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Ashkenazim, history and intelligence

A new theory about Ashkenazic Jews combines genetics, history and medical data. It should discomfit all sides in the debate about ethnic traits. Click on this paragraph to see my take, on the website Nextbook.org.

Recent Writings

Us and Them 2008 Edition
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Essay
The myth of ``Peak Attention''
Are we really running out of attention?
Eliot Spitzer and Psychologists' Changing Concept of Conformity
Is it always the lone maverick who's right, when s/he refuses to play along? That's how American psychologists have taught it, but recently they have been taking another look at conformism.
Other Species
A piece about migrating birds, New York City, and the scientists who study them both --
Fiction
The Punishment Fits the Crime
A genomic nightmare