Churchill’s Headmaster: The ‘Sadist’ who Nearly Saved the British Empire By Edward Dutton Melbourne: Manticore Press, 2019 There will never be enough men of outstanding virtue to satisfy the human need for heroes, and one fertile source of the counterfeits necessary to make up the difference, as Ed Dutton points out, is wartime leaders: There […]
The Intelligence of Nations Richard Lynn and David Becker London: Ulster Institute for Social Research, 2019 British psychologist Richard Lynn and Finnish political scientist Tatu Vanhanen published their first study of national IQ differences, Intelligence and the Wealth of Nations, in 2002. The book found that a nation’s average IQ correlated at .62 with its […]
The Silent Rape Epidemic: How the Finns Were Groomed to Love Their Abusers Edward Dutton Oulu, Finland: Thomas Edward Press, 2019 Finns enjoy an unusually high-trust society. Longtime British resident Ed Dutton describes unmanned roadside vegetable stands that operate on the honor system, with customers reliably leaving the correct price for what they take. Travelers […]
At Our Wit’s End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for Our Future Edward Dutton and Michael A. Woodley of Menie Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2018 We in the West have long become accustomed to the idea that scientific and technological progress is the normal state of things, although decline—technological deterioration and […]
Go to Part 1. Prof. Baskerville’s website; contains links to podcasts, reviews and his other work. Domestic Violence It is well established that men and women commit violent acts in the home in roughly equal numbers, and that an intact family is the safest environment for both women and children. Such facts have not prevented […]
The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Government Power (pdf download; Amazon) By Stephen Baskerville Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2017 For half a century, conservatives have been putting their readers to sleep with denunciations of the sexual revolution as a kind of anarchic free-for-all where men’s sexual impulses […]
J. Philippe Rushton: A Life History Perspective Edward Dutton Thomas Edward Press, 2018 182 pages, $19.89 paper, free in Kindle Ed Dutton has produced a significant critical study of the life and work of psychologist J. Philippe Rushton (1943–2012). As most readers of this site are aware, Rushton is famous for extending r-K Life History […]
