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Innovative Immigrants. But Which Ones?
•�July 14, 2021
•�200 Words •�169 Comments
America's ability to draw high quality human capital from abroad is one of the lynchpins of its economic strengths and probably goes some ways to explaining why it's GDP per capita is significantly higher than would might be predicted from its national IQ. Alexander Kruel recently had a Twitter thread about precisely which groups of... Read More
City Upon a Hill. But for How Much Longer?
•�June 27, 2020
•�200 Words •�111 Comments
As I argued in my 2011 article on National Wealth and IQ at the Edge: American Exceptionalism, East Asian Mediocrity, the US is surprisingly wealthy for a country for a country of its national IQ, which is respectable but modest by developed country standards. There are many possible reasons for it, which I listed (e.g.... Read More
Russia Easens Citizenship Requirements
•�April 24, 2020
•�200 Words •�234 Comments
As of April 24, 2020, you no longer have to give up your foreign citizenship to get a Russian one. Other categories: Stateless persons in the f.USSR no longer have to reside in Russia for three years. (Obvious application: Russians in the Baltic states). Spouses of Russian citizens living in Russia and who have children... Read More
PUTLER! Only Wants Russian and/or Smart Immigrants
•�February 7, 2020
•�1,600 Words •�171 Comments
There are millions of Gastarbeiters from Central Asia and the Caucasus in Russia. But contra /pol/ wignats and Ukrainian svidomy, it really doesn't seem like the Kremlin intends for them to stay. At least that's the general gist of this Bloomberg article by Henry Meyer and Ilya Khrennikov: Putin Sticks to ‘Russia First’ Even as... Read More
"Not Sending Their Best": World Map of IQ Drop Due to Immigration
•�December 14, 2016
•�1,100 Words •�149 Comments
Well, apart from the Gulf states - thanks in large part to coming from such a low base that even subcontinental coolies are an improvement over the natives. Otherwise, the cognitive impact of immigration - at least as proxied by the differences in performance on the PISA tests between the national average, which includes immigrant... Read More
Limits to Cognitive Elitism
•�September 14, 2015
•�700 Words •�20 Comments
This is a good anti-immigration argument that you see nowadays in those gray areas of online commentary that attempt to straddle that fine line that delineates barely acceptable from unacceptable discourse in respectable society. Of course, very conveniently, very few Syrians - let alone Sub-Saharan Africans - would qualify, as pointed out by Steve Sailer... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.