The Reproductive Revolution
Debates about evolutionary psychology are extraordinarily difficult because two major turning points have occurred within an astonishingly short period of history. Each of these turning points brought about a fundamental…
Nature Before Nurture
One of the myths that makes life in our time so tiresome is the notion that differences in personality traits and abilities between men and women are caused by differences…
Building an Educated Nation
The market is a highly effective tool when people need to be motivated to acquire specific knowledge and skills—for example, to qualify as an electrician or learn Spanish. This assumes,…
The Courage to Leave
A reader writes: “What if Muslims and Muslim movements in Europe could be brought under sufficient control that apostates would no longer be afraid to leave Islam? Wouldn’t that create…
Modernization and Survival
The Islamization of the Western world is being carried out and supported by a force without precedent in modern history. We tend to focus on individual bloody incidents, while failing…
After the University
The larger the share of the population attending universities, the clearer it becomes that we can no longer be talking about an elite. Still, one might expect these people to…