idea of Wicked, derived from gay Catholic children’s author Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel about the origin of evil, is that one frenemy (Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz) is born blonde and thus privileged like Billie Burke, while the other (Elphaba, based...
Read MoreWho knew that white women "enslavers" were wandering around in the African jungle, reducing free African natives to slavery? From the New York Times news section; Of course, until only a few years ago, the definition of the noun "enslaver" did not encompass slave-owning or slave-buying, but just, you know, enslaving: Eventually, however, it was...
Read MoreFrom my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
It's time for Donald Trump to award Pat Buchanan the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Pat's historic accomplishment was that after a lifetime of being a fervent Cold Warrior, he realized, at almost the moment that we won the Cold War, that the new reality demanded new, quite different policies. When much of Washington was assuming...
Read MoreFrom my new column in Taki's Magazine: So, What Happened? Steve Sailer November 13, 2024 ... One striking development is that the trend of Hispanics, especially Latino men, voting more for Trump that emerged in the poverty-stricken Rio Grande Valley of Texas in 2020 seems to have spread cross-country in 2024. Exit polls are inherently...
Read MoreAn interesting question is whether you can get voters to notice that seemingly obscure issues, ones more minor than The Economy, suggest that your opponents have gone nuts. For example, for over a decade, I've been pointing out that the Democrats' ardent promotion of transgender grievances validated my inference that the Democrats were following out...
Read MoreKamala Harris tweets out a photo of the late Quincy Jones putting his hand on her thigh: https://twitter.com/VP/status/1853584186634072307
When did baseball outfielders start to rob hitters of home runs by leaping up and reaching over the outfield fence? Here was probably the most famous catch in the World Series before Willie Mays' 1954 catch in very deep centerfield: in 1947 Al Gionfriddo catching a long drive by Joe DiMaggio that might have cleared...
Read MoreFrom The Economist: The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked again Science that fits the zeitgeist sometimes does not fit the data Oct 27th 2024 BLACK BABIES in America are more than twice as likely to die before their first birthday than white babies. This shocking statistic has barely changed for...
Read MoreLast Friday, I was struck by how Ancient Roman was Freddie Freeman's gesture after hitting his game-winning (and ultimately World Series-winning) extra inning grand slam: Tonight, reading the Associated Press account of Freeman winning the World Series MVP award, I see that the Gladiator flavor was not accidental: But the MVP award put a joyous...
Read MoreFrom my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
Whose song is it: The Ramones, Johnny Thunder and Heartbreakers, or Tim Walz?
Here's your chance to get it down in writing so in case you turn out right, it's on your permanent record.
New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Warriors is a highly stylized 1979 movie based on a 1966 novel based on Xenophon's Anabasis: Greek mercenaries were betrayed deep in the Persian Empire and had to fight their way to the sea. The modern adaptations move it to a gang-infested New York City, where one gang must fight their way home to...
Read MoreFrom my new Taki's Magazine column: Read the whole thing there.
From UnHerd: "Is Steve Sailer re-entering the conservative mainstream?" By Laura Duggan Oct 14, 2024 The author's book tour events have been selling out. … It’s here [Union Station in DC] that one of America’s most controversial writers, Steve Sailer, spoke Thursday evening, the latest stop on his long journey back toward the conservative mainstream....
Read MoreThis might be the first mention of the "Ferguson and Floyd Effects" in the national press: Some academics proposed the Minneapolis Effect as a geographic name to go with the Ferguson Effect, but Minneapolis is famous for a number of things, so the Minneapolis Effect sounds like it might have something to do with Prince...
Read MoreYou might think that left of center politicians around the First World, surveying how unpopular loose immigration is, would simply endorse tightening it up like the ruling Danish Swedish Democrats have. But, I suspect, that left of center people intuit that as sluttishly failing the Marshmallow Experiment. The Marshmallow Experiment is a famous study in...
Read MoreWhether or not the quasi-Nobel for economics is a real Nobel prize or not is a topic of perpetual argument. When doing demographic counts of who has earned a Nobel, I usually treat it as separate from the three hard science Nobels (physics, chemistry, and medicine/physiology). It's obviously more political: there aren't Republican and Democrat...
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Steve Sailer is a journalist, movie critic for Taki's Magazine, VDARE.com columnist, and founder of the Human Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals.