A historic moment in scientific discourse between Stephen Jay Gould and Hans Eysenck, courtesy of Mind Hacks. For some reason, debating genetics and intelligence always provokes liberal hysteria. You'd think they were afraid of something, wouldn't you?
Though I appreciate that Mr. Sullivan writes passionately and eloquently much of the time, publishing an excerpt of The Bell Curve while editor of The New Republic remains one of the low points of his career. That he once proclaimed that this decision was one of his "proudest moments in journalism" (as he did in 2005) and that he continues to use the trope as a cudgel for liberals -- well, it's damn disappointing.
How thoroughly must Herrnstein and Murray be discredited before Sullivan changes his tune?
...As Scott Lemieux put it:
Promoting Murray's (grossly illberal) arguments has nothing to do with promoting "debate" or adding to the "marketplace of ideas." Sullivan gave Murray a soapbox to propagate his reprehensible ideas because he agreed with them, and despite their having been utterly discredited he still does.
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