WaPo reports the end of the dominance of the Democratic Party over the Jewish vote, with Orthodox Jews now turning to the GOP. Jews, however, were different. As late as 2000, Al Gore and his Orthodox running mate, Joe Lieberman, didn’t just win most of the Jewish vote, they won a large majority among Orthodox […]

John Hospers, in his “An Open Letter to Libertarians” published on Tom Palmer‘s site, has come out in favor of President Bush. Many of his reasons are similar to my own, so check it out! Posted by Arcane at 02:44 PM

An evangelical journalist Lee Strobel offers “13 reasons to believe God created the universe.” Strobel says: In contrast, however, the portrait of the Creator that emerges from the scientific data is uncannily consistent with the description of the God whose identity is spelled out in the pages of the Bible. I disagree, but who cares. […]

My new blog is up (yes GNXP is branching out in all different directions) check it out. Posted by scottm at 08:56 PM

Steve Sailer will be on FOX NEWS Tuesday at 8:44 AM Eastern Time. Contra Dog of Justice over at Thras’s blog this Kerry/Bush/IQ story has turned into a major scoop. Posted by razib at 10:30 AM

I have a new post up at GNXP Sci-Fi that may be applicable to regular GNXP. Posted by scottm at 08:10 PM

BBC 4′s In our Time has some excellent 45 minute discussions with intellectuals about major topics archived. For example…. Out of the history archive, Romans in Britain. Out of the science archive, The Physics of Reality. Out of the religion archive, The Norse Gods. Out of the culture archive, The Scottish Enlightenment. Out of the […]

John Tooby relates this nice anecdote in an old Slate piece:Bill Hamilton of Oxford, originator of the concept of inclusive fitness and other theories fundamental to modern evolutionary biology, winner of the Kyoto and Crafoord Prizes, and first president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, gave a toast at a banquet at an evolutionary […]

Via Sepia comes this article in The New York Times about caste in the United States. Being from a Muslim family I’ve never heard anything about caste in the United States. After getting to know a few brown Americans in more detail caste has been mentioned now and then so I have inquired among brown […]

Link from Steve Sailer. You aren’t as smart as you think you are. Wow. Just read it. Posted by Thrasymachus at 04:41 PM

If you thought the European Union was a regulatory nightmare, wait until you read this. (Hat tip to Lawrence Auster for linking this) Posted by Arcane at 05:22 PM

The post on Turkey & religiosity meandered off into a strange direction: about how much the ladies like guys that treat them like crap. A few years ago I was a total jackass to this girl who I was kind of seeing in Portland. I didn’t call her back, I cancelled dates 5 minutes ahead […]

I came across this footnote in Burton’s translation of the Arabian Nights: This prominence of the glutaei muscles is always insisted upon, because it is supposed to promise well in a bed-fellow. In Somali-land, where the people are sub-steatopygous, a rich young man, who can afford such luxury, will have the girls drawn up in […]

Many of you have asked in the comments sections and such as to why I voted for President Bush. I have finally uploaded a Q&A dialogue that should pretty much answer your questions in regards to this. You can read it here or click on the extended entry… As many of you know, and some […]

Ultradarwinian analyzes some of the biases of P.Z. Myers. (some of you might have noticed that Ultradarwinian is now a GNXP subdomain, after his webhost went down I figured that dinosaurs of a feather flock together, so I engaged in a bit of kin selection and offered him refuge here) Posted by razib at 02:23 […]

I’m sure all GNXPers will join with me in celebrating a happy 6,000th birthday to the universe. Posted by Thrasymachus at 12:34 AM

Is it just me or did Kurt Vonnegut predict the future of “no child left behind” in the short story Harrison Bergeron. Posted by scottm at 12:59 AM

They are talking about the fact that the human genome is smaller than expected on Science Friday, and one of the guests, I believe Dr. Francis Collins, just asserted that by 2010 or 2015 he expects that an individual could get their full genome sequenced for less than $1000 in less than a week. Posted […]

Sanskrit Boy pointed me to this page that has collected (as of my last count) 3,100 signatures protesting The New York Times’s less than laudatory obit of the late Jaques Derrida. It is a common truism that Derrida had more influence in literary criticism than in mainstream philosophy, but I thought that this was a […]

I offer two aphorisms already aware that they are on shaky ground, but I can’t resist: Philosophy: complex answers to simple questions. Religion: Simple answers to complex questions. Posted by razib at 12:39 PM