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Husband, father, social scientist, writer, Madisonian. Or maybe right-wing ideologue, pseudoscientist, evil. Opinions differ.

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1Oct 16, '25I am persuaded that feminization is the most portentous trend in American culture, and this is an excellent explanation of why. It is also wonderfully written. E.g., "Women can sue287×6.6M16k1.2k4.1k
2Nov 13, '25Agreed. Gen Z needs to realize what people accepted as a normal first home in the 50s. In Newton, Iowa, it was about 1,000-1,500 sq ft, small living room, two small bedrooms, small88.2×2M2.9k190364
3Mar 25, '24If you spend any significant amount of your life around people with lower IQs than yours, you can't help but notice how many of them are better people than you in qualities that yo66.4×1.5M3.6k3071.5k
4Dec 10, '23I've got a sure-fire way for the presidents of Harvard & MIT to prove they're not hypocritical about their new-found allegiance to free speech. Invite me to give a lecture on race 63.2×1.5M8k1.1k314
5May 25, '24Excellent article and astounding graphic.62×1.4M1.8k476458
6Feb 23, '24More precisely, it rewarded systematic test prep, period, and it turns out that the people who work the hardest on test prep are Asian students and the white children of the afflue45.2×1M3.4k482898
7Nov 23, '241/2 Advice for small colleges with good-but-not-top-tier prestige: The first among you to announce that henceforth admissions will be based exclusively on test scores will immediat42×969k9.7k863625
8Feb 5, '24Last night I was talking to someone who has access to NIH’s All of Us database. He described the limits researchers must accept, including no study of IQ. Also no topic that might 36.1×831k4.2k513630
9Aug 7, '25I would think that the minimum age for getting this joke is around 80.32.6×751k23k1.8k277
10Jul 12, '25That anyone can come to America and become an American. Not 180 degrees. Rather, I think that Islam is inherently incompatible with liberal democracy.31.1×717k5.3k462282
11Oct 5, '25Most non-STEM majors at elite universities have no idea what serious intellectual demands feel like. They're smart with words. Being smart with math is a different ballgame. I wish30.4×701k5.7k4041.6k
12Oct 13, '23I’m tanned, rested, and ready.30×691k2.6k22682
13Aug 10, '25BREAKING: Not a single solitary incoming freshman self-identified as White in the Harvard Class of 2028. Or maybe I'm missing something.25.7×591k11k1.3k961
14Sep 28, '25I wish more people had read this book. I wish it had been reviewed by outlets that had previously reviewed my books. I wish it had been discussed by people who previously discussed22.3×514k1.9k206401
15Jun 21, '25I’m curious how many people reading this thread know WHY the British public schools taught Latin and. Greek. Hint: it wasn’t so they could read the classics in the original.21.4×494k4.5k213977
16May 28, '24Every graduate student in every discipline should encounter an "I can't do this" moment--it's something all other students have encountered, some as early as grade school. Too few 20.2×465k2.5k318518
17Jul 6, '25Why shouldn't an able-bodied working-aged person in a full employment economy be expected to work at least 40 hours a week as a minimal civic duty before asking for economic help f18.9×436k4.1k314143
18Oct 11, '25I am another of those who cannot square the Tucker Carlson of 2025 with the younger, scourge-of-bullshit Tucker of Weekly Standard days. It has been painful to watch. Back in 2021,18.1×417k1.6k162219
19Oct 14, '25The 1850 Census shows a white literacy rate of 89.8%17.8×409k14k393655
20Oct 27, '25Really?16.9×390k2.1k68189
21Aug 20, '25I don't know who this guy is, but he gets across research findings about parenting better than anyone I've ever heard or read, and that includes the descriptions I've written.16.5×381k3.8k4613k
22May 22, '24The extremely IQ scores reported from the global South, especially Africa, have been dismissed as nonsense by the clerisy. This article is the latest of the systematic reviews that16.4×378k1.7k173858
23Aug 26, '25Occasionally on X one encounters an insight that borders on genius. Neither will I.15.4×354k2.8k80255
24Aug 22, '25A Republican president. Bring on the TDS responses. If you call yourself conservative and can stomach this, you’re beyond help.15.1×347k2.5k186120
25Jul 21, '23If 84 percent of people arrested for armed robbery are male but only 49 percent of the population is male, should we infer that police are biased against males?13.2×303k3.6k503279
26May 27, '25Prompted by the hand-wringing over the consequences of reducing foreign students at Harvard, I looked through the Harvard freshman register for my class (1965). The class arriving 13×301k6.5k767377
27Feb 17, '25Never has my opinion of someone changed so radically and irrevocably.13×299k8.7k558115
28Nov 8, '25One morning around four or five years ago, I got a phone call from James Watson. I was startled. I had met him only once, at a conference at Cold Spring Harbor in the mid-1990s and13×299k6.9k860976
29Jul 29, '25For decades, Minnesota was a standard Midwestern state with a mild tilt toward the left--Humphrey, Mondale, etc.--but culturally pretty much like Iowa, where I grew up. What happen11.7×271k4.4k258196
30Jul 29, '25A curious phenomenon of the last decade has been the willingness of corporations to air commercials that portray whites and especially white males as clumsy and clueless, knowing t11.3×261k7.4k479252
31Apr 17, '24This is more devastating than the silly tweets. It is a prepared & rehearsed repudiation of the journalist's historic responsibility and contradicts what NPR once claimed to be11.1×256k4.6k896335
32Feb 20, '23For those of you who are not familiar with the Vietnam Era, this was tried by LBJ in 1966 with Project 100,000, which lowered the minimum required score for the Armed Forces Qualif11.1×255k1.5k198155
33Jan 8, '25LA has flung open a huge Overton window.10.2×236k4k232165
34May 7, '231/3 A friend who shall remain nameless suggested something last week that I can't shake: The pronouncements of progressive politicians, woke academics, and senior bureaucrats incre10.1×234k1.5k185157
35Oct 6, '24Now mark the trend line with the year in which federal safety regulations on cars were introduced.10.0×230k2.1k142230
36May 25, '24It can't be said often enough: UCLA's med school can easily refute the criticisms if they are false. Just release the data disproving them. The information exists in its files. Jus9.6×221k2.5k38466
37Apr 24, '25It's hard to exaggerate the harm done to the American Experiment by the disparate impact doctrine. Its logic was empirically indefensible. Its implementation was mindless. Overturn9.3×213k4.5k723287
38Jul 31, '25I got a laugh from a Swedish audience (hard to do) by saying “almost any system of govt will work if you’re governing Swedes.” But that was in the 1980s.9.2×211k3.1k152252
39Sep 9, '25For those who wonder why, it turns out that bright children don't have big vocabularies primarily because they are systematically exposed to a broader range of words--the books-in-9.2×211k3.1k224787
40Aug 7, '25This is a great response, but there's also a lot of truth to it, at least for me and my male friends. It would be helpful if women could eavesdrop on our conversations. They're not8.8×202k3k130409
41Mar 27, '24That the two most cited scholars in the humanities are Judith Butler and Foucault gives you all you need to prove that the humanities imploded in the 20th century.8.5×196k2.1k342222
42Jan 18, '25I wonder how small a fraction of one percent get this joke.8.5×196k2k13198
43Jun 26, '25The man wrote it in his late eighties. The voice is that of a young man. An extremely brilliant and erudite young man.8.5×195k2.2k1501.5k
44Aug 9, '25Yes.8.4×194k2.8k13264
45Jan 18, '23As long as the topic does not involve sex, race, class, genetics, IQ, illegal immigration, the effects of social policy, constitutional law, or life in flyover country. On everythi7.3×169k1.6k19353
46Oct 24, '25I'm still waiting to read something by David French that doesn't irritate me. Even when I agree with the substance, the sanctimony drives me nuts. In this case, I wholly disagree w7.3×168k1.9k139117
47May 22, '25Yesterday, a friend saw a top medical specialist after being treated by an ordinarily qualified specialist in that field. "It was like going from a Model T to a Lamborghini." Which7.1×164k2.1k63255
48Jul 9, '241/3 It seems so obvious. Our worst domestic problems have simple, lawful, and Constitutional solutions. 1. Disputed elections. Registration for voting requires proof of citizenship6.9×159k2.3k323192
50Aug 29, '25I’ve had men explain IQ to me for ten minutes after knowing that I was coauthor of TBC. What should I make of this? Anything except that people can be oblivious?6.2×144k2.7k56151
51Sep 23, '24She’s blunt, confrontational—and in my experience scrupulously accurate in her statements of fact. Obviously she has no place in today’s academia.6.0×137k3.2k347100
52Sep 5, '25Identifying children who are even 1 SD above the mean on all three should be on the priority list for K-12 education. They are a precious resource--the appropriate spine of civil s5.3×123k2.1k203421
53Sep 6, '17This is sad: I will be unable to walk across Harvard Yard tomorrow, on paths I have walked thousands of times. Need a police escort.5.1×05.2k2.1k0
54Mar 24, '25Just to clarify: top performance in math, physics, and engineering is not "likely" to be correlated with IQ, but known without the slightest doubt to be highly correlated. The corr4.9×112k1.7k136200
55Mar 4, '25I am bemused by the same phenomenon. I’ve been harshly critical of Trump the man (and haven’t changed my opinion), but I’m ecstatic about DOGE and attempts to defang the administra4.8×112k2.1k16457
56May 31, '24We're eight years in to my ten year time frame, and so far the social sciences (1) have been corrupted beyond anything even I imagined, and (2) that form of social science apparent4.8×111k1.8k350289
57Oct 12, '25No thanks.4.8×109k1.6k5323
58Sep 7, '24Thomas Sowell keeps saying the things I think more vividly than I can say them. It's depressing.4.6×105k2.3k296208
59May 15, '24No, it should call into question the decision to release them.4.4×100k2.7k27149
61Aug 24, '22This is from an editorial announcing Nature Human Behavior's decision to censor scientific results, however rigorous, that do not conform to a political narrative. It is hard to ex4.1×04.1k1.2k628
62Nov 17, '19My daughter's immigrant friend, asked during her dissertation defense why she had not dealt with the Marxist interpretation of her topic: "I grew up in Eastern Europe during the Co4.1×05.2k1.2k234
63Aug 11, '24I have a sinking feeling that I've been relegated to second place in the most-evil-Murray competition.3.9×90k2.1k12534
64May 6, '25I have yet to see @jk_rowling put a step wrong during the firestorm she's been through.3.8×88k4.3k16631
65Oct 6, '24This has got to be a parody account. This cannot be a real quote. Surely.3.6×84k1.9k155115
66Sep 3, '25Because never before have schools been lavishly funded to do the same thing and failed. If you don’t count Kansas City. The Gates Foundation. The…. Oh, never mind.3.6×83k1.6k109169
67Jul 3, '24I've become a big fan of . The overall vibe is mildly liberal (which is fine with me; some of my best friends are liberals), but it pulls no punches. Here's the opening of Nellie B3.6×83k2.4k326162
68Sep 1, '25Somebody should put together a list of things on which most academics have been scientifically, demonstrably wrong for years for ideological reasons. There have been lots since the3.6×83k1.6k77247
69Aug 26, '25I have loved Teddy Roosevelt's declamation on immigrants and immigration for many years, but now is a good time for his eloquence to be more widely known. I will also specify that 3.5×80k1.8k462597
70Jun 1, '25Noah, did you forget your coffee this morning? What hereditarian has ever doubted the malleability of heritable traits given systematic breeding? How could they?3.4×77k1.6k5585
71Feb 5, '25I fear yours may be no higher than 72%. And I'm an expert.3.4×77k2.2k8136
72Mar 7, '24The reason ordinary Americans despise the elites. Or at least the reason I do.3.3×76k1.5k12552
73Oct 14, '25If you still have any letters written by great-grandparents in your house, you can probably verify this for yourself.3.2×75k2k5597
75May 12, '24I have a crush on J.K. Rowling.3.1×71k1.9k6924
76Sep 23, '25I think I should state more explicitly what I think about assimilation and immigration. 1. Historically, America did a sensational job of assimilating a wide range of ethnicities--3.0×70k2.3k416478
77Oct 4, '21Scanning the headlines in the Washington Post and New York Times every day is pretty astonishing if you grew up in an era when their editors still saw themselves--or said they did-2.8×04.3k63756
78Nov 1, '17140 characters teach character. 280 characters teach slovenliness, self-indulgence, and every one of Aristotle's logical fallacies.2.7×03.8k8070
79May 25, '24I'm worried about the other 16 kids.2.5×58k1.9k16212
80Jul 4, '25We need a word that means “legitimate fear that Islam is inherently incompatible with Western civilization and liberal political institutions.”2.5×57k1.8k22785
81Oct 15, '17It's hard to exaggerate how carefully the Founders examined the history of democracies & how clearly they saw the dangers. We've forgotten.2.4×02.6k1.1k1
82Dec 14, '221/4 I've come to think over the last 20 years that secular humanism has no moral bottom. Absent a core of absolutes of right and wrong, anything can be rationalized. Absent some di2.2×02.3k434331
84May 17, '17We knew how Citizen Trump had lived his life for 70 years when we voted. Everything President Trump has done is consistent with that record.2.0×02.5k7201
85Oct 20, '22I resist saying something is a must-read. This one is.1.9×01.8k492511
87Aug 5, '17The price Google pays for hiring extremely smart, well-read people: Some of them cut through the bullshit.1.8×01.8k8150
88Apr 27, '17Saying yes to a student group's invitation to lecture = eagerly throwing myself into a volatile situation. Bullshit.1.8×01.7k8360
89Dec 10, '18Twitter has suspended @TitaniaMcGrath. This is a big deal. She wasn't obscene, cruel, or hateful. She was simply a terrific satirist. @clairlemon is on the case, so Quillette will 1.7×02.1k5725
90Feb 1, '25It's bizarre that he didn't get one long ago.1.5×34k1.7k15215
91May 25, '18Given the track record of experts' nutritional advice over the last few decades: Adopt a diet consisting exclusively of alcohol, sausage, and bacon.1.4×01.9k4710
92Nov 18, '18If it's a rape charge, it damn well better be a criminal court room.1.4×02.2k3375
93Dec 29, '19I've been having this exchange for 35 years. Me in green.1.4×02.1k32031
94Jun 7, '20The "abolish the police" movement is the final piece needed to replicate the mentality of the New Left in the late 1960s--positions so crazy that only people completely out of touc1.3×01.8k39035
95Mar 5, '17Well, it's hard to know where to begin.1.2×01.7k4090
96Nov 3, '20Every police chief in America should be talking this way. And every mayor.1.2×01.7k278116
97Oct 6, '21I was searching for bios of black scholars who are Thomas Sowell's (b. 1930) contemporaries, so I Googled "famous black scholars" and variants. Try it yourself and see how long it 1.2×01.8k22024
98Jul 23, '25Nowhere in this article does it mention that all the major late night shows are openly contemptuous of half of the American population. Seems relevant.1.1×26k1.9k17729
99Sep 6, '17Harvard did itself proud. Attentive audience, tough questions, super-professional security. Congrats & thanks to @harvardfree.1.1×01.6k2230
100Jan 5, '19More evidence today that one thing the far left and the far MAGA right have in common is a desperate need to lighten up.1.0×01.7k1905
101Apr 5, '18I've always wanted to write for a major magazine.1.0×01.4k2133

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