Subscribe to Emil Kirkegaard’s Substack. Case Decker It’s time for another unpopular post, but the principle is right. During human history, there has been a very large number of civil wars, coups, and state collapses due to political turmoil. During those times, two or more opposing factions started killing each other once they gave up […]
The Genetics of Political Behavior: How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Ideology Michael Ryan Routledge, 2020 This is how far evolutionary psychology has fallen. This is an absolutely outrageous book, and I suspect that in general that’s the way it is perceived. I have argued previously that evolutionary psychologists have been earnestly trying to gain academic respectability […]
Kirkegaard: ” A more likely explanation for their ban [on marriage between a wide range of relatives] is that the church was trying to break up powerful noble families that the church had conflicts with.” I agree. From my comment on Henrich (The previous is a link is to the entire comment. E.K.’s article links […]
“Sometimes you should speak up with an unpopular view” … It was therefore a pleasure when I remembered that I should read Hrishikesh Joshi’s 2021 book Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind, because it is one of those short (196 pages) and to-the-point books that remind me why books are still the best for some topics. […]
Editor’s note: This eulogy is from Emil Kirkegaard’s Substack. Richard Lynn was truly a pillar of the hereditarian thrust in psychology which is under assault or ignored by most academics now. I have cited him extensively in my writing. The good news is that researchers like Emil Kirkegaard are carrying on this tradition. The last […]
