Now, for my comments. First of all, I would love to see what our friends over in neoconservative-land would have to say about this article. My guess is they would have a thoughtful response along the lines of, "Steve Sailer's a racist."
Of course, any uncomfortable fact -- like the overwhelmingly obvious and uncontroversial difference among IQs of different populations -- that upsets the simplistic neoconservative ideological worldview will be branded as racist or, more often, simply ignored. Apparently these guys are too busy ending evil in the Central African Republic or something like that, and they don't have time to end their own ignorance on a whole host of issues.
I should say that Captain Dave and I had a discussion several months ago about potential differences among races and nationalities in IQ. My argument was that although I did not have any knowledge one way or another, I considered it ridiculous and entirely ideological to have some sort of presumption that such differences don't exist. In the intervening months, I have read a lot of the work of Sailer and others, and I can now confidently say not only that I am convinced that such differences exist and are significant, but I am also convinced that any honest person who looks into the issue will quickly agree unless cowed by political correctness and/or ideological blinders.
The facts are the facts. What to do about them is, of course, another question.