It’s open season on so-called ‘soy boys’, a neologism for effeminate, weak (‘limp-wristed’) liberal males. This archetype is the target of derision and ridicule by many on the ‘right’. An example of the quintessential soy boy is the Obamacare ‘pajama boy,’ whose perceived effeminacy generated more ridicule than Obamacare signups, and there is even a… Continue reading Why Soys and Virgins Rule

This article went hugely viral: Let Children Get Bored Again: Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. The viralness of the article is part of a greater backlash and criticism of modernity by both the high-IQ left and the high-IQ right, which makes it a… Continue reading The Benefits of Boredom

Came across this meta analysis The Jewish Advantage: Jews are Intelligent and High-Achieving, that suggests Jewish high achievement is due to 9-15 point IQ advantage over gentiles. Regarding the first question, Lynn has supplied a wealth of data suggesting that the average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is between 109 and 115 depending on the type… Continue reading The Jewish Advantage

Online, there is no shortage of lengthy, well-written, insightful articles about philosophy, literature, and politics, even though these subjects don’t in any way lend themselves to moentization, yet articles about actionable stuff (such as finance or crypto-currency), in which an obvious financial incentive exists for quality, are typically of poor quality, full of ads, vague… Continue reading The Capitalism Quality Paradox

With the S&P 500 up another 1.5% today and Facebook reporting yet another quarter of blow-out earning (Facebook stock is going to $250 soon and I remain ‘long, and I recommend people buy), why is America, its economy, and its companies so dominant, but also why is America stable, too? You have all these headlines… Continue reading Explaining America’s Economic and Global Dominance

Ross Douthat describes the rise of Paganism in America, but I think it’s closer to secular Calvinism, that is embraced by a lot of otherwise secular young people today. Here are the five tenets of Calvinism: Total Depravity/Inability: This is saying that man is hopelessly sinful. Man is incapable of being “good.” Any “good” deed… Continue reading Secular Calvinism

At the end of Taleb on IQ: more responses, debunking IQ cultural bias, and the philosophy of Taleb’s liberalism, I write: Some critics may concede that although Taleb is wrong only about IQ, he is a genius at other stuff, but as I will discuss in further detail in an upcoming post, Taleb has no… Continue reading Criticism of Taleb (about non-IQ stuff)

From CNN Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has identified $7 billion for wall: According to options being considered, the administration could pull: $681 million from Treasury forfeiture funds, $3.6 billion in military construction, $3 billion in Pentagon civil works funds, and $200 million in Department of Homeland Security funds, the official said.… Continue reading Trump, wall, and shutdown: what happens next

Articles such as The Tide Is Turning Against “Gender Studies”—Just Not Fast Enough are commonplace on Quillette.com and Unz.com, and cartoons and memes ridiculing or blaming gender studies for the ‘decline/death of America’, frequently go viral. Upon encountering such arguments, one may be inclined to believe that there is an overwhelming oversupply supply of unemployable… Continue reading How popular is gender studies?

In October 2018, I wrote that the Ethereum management is too inept to get the Constantinople fork to work: Ethereum has been done-in by an inherently flawed concept, too much inflation and supply, and inability to release promised upgrades. ETH is burdened by ICO selling and too much overhead supply from early investors and mining… Continue reading Huge Ethereum delay: another correct prediction