Current Articles of Interest

These are divided into two groups for easier reference. The first group, Technical Interest, contains recent articles from various scholarly journals on aspects of human origins and behavior that the Webmaster found interesting. The second group, General Interest, contains articles of more general interest and come from both popular magazines and more scholarly publications. Most of the publications from both groups are listed in the magazine section of the library on this web site. The articles are generally listed from the most recent to the oldest by interest group.

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Technical Interest

• "Evidence against Rushton: The genetic loading of WISC-R subtests and the causes of between-group IQ differences," James R. Flynn, Personality and Individual Differences, February 1999.
• "Secular gains in IQ not related to the g factor and inbreeding depression - unlike Black-White differences: A reply to Flynn," J. Philippe Rushton, Personality and Individual Differences, February 1999.
• "Reply to Rushton: A gang of gs overpowers factor analysis," James R. Flynn, Personality and Individual Differences, February 1999.
• Book Review - "The g Factor: The New Science of Mental Ability," Frank Schmidt, Personality and Individual Differences, January 1999.
• "Adoption Data and Two g-Related Hypotheses," Arthur R. Jensen, Intelligence, Vol. 25, No 1, 1998.
• "Cranial Size and IQ in Asian Americans From Birth to Age Seven," J. Phillipe Rushton, Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1998.
• "Special Issue - Intelligence and Social Policy," edited by Linda S. Gottfredson, Intelligence, Vol. 24, No. 1, January - February 1997.
• "Race, intelligence and the brain: the errors and omissions of the 'revised' edition of S. J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man," J. Philippe Rushton, Personality and Individual Differences, July 1997.
• "IQ and Economic Success," Charles Murray, The Public Interest, Number 128, Summer 1997.
• "Academic Achievement in African Americans and Whites: Are the Developmental Processes Similar?," David C. Rowe and Hobart H. Cleveland, Intelligence, November-December, 1996.
• "Intelligence and the Differentiation Hypothesis," Ian J. Deary, Vincent Egan, Gavin J. Gibson, Elizabeth J. Austin, Christopher R. Brand, and Thomas Kellaghan, Intelligence, September-October 1996.
• "A Critical Analysis of the Infant Health and Development," Alfred A. Baumeister and Verne R. Bacharach, Intelligence, September-October 1996.
• "Intelligence in Japan," Richard Lynn, Personality and Individual Differences, April 1997.
• "What Do We Know About Intelligence," Linda Gottfredson, The American Scholar, Winter 1996
• "Whatever happened to Eugenics?," Glayde Whitney, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Winter 1996.
• "The Evolution of Australoid and Amerindian Intelligence," Edward M. Miller, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Winter 1996.
• "Religion as a Factor Affecting Group Achievement," Richard Lynn, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Winter 1996.
• "Genetic and shared environmental influences on leisure-time interests in male adolescents," Yoon-Mi Hur, Matt McGue, and William G. Iacono, Personality and Individual Differences, November 1996.
• "A Discipline in Peril: Sociology's Future Hinges on Curing Its Biophobia," Lee Ellis, The American Sociologist, Summer 1996.
• "Sex Differences in Visual Spatial Ability in 9-Year-Old Children," Lillian Vedehus and Sturla Krekling, Intelligence, July August 1996.
• "Doing Something About g," Chris Brand, Intelligence, May-June 1996.
• "Professor Shockley's Experiment ," Glayde. Whitney, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, Fall 1996.
• "The 'Demographic Transition' and Cultural Evolution: A Candidate for Paradigmatic Imperialism ," Wade C. Mackey, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, Fall 1996.
• "Negative events experienced by self and predicted to have been experienced by others as related to political orientation," Robert H. Miyamoto, Ronald C. Johnson, and George P. Danko, Personality and Individual Differences, July 1996.
• "The LSAT and Affirmative Action in U. S. Law Schools," Dennis Nix, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1996.
• "Concealed Ovulation as a Strategy for Increasing per Capita Paternal Investment ," Edward M. Miller, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1996.
• "Intelligence and Inspection Time: Achievements, Prospects, and Problems," Ian J. Deary and Con Stough, American Psychologist, June, 1996.
• "Personality Measurement and Employment Decisions," Horgan, Horgan, & Roberts, American Psychologist, May, 1996.
• "Differences between males and females in mean IQ and university examination performance in Ireland," Richard Lynn, Personality and Individual Differences, May 1996.
• "Sex Differences and IQ," D. S. Alexopoulos, Personality and Individual Differences, April 1996.
• "Brain size and cognitive ability: Correlations with age, sex, social class, and race," J. Philippe Rushton and C. Davison Ankney, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1996, 3 (1), 21-36 .
• "The Mental Speed-IQ Relationship: Unitary or Modular?," Aljoscha C. Neubauer and Valentin Bucik, Intelligence, Jan-Feb 1996.

General Interest

• "Inside History's Dustbin," Samuel Francis, Chronicles, November 1998.
• "The Conscience Industry," Alexamder Cockburn, The Nation, November 9, 1998.
• "Why Race Matters," A review by Paul Gottfried, Society, November/December 1998.
• "Modern McCarthyism - a case study," Kevin Lamb, Right Now!, Issue 21, Oct. - Dec., 1998.
• "The immigration imbroglio," Derek Turner interviews Peter Brimelow, Right Now!, Issue 21, Oct. - Dec., 1998.
• "The Nature of Nurture," Steve Sailer, National Review, Oct. 12, 1998. (Review of Judith Rich Harris' The Nurture Assumption)
• "The social problems of race," Richard Lynn, The Salisbury Review, Summer 1998. (Review of Michael Levin's Why Race Matters)
• "You can't say that!," Antony Flew, The Salisbury Review, Spring 1998. (Review of Richard Lynn's Dysgenics)
• "The Other Face of Multiculturalism," by Samuel Francis, Chronicles, April 1998.
• "IQ in Review," Frank Miele, Skeptic, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1997.
• "'Eat People' - A Chinese Reckoning," Arthur Waldron, Commentary, July 1997.
• "Living Without Limits," Frank Miele, Skeptic, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1997.
• "Souled Out or Souled Short?," Frank Miele, Skeptic, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1997.
• "Nationalism: Good, Bad, and Invented," Martin Tyrrell, Liberty, July, 1997.
• "Ebonics: Bridge to Illiteracy," Nicholas Stix, Liberty, July, 1997.
• "The New Creationionists: What's behind the Neoconsevative on Darwin?," Ronald Bailey, Reason, July, 1997.
• "Special Section: Immigration and Politics," National Review, June 16, 1997.
• "Going Back," Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New Republic, June 16, 1997.
• "The More Things Change," Keith B. Richburg, The New Republic, June 16, 1997.
• "The New Creationism," Barbara Ehrenreich and Janet McIntoch, The Nation, June 9, 1997.
• "The Dualist [a review of Whittaker Chambers].," Tony Judt, The New Republic, April 14, 1997.
• "Final Verdict [the Rosenbergs].," Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, April 7, 1997.
• "Hanging with our Friends," Thomas Fleming, Chronicles, April 1997.
• "Peking, Honk Kong, and the US," Jonathan Mirsky, (A review of Richard Berstein and Ross H. Munro's The Coming Conflict with China), The New York Review of Books, April 24, 1997.
• "Sybil - The making of a Disease: An Interview," Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, The New York Review of Books, April 24, 1997.
• "Day of the Race Men," Tamar Jacoby, Commentary, April 1997.
• "Black Studies Revisited," John H. Bunzel & Anita Susan Grossman, The Public Interest, Spring 1997.
• "How to Mend Affirmative Action," Glen C. Loury, The Public Interest, Spring 1997.
• "Why Race Matters: A Preview,"Michael Levin, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Fall 1996.
• "The Epoch of National Socialism,"Karlheinz Weissman, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Fall 1996.
• "The Warrior Tradition," James Webb, The American Enterprise, March/April 1997.
• "Public Health Pot Shots," Don B. Kates, et al., Reason, April 1997.
• "Diversity in the Human Genome,"Glayde Whitney, American Renaissance, March 1997.
• "Don't You D.A.R.E.," Stephen Glass, The New Republic, March 3, 1997.
• "First Things Last," Samuel Francis, Chronicles, March 1997.
• "Crime is down...No, it's up...No, it's down," Peter Brimelow, Forbes, February 24, 1997.
• "Sex and the Soldier," Stephanie Gutmann, The New Republic, February 24, 1997.
• "IQ, Race, and PC," Kevin Lamb, National Review, January 27, 1997.
• "Decline of the West?," William H. McNeill, (A review of Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order), The New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997.
• "Billions and Billions of Demons," Richard Lowontin, (A review of Carl Sagan's last book The Demon -Haunted World), The New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997.
• "Rebel With A Cause," Michael Shermer/Frank Sulloway, Skeptic, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1996.
• "Introduction," Paul Piccone, Telos, Number 106, Winter 1996.
• "The Bloods and the Crits," Jeffry Rosen, The New Republic, December 9, 1996.
• "The School Catastrophe," Peter Brimelow, Forbes, November 4, 1996.
• "The Strawman State," Paul Piccone (Editor of Telos), Liberty, November 1996.
• "Syposium: Licensing Parents," David T. Lykken, etal, Society, November/December 1996.
• "The Ten Commandments of Community," Richard D. Lamm, Chronicles, November, 1996.
• "A commentary on The Immigration Mystique," Senator Eugene McCarthy, Chronicles, November, 1996.
• "Is Patriarchy Inevitable?," Steven Goldberg, National Review, November 11, 1996.
• "Review and Extention of Heredity and Humanity," Edward M. Miller, Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 21, No.3, Fall, 1996.
• "Social Justice is not Justice," Antony Flew, RightNOW!, October/December 1996.
• "Egalitarian Dogmas," J. Philippe Rushton, RightNOW!, October/December 1996.
• "Doomsterism," Paul Kennedy, (A review of Robert D. Kaplan's The Ends of the Earth), The New York Review of Books, September 19, 1996.
• "In Pursuit of Fairness," Ian Hacking, (A review of Amartya Sen's Inequality Reexamined), The New York Review of Books, September 19, 1996.
• "The Welfare Rap: Why black men hate it," Bill Stephney, The New Republic, September 16/23, 1996.
• "Affirmative Action Goes to College," Bob Zelnick, The American Enterprise, Sept/Oct 1996.
• "Separate and Unqual at Cornell," Kenneth Lee, The American Enterprise, Sept/Oct 1996.
• "Great Black Hopes," Steve Sailor, National Review, August 12, 1996
• "Interview with Professor Hans Eysenck," Right NOW!, July-September 1996.
• "The Impact of Immigration on U. S. Demographics," Joseph E. Fallon, Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer, 1996.
• "The g Factor: The Book and the Controversy," Edward M. Miller, Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer, 1996.
• "A Church Arson Epidemic? It's Smoke and Mirrors," Michael Fumento, editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 1996.
• "Appendix I: Threats to Freedom of the Press," Ranier Zitelmann, Telos, Vol 105, Fall 1996 (mislabeled as Fall 1995).
• "Race and Social Science," Hugh Murray, Telos, Vol 105, Fall 1996 (mislabeled as Fall 1995).
• "Commentary: On Family Life," Lionel Tiger, US News & World Report, July 1, 1996.
• "Black-on-Black Violence," James W. Clarke, Society, July/August 1996.
• "Break Up the Monoculture", Helena Norberg-Hodge, The Nation, July 15/22, 1996.
• "Men, Women and Sex Differences: The Attitudes of Three Feminists," Russel Eisenman, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1996.
• "Can the Mummy Walk?," Samuel Francis, The American Enterprise, July/August 1996.
• "Goodbye to Affirmative Action?," Andrew Hacker, The New York Review of Books, July 11, 1996.
• "The Shadow Saint," Murray Kempton, The New York Review of Books, July 11, 1996.
• "Stalin and the Jews," Robert Conquest, The New York Review of Books, July 11, 1996.
• "Polemics and Exchanges," Linda Chavez /Samuel Francis, Chronicles, July 1996.
• "Truth and Consequences," Steven Goldberg, Chronicles, July 1996.
• "Christian Socialism in Britain," Irwin Stelzer, The Public Interest, Summer 1996.
• "The Peoples Law School," Partick Manshardt, The Defender, May/June 1996.
• "Do Prohibitions of Hate Speech Harm Public Discourse," Paul Gottfried, Insight on the News, June 24, 1996.
• "How Black was Athena-Anxieties of Influence," Jasper Griffen, The New York Review of Books, June 20, 1996.
• "TRB:The Heretic"(Ronald Radosh), John B. Judis, The New Republic, June 17, 1996.
• "White-Shoed Supremacy", Leonard Zeskind, The Nation, June 10, 1996.
• "Political Science," Frank Salter, National Review, June 3, 1996.
• "Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?," Peter G. Peterson, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1996 - with online link.
• "Alien Nation: Round 2," Peter Brimelow, National Review, April 22, 1996.
• "All Quiet on the (Post) Western Front," Clifford Orwin, The Public Interest, Spring 1996.
• "A Permanent International Divide? Human Abilities and National Development," Seymour W. Itzkoff, The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 1996.
• "Godless Conservatism," Roger Scruton , editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 1996.