Razib Khan

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  • Intelligence: All That Matters Recommends

    and there’s a good chance you may never need another work of psychometrics to be up to speed.

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  • From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life Loved

    Few will deeply read as many works of literature across the Western canon as Barzun did, given his exceptionally long career in academia, but From Dawn to Decadence grants the humble reader an extraordinary vantage, thanks to Barzun’s vast corpus of knowledge and his perspicacious observations about cultural currents across half a millennium.

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  • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter Loved

    A decade on, it already feels possible that in the future, commentators will argue that this specific fruitful synthesis lit the fuse on evolutionary cultural anthropology’s explosion (with due apologies to earlier books from L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, E. O. Wilson, Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd).

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  • The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization Recommends

    The genius of this work is its interdisciplinary scope.

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  • Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond Loved

    Though written accessibly, Segerstrale’s narrative rewards repeat reading, because it is so dense with historical detail that remains relevant today.

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  • Brian Chau: noticing with technology + investigative journalism 3 Sept
  • Kyle Orton: Muslims before Islam 27 Aug
  • Gabriel Rossman: the late marvelous Dr. Arday and the state of sociology 21 Aug
  • The rise of the hopeful monsters: the true story of humanity 20 Aug
  • Monologue: Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas and the wages of DEI 16 Aug
  • Nikolai Yakovenko: the wages of the Hugging Face hack 12 Aug

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  • Werner Zagrebbi: Adventures in Forbidden Data 7 Aug
  • Collin Hogue-Spears: How AI Works in China 30 Jul
  • Maxwell Meyer: magazines in a digital age 25 Jul
  • Daniel Di Martino: a Latino immigrant on immigration (and Venezuela) 17 Jul
  • Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer: noticing the kakistocracy 10 Jul
  • Jason Scharf: Austin's present and future as Texas' tech hub 4 Jul
  • Destiny (Steven Bonnell II): a liberal in the age of radical progressives and MAGA 26 Jun
  • Joseph Robertson: bringing Reform UK to the top of British politics 22 Jun
  • Zineb Riboua: Rising Tides of the Third World 12 Jun
  • Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond 1 Jan Loved
  • The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization 1 Jan Recommends
  • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter 1 Jan Loved
  • From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1 Jan Loved
  • Intelligence: All That Matters 1 Jan Recommends