Entries by Emil Kirkegaard

New York Times is back on the race science beat

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New York Times is back on the race science beat A kinda boring article though Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Jan 25 READ IN APP Back on the 23rd October 2025, some journalist I hadn’t heard of called Mike McIntire emailed me. He said he was writing some smear piece for the New York Times, and […]

Emil Kirkegaard’s blog: DNA, Race, and Reproduction (Emily Klancher Merchant (Editor), Meaghan O’Keefe (editor))

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Book review: DNA, Race, and Reproduction (Emily Klancher Merchant (Editor), Meaghan O’Keefe (editor)) “racist garbage” Emil O. W. Kirkegaard So I occasionally go out of my way to read left-wing historians, bioethicists and the like. In general, bioethicists are one of those occupations where they do the exact opposite of the name, that is, push […]

Emil Kirkegaard: Bad blog posts and their costs

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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 […]

Emil Kirkegaard: Michael Ryan’s The Genetics of Political Behavior (2020)

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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 […]

Emil Kirkegaard: Why did NW Europeans become WEIRD?

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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 […]