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Ron Unz Appears on Stark Truth Radio
•�August 14, 2020
•�200 Words •�15 Comments
Our powerful host Ron Unz joins a growing roster of UR bloggers and columnists to be interviewed by Robert Stark. Some of the topics they discussed: Recap of Ron’s Top Issues in past California U.S. Senate Race The Unz Review as a big tent of important, interesting, and controversial opinions from both the left and... Read More
The Farewell to Alms Theory - Older Than We Think
•�March 19, 2013
•�400 Words
I am currently (re)reading The National System of Political Economy by Friedrich List (published in 1841), and this jumped out at me: In no European kingdom is the institution of an aristocracy more judiciously designed than in England for securing to the nobility, in their relation to the Crown and the commonalty, individual independence, dignity,... Read More
Flynn Effect DOES Apply to South Korea
•�February 18, 2013
•�400 Words •�1 Comment
Regular readers of this blog may remember my comments regarding Ron Unz's theory that East Asians have high IQ's independent of time/nutrition/urbanization whatever it is that causes the Flynn Effect. Here is his original article on his theory of the "East Asian Exception" and my two responses are here and here. Anyway a new paper... Read More
New Delhi Cuts Ties with PISA
•�August 22, 2012
•�300 Words •�15 Comments
India backs out of global education test for 15-year-olds. Which of these Soviet leaders does this remind you of? Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev are all travelling together in a railway carriage. Unexpectedly the train stops. Lenin suggests: "Perhaps, we should call a subbotnik, so that workers and peasants fix the problem." Stalin puts his... Read More
The Evolution of Chinese IQ
•�August 17, 2012
•�1,300 Words •�62 Comments
In the discussion at the previous post, in which I took exception to Ron Unz's theory of the East Asian Exception, he alerted me to so additional work on the matter he'd done as a Harvard freshman on Chinese IQ. You can read his summary of Social Darwinism and Rural China as well as Steve... Read More
Disagree with Ron Unz's Conclusions On Chinese IQ
•�August 17, 2012
•�500 Words •�36 Comments
He writes: China isn't anywhere near as backward as he portrays it. (1) The urban-rural ratio was essentially 50/50 according to the 2010 Census. Furthermore, rural Chinese don't really suffer from the absolute destitution common to peasants in Third World countries. They own their own land and it is almost impossible for them to lose... Read More
Analysis of China's PISA 2009 Results
•�August 13, 2012
•�1,200 Words •�31 Comments
As human capital is so important for prosperity, it behoves us to know China's in detail to assess whether it will continue converging on developed countries. Until recently the best data we had were disparate IQ tests (on the basis of which Richard Lynn's latest estimate is an IQ of 105.8 in his 2012 book... Read More
Hamburgers and Rednecks: IQ Estimates of US Ethnic Groups
•�July 31, 2012
•�800 Words •�34 Comments
Via The Audacious Epigone: IQ scores by US ethnic groups. It is not very useful I think in theoretical or practical applications but it is interesting as a showcase of why IQ is more than just genetic inheritance, incorporating also Flynn, sampling issues, sense of popular identity, selection bias, etc. Wordsum is basically a vocab... Read More
Did Ron Unz Score An Own Goal Too?
•�July 28, 2012
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In recent days Ron Unz's article Race, IQ, and Wealth (The American Conservative) has been making the rounds in the HBDsphere. Broadly speaking it argues for the predominance of cultural and environmental factors as opposed to genetic in forming IQ. It is fairly long but it's also one of the best statements of that position... 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.