When it comes to the US and Israel, which country has more influence over the other?

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week: aporiamagazine.com/p/can-someones…

.Wilfred Reilly joins me to discuss the black-white IQ gap. He defends the culturalist position, arguing that neither genes nor racism can explain the difference in average test scores between blacks and whites. aporiamagazine.com/p/the-racial-i…

'Conservatives tell us that “welfare destroyed the black family”. And while there’s evidence that perverse incentives can increase divorce and single-motherhood, historical literature shows that problems in the black family are not new.' aporiamagazine.com/p/conservative…

Everybody knows some topics or questions are taboo, but which ones? Do people agree? Decided to find out. We asked 500 Americans online to rate the tabooness of 29 questions, and this was the result.

Race and IQ was the winner, even beating incest, pedophilia, gay germs etc.

In 2012, the incarceration rate for British nationals was 0.14%. Meanwhile, it was 1.9% for Albanians (14x higher) and 4% for Congolese (29x higher). aporiamagazine.com/p/immigrant-se…

Groups with more low-skilled immigrants have higher incarceration rates in Britain: aporiamagazine.com/p/immigrant-se…

'The interests of the gifted are routinely swept aside in western societies. This is most clearly visible when we look at the treatment of gifted children'. aporiamagazine.com/p/how-about-a-…

My postman recently delivered several slightly crumpled letters. I therefore left a banana skin outside for him to trip over – to restore deterrence.

Last night, Jordanian jets reportedly shot down dozens of Iranian drones fired at Israel. This is noteworthy given that the ADL gives Jordan a higher anti-Semitism score than Iran, and a University of Jordan poll found that 66% of Jordanians approved of the October 7 attack.

Once again, I comment on Israel's violations of international law to highlight the West's hypocrisy, not because I think foreign policy should be based on such considerations.

The reason to restrain Israel is not that it violates international law, it's that it threatens to set

When it comes to Israel/Palestine, the bottom line for European conservatives is that instability in the Middle East causes Muslim immigration to Europe – which means that European conservatives have an interest in constraining all the relevant actors, including Israel.

'Whilst America’s gifted schools and programmes are far better than those in the UK (in that they actually exist), the US has a peculiar problem with activists lobbying to shut them down.' aporiamagazine.com/p/beyond-iq-th…

I'm published in Aporia on the strange phenomenon in immigration-heavy countries of citizens fleeing high-productivity area en masse. Read it at the link below.

'Revealed preference indicates that Westerners dislike actually-existing immigration so much that they are willing to take large pay cuts to escape it.' aporiamagazine.com/p/fleeing-oppo…

Does Western foreign policy generally serve the interests of Western people? Does Western immigration policy generally serve the interests of Western people?

The midwit does exist! Each chart plots overconfidence on the y-axis against science knowledge on the x-axis. The charts are for different datasets. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Interesting fact: Czechia (one of the least religious countries in the world) has a higher fertility rate than Turkey.