We’ve been focusing a bit on white racism recently. I use the adjective “white” in contradiction of the PC-Left principle that racism = race + power and only whites have power, ergo, only whites can be racist. I think that racism can exist without power, though power amplifies & highlights the phenomena [1]. The genocides […]

Vinod goes to Iceland. He is both politic and insensitive, terming the Celtic slaves “indentured servants,” and Icelandic a “pidgin” language. I enjoyed the links to the night-life that showed some chicks…. Godless comments: Wow. It seem like even Iceland is becoming multicultural. Of its own volition: Iceland is usually seen as one of the […]

I’ve attached an article from The New Republic that requires access about the conservative love-affair with counter-revolutionaries (interventionist conservatives that is). ARE FOREIGN REBEL LEADERS DUPING THE AMERICAN RIGHT, AGAIN? Founding Fakers by Franklin Foer Post date: 08.11.03 Issue date: 08.18.03 n April 6, a C-17 transport plane unloaded Ahmed Chalabi in Nasiriya, the Iraqi […]

It is a familiar idea in evolutionary biology that sexual selection may produce some trait despite its being disadvantageous to general fitness. The peacock’s tail is a classic example. The Handicap Principle goes a step further by claiming that some traits are selected precisely because they are disadvantageous. The HP was first put forward by […]

ParaPundit has another post up addressing Muslim immigration into the West. Randall states: The more Muslims that come to Australia (or any other Western nation) the more there will be to complain and lobby for allowing more to come and to allow more radical ones to come. Until Islam grows up and goes thru something […]

Why is Africa so poor? asks an article in Frontpage Magazine. Like many mainstream conservative outlets, they diagnose the symptoms well enough, lack of civil society & clean transparent government, but they neglect to be very specific about a course of treatment (corrupt international agencies & toothless NGOs?). Granted, this is better than much of […]

Reason has a long interview with the head of a libertarian Islamic think tank-Minaret of Freedom. He has some interesting opinions, though he repeats the old canard that the West would never have had any knowledge of Aristotle without the Muslims, neglecting the influx of Greek scholars into Italy in the mid-15th century with the […]

This is an FAQ entry to address complaints about the posting material that shows up on GNXP. The title of the blog is GENE EXPRESSION, and its general mantra is to inject biological science, especially evolutionary theory, into public & social policy in as frank, direct and honest way possible (ergo, we break taboos, especially […]

This article in Beliefnet strikes me as rather strange. The author is a Muslim who is a medical doctor-not someone who has specialized knowledge in Islam-and his rendering of the faith (all the stuff about God’s forgiveness and ability to redeem humans, etc.) strikes me as very Protestant, in the American context, almost Evangelical. The […]

This is a genuine question, not a rhetorical one. From the mid-70s up to about 1990, there was controversy about the punctuated equilibrium theory of evolution. You could hardly open a scientific magazine like New Scientist or Scientific American without finding some new argument. But from 1990 onwards interest in the subject seems to have […]

There has been some recent question about my ethnicity, with godless saying that I am of Iberian Spanish descent, and razib saying that I am Irish American. In fact, they are both right, but just so I don’t get pigeonholed I’ll be thorough about the crazy quilt that is my genetic heritage. On a board […]

So, we’re going to send troops to Liberia. Since the United States ran it as a quasi-colony, I suppose we have some special obligation. But after reading Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith the idea of American troops in Africa only depresses me. Robert Mugabe was taught […]

Richard Dawkins is trying to form some sort of movement to get atheists or non-theists called ‘brights’. His explanation: A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word “gay”. I used to mourn the loss of gay in (what I still think of as) its true sense. But on the bright side […]

Nick Thompson says that the Republicans have a science problem-as much political & cultural as it is technical. One thing Nick overlooks is that most “scientists” in America today are probably engineers, not Ph.D.s in the natural sciences, and they trend Republican…. Update from Razib: Larson & Witham’s surveys of Ph.D. holding natural scientists in […]

Ikram Saeed links to a Queer Muslim conference. Yeah. The article Ikram linked to had this image as an advert on the left bar: I just wanted to pass along the blasphemy to any orthodox Muslims reading this site…. Also, Ikram highlights this woman: So, in the fall of 1999, witnessed by two of my […]

Clothing Chain Accused of Discrimination. So it seems Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing brand that appeals to annoying frat boys, hires people that can relate to such individuals. What a surprise! Yeah, I’m sure it’s discrimination under the law, but check this out: “If you look at a store like Banana Republic,” Mr. Gonzalez said, […]

Larry Auster over at View From the Right challenges secular white racialists, can the race survive without Christianity? Being neither white, nor a racialist, and never having a direct connection with the Christian faith, I’m really not invested in this argument, but I will admit that I view the Christian racialists with the same amusement […]

American readers may be amused by the following as an example of cultural diversity between genetically similar populations. Here in Britain, there has recently been a survey of a major group of public employees on their attitudes towards guns. 78 per cent of the group said they would be opposed to routinely carrying firearms during […]

I mentioned that I have been reading Steve Jones’s book Y: The Descent of Men. It’s brilliantly written, often very funny, and full of fascinating information, most of which is probably true. I’m not going to give a detailed critique, but as a general weakness, the book doesn’t present much in the way of systematic […]

Surely, times have changed, when a online magazine with the title Beliefnet could publish an article titled Should Catholics Proselytize?. Personally, I prefer Opus Dei to the trashy mega-churches that dot the landscape of Americana. As someone who once had the Diderot quote “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with […]