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Noticing: An Essential Reader
“If the meritocracy were real, Steve Sailer would be one of the most famous writers in the world. Someday historians will revere him. In the meantime, read this book.”
— Tucker Carlson
“It is hard not to notice that Steve Sailer is like the ‘dark matter’ of American present only through influence.”
— Razib Khan
“If I had my way, Steve Sailer would be a household name. Now that his greatest hits are finally under one roof, it’s easier than ever to imagine a reality where it is.”
— Anna Khachiyan
An Essential Reader is the definitive collection of Steve Sailer’s most incisive observations on culture, immigration, class, politics, and human biodiversity. Sailer’s unique approach to the most controversial topics of our time, combining good old-fashioned common sense with a researcher’s eye to the data, has allowed him critical insights into American life that few others see and virtually no one else dares speak out loud.
— Tucker Carlson
“It is hard not to notice that Steve Sailer is like the ‘dark matter’ of American present only through influence.”
— Razib Khan
“If I had my way, Steve Sailer would be a household name. Now that his greatest hits are finally under one roof, it’s easier than ever to imagine a reality where it is.”
— Anna Khachiyan
An Essential Reader is the definitive collection of Steve Sailer’s most incisive observations on culture, immigration, class, politics, and human biodiversity. Sailer’s unique approach to the most controversial topics of our time, combining good old-fashioned common sense with a researcher’s eye to the data, has allowed him critical insights into American life that few others see and virtually no one else dares speak out loud.
508 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 19, 2024
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Steve Sailer
6 books51 followersSteven Sailer is an American journalist and movie critic for The American Conservative, a blogger, a VDARE.com columnist, and a former correspondent for UPI. He writes about race relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, IQ, genetics, movies, and sports.
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May 18, 2024
Steve has a sunny, gum-chewing, laid-back, Orange County quality. On someone else you could see an avocado polo shirt; on him, maybe avocado-colored Brooks Brothers pinstripes. I grew up going to school with kids who had WASP dads like Steve (is he really one though? He balked at getting specific about his 23andme results recently) and there was a sense that all that Parrothead-style laid-backness came from the fact that those guys didn’t really have anything too dire to get worked up about. And by the time you get to page 400, you may notice that Sailer’s deep dives into data don’t ever contradict his easygoing, laid-back first impressions—of blacks, of Mohammetans, of grumpy lesbian softball coaches, what have you!
Still, there are a lot of important values to the Sailerian canon, especially right now. First and foremost, it’s Steve’s absolute devotion to telling the truth as he sees it even if all the NPR tote bag people of the world will faint to hear the facts. He goes places even Ann “I won’t vote for you, Vivek, because you’re an Indian” Coulter won’t dare go. And if his prose, relentlessly plainspoken and accurate (Leo gives a “very energetic” performance in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET?), reaches for Tom Wolfiness but lacks its spritzy zetz, Sailer is still miles ahead of the other midwits filling column inches in sheer readable exuberance. As a culture, we need his insights—now.
Still, there are a lot of important values to the Sailerian canon, especially right now. First and foremost, it’s Steve’s absolute devotion to telling the truth as he sees it even if all the NPR tote bag people of the world will faint to hear the facts. He goes places even Ann “I won’t vote for you, Vivek, because you’re an Indian” Coulter won’t dare go. And if his prose, relentlessly plainspoken and accurate (Leo gives a “very energetic” performance in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET?), reaches for Tom Wolfiness but lacks its spritzy zetz, Sailer is still miles ahead of the other midwits filling column inches in sheer readable exuberance. As a culture, we need his insights—now.
May 21, 2024
This book was really interesting. It is a series of essays focused around topics that are not often discussed in rational and balanced ways. The tone is often slightly mocking, but there is never cruelty in discussing difficult issues of IQ, race, and society. This is a book that should be read, whether you agree with it or not, because it provides a good template for even-handed and open discourse on difficult subjects.
July 24, 2024
Steve Sailer has been described as the “Dark Matter of American journalism” ie present only through influence—he is in practice unmentionable and his Wikipedia entry calls him a white supremacist—but in reality every one who matters reads him and his insights appear everywhere (uncited). He has a background in market research and his essays are mainly deep dives into data and drawing insights from that data about the world in general. The title refers to noticing things that you are not supposed to notice or comment on in our day and age—however much they may be right in front of your eyes.
His blackballing by mainstream media mainly seems to be because he is willing to investigate racial differences in IQ and seeks to draw a correlation between those results and real life outcomes for income and success and so on. I was not really familiar with him before he appeared on the Red Scare podcast but having heard that and read the book, to me he seems genuinely motivated to want to improve the lives of people who are missing out on the benefits of modern America. He says this cannot happen currently because there is no real honest discussion of issues and public discourse is mired in political correctness—but the truth is there for those willing to notice. Also his conclusions if anything would lead to a charge of Jewish supremacy as he notes time and again the data leads to the conclusion that Ashkenazi Jews (ie European Jews) are superior on average in almost every measurable metric—and he says this admiringly, not in a conspiracy theory peddling manner which makes him a strange bedfellow for Nazis. (Sailer himself is a white Californian though he declined to mention his actual genetic makeup on the Red Scare podcast for some unclear reason—he had recently done the 23andMe test though.)
He is also anti-mass-immigration on the grounds that it is making life worse for the poor underclass of America and that fellow Americans owe a duty to each other ahead of a duty to the rest of the world (if indeed such a supposed duty is the motivation for mass-immigration, which he correctly, in my view, doubts—mass-immigration is a scheme by governments to prop up GDP figures and suppress wages, not a scheme to give sanctuary to needy people around the world). But again being anti-immigration makes you a de facto Nazi in our intellectually benighted age.
There are also fascinating essays on movies and literature and not a few devoted to golf and golf courses which I also enjoyed.
The most memorable essay for me is one that Steve published a few days before the invasion of Iraq was launched in 2003, correctly predicting that the aim of bringing democracy to that part of the world would be a disaster. Interestingly, he predicted this based on the extremely high rate of cousin marriage in Iraq. This is done in those regions to preserve wealth and influence within families and clans, but it also has the effect of instilling deep clan loyalty over many generations which is a far higher loyalty than owed to the state or to lofty ideals like “democracy” (cf the modern West where love matches dilute any remaining clan loyalty more every generation—the only modern Western country with any vestige of something similar is Scotland). I don’t know if that is exactly the reason why America failed in Iraq, but it turned out to be a correct prediction and makes for very interesting reading.
Sailer doesn’t really get into prescriptions for how to fix things—mainly he just uses data to say why current solutions aren’t working, or just to point out interesting phenomena. His essays are not confined to racial IQ analysis as my review hopefully already shown—he covers a very wide variety of topics.
Overall: A very interesting collection of essays. Recommended.
His blackballing by mainstream media mainly seems to be because he is willing to investigate racial differences in IQ and seeks to draw a correlation between those results and real life outcomes for income and success and so on. I was not really familiar with him before he appeared on the Red Scare podcast but having heard that and read the book, to me he seems genuinely motivated to want to improve the lives of people who are missing out on the benefits of modern America. He says this cannot happen currently because there is no real honest discussion of issues and public discourse is mired in political correctness—but the truth is there for those willing to notice. Also his conclusions if anything would lead to a charge of Jewish supremacy as he notes time and again the data leads to the conclusion that Ashkenazi Jews (ie European Jews) are superior on average in almost every measurable metric—and he says this admiringly, not in a conspiracy theory peddling manner which makes him a strange bedfellow for Nazis. (Sailer himself is a white Californian though he declined to mention his actual genetic makeup on the Red Scare podcast for some unclear reason—he had recently done the 23andMe test though.)
He is also anti-mass-immigration on the grounds that it is making life worse for the poor underclass of America and that fellow Americans owe a duty to each other ahead of a duty to the rest of the world (if indeed such a supposed duty is the motivation for mass-immigration, which he correctly, in my view, doubts—mass-immigration is a scheme by governments to prop up GDP figures and suppress wages, not a scheme to give sanctuary to needy people around the world). But again being anti-immigration makes you a de facto Nazi in our intellectually benighted age.
There are also fascinating essays on movies and literature and not a few devoted to golf and golf courses which I also enjoyed.
The most memorable essay for me is one that Steve published a few days before the invasion of Iraq was launched in 2003, correctly predicting that the aim of bringing democracy to that part of the world would be a disaster. Interestingly, he predicted this based on the extremely high rate of cousin marriage in Iraq. This is done in those regions to preserve wealth and influence within families and clans, but it also has the effect of instilling deep clan loyalty over many generations which is a far higher loyalty than owed to the state or to lofty ideals like “democracy” (cf the modern West where love matches dilute any remaining clan loyalty more every generation—the only modern Western country with any vestige of something similar is Scotland). I don’t know if that is exactly the reason why America failed in Iraq, but it turned out to be a correct prediction and makes for very interesting reading.
Sailer doesn’t really get into prescriptions for how to fix things—mainly he just uses data to say why current solutions aren’t working, or just to point out interesting phenomena. His essays are not confined to racial IQ analysis as my review hopefully already shown—he covers a very wide variety of topics.
Overall: A very interesting collection of essays. Recommended.
July 29, 2024
I had been noticing Steve Sailer’s insightful writing occasionally over many years, but never saw it collected anywhere. Likely because his influential but politically incorrect work has been widely cancelled. So, I welcomed the recent publication of this collection of his essays from throughout his 50-year career. Predictably, woke harpies doxed his publisher upon its release.
The collection is wonderful! Sailer is probably the second-best living essayist, surpassed only by Theodore Dalrymple.
The collection is wonderful! Sailer is probably the second-best living essayist, surpassed only by Theodore Dalrymple.
June 16, 2024
Sailer has a keen talent for noticing and putting into words the various patterns of human behavior. This collection is well-worth reading, and can judge his conclusions for yourself.
January 19, 2025
Steve Sailer (after reading this book and meeting him in person) seems like a totally normal and fairly genuine guy. You really get the sense through many of these articles (this book is a compendium of his best pieces) that he’s approached the world and the data as he sees it. There’s no real sense of glee at his acknowledgement of the facts, but there’s also no real sorrow or guilt.
Sailer focuses on a wide array of topics, from athletics to race to education to culture, and provides an unfortunately “controversial” perspective. Most people should do themselves the favor of at least reading some of these articles with an open mind. The difficulty of course, as Sailer points out, is that many people already know what he’s talking about and just don’t want to admit it.
For me, it’s at least hard to walk away from reading this book and dismissing most of what he has to say. This is especially true since he backs everything up with well researched sources and footnotes. It also works in his favor that he never really proscribes a policy retinue for America to follow. His final chapter “What If I’m Right?” is maybe one of the best in the book and it’s basically the acknowledgment that not much would change in the world because he tries to make his observations as close to reality as possible.
My favorite sections were probably: The Sailer Strategy, Human Biodiversity, The Half-Full Glass, and The Great Awokening.
Sailer focuses on a wide array of topics, from athletics to race to education to culture, and provides an unfortunately “controversial” perspective. Most people should do themselves the favor of at least reading some of these articles with an open mind. The difficulty of course, as Sailer points out, is that many people already know what he’s talking about and just don’t want to admit it.
For me, it’s at least hard to walk away from reading this book and dismissing most of what he has to say. This is especially true since he backs everything up with well researched sources and footnotes. It also works in his favor that he never really proscribes a policy retinue for America to follow. His final chapter “What If I’m Right?” is maybe one of the best in the book and it’s basically the acknowledgment that not much would change in the world because he tries to make his observations as close to reality as possible.
My favorite sections were probably: The Sailer Strategy, Human Biodiversity, The Half-Full Glass, and The Great Awokening.
November 29, 2024
A SPICY READ
December 7, 2025
Is this what good journalism was supposed to be like?
July 19, 2024
A roadmap to the horrors of the twenty first century -the finest, truest collection of journalism I have ever read- as well as a revelation that the actual history of our era will differ so starkly from the media accounts which we are provided with nowadays, and be so much more like what our lying eyes show us, that this book among others will be spoken about in one hundred years time while many other mainstream liar titles will have faded safely into dust. Credit also to Passage Press for producing such a beautiful book. Truly @L0m3z is one to watch; I would rather be published by him than Penguin. James Joyce and Ezra Pound would too.
November 1, 2025
This was obviously a good book in terms of the content and information, but I think most people who read this are probably already expecting that. I was familiar with Sailer through podcast interviews and his twitter account, but had never read any of his written work. The thing that pleasantly surprised me about this book was how readable it is.
Sailer is a stats nerd, and so am I (I'm a data analyst) and even I find massive data dumps like basically anything Charles Murray has ever written to be really hard to digest, at least in a cover to cover way, because I'm one of the midwits very slightly on the right of the bell curve that he mentions. This book, which is really a collection of articles from over the years on the types of things you'd expect with a title like "Noticing" (yes that is a dog whistle and yes I respond to it), was well written and actually pretty funny, which was the other thing that made it so readable. Not because he was making jokes about the material, which mostly isn't funny, but because his writing style just has a certain amount of sarcasm and clever turns of phrase, and he does throw in a few one liners here and there. He often tells anecdotes in a humorous way. There's just a good-natured and kind of sarcastic tone to the writing itself which I'm sure is present regardless of the topic he's writing on.
One of my favorite jokes from the book: "One of the very few positive traits not correlated with IQ is musical rhythm - which is a reason high IQ rock stars like Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend and David Bowie tell Drummer Jokes."
He also describes various golf putters thusly:
Modern putters: "toasters at the end of pool cues"
Yar putters: "an F-35 crossed with a cup holder" (??!)
The one his mom gave him in 1971 which she bought from a drugstore for $2.99: "it looks like a welding project from a junior high shop class."
Anyway like I said, this is a collection of essays/articles written over a pretty broad span of time, so being only 41 years old, there are a lot of references to politicians I've never heard of, like random senators from the 80s. Of course I know who Pat Buchanan is, but I'm surely missing a lot of context in the discussions about him, because I was 8 when he ran for president, and these were written for an audience apprised of current events at the time. But even so, this book is 99% digestible and prescient even with a few of those cases of unknown names and missed context. The book is also arranged interestingly, with sections based on topic, but with the essays in each section presented chronologically. That allows the evolution of thought and events to show clearly in topics where that matters, like the Iraq War and Obama.
I did think a couple of the pieces didn't age particularly well, like the one about gay people from 1994. He sort of rolls his eyes and says he's going to be derided and accused of stereotyping, but that's probably because the whole piece was relying completely on hilariously lazy stereotypes. Nobody who has ever actually known more than like, one gay person, would think they're that homogenous or like the same five stereotypes in a trenchcoat. It read like his entire perception of this group came from watching movies and observing obviously gay people from afar. At times he seemed to actually admit that. That was the worst of the pieces but there were a couple others where I could tell the journalism wasn't particularly rigorous and was more just him mouthing off about something he found entertaining in some way.
Similarly, I'm not going to join in the 1992 pity party about the politicians who were chastised for unwanted sexual advanced against female employees. There was a lot of annoying microanalysis of how do we really define "unwanted" (an iteration of "depends on what the definition of 'is' is") and what types of flirtatious or sexual behavior from men should be appropriate at the office when the answer obviously is none. That debate is valid in general social contexts but clearly not professional ones. "What self respecting woman would admit that no man had ever made an unwanted sexual advance toward her" is an absolutely insane sentence to put out into the world, and I don't believe it was written ironically. I also don't see the point of the piece about golf course architecture. I heard a podcaster mention that in an interview and at the time I thought she was joking.
Anyway, there were a few duds in there but overall it was a good book, and Sailer's entertaining personality (or at least his entertaining inner world, because IRL his personality is extremely low key) comes through pretty well.
Sailer is a stats nerd, and so am I (I'm a data analyst) and even I find massive data dumps like basically anything Charles Murray has ever written to be really hard to digest, at least in a cover to cover way, because I'm one of the midwits very slightly on the right of the bell curve that he mentions. This book, which is really a collection of articles from over the years on the types of things you'd expect with a title like "Noticing" (yes that is a dog whistle and yes I respond to it), was well written and actually pretty funny, which was the other thing that made it so readable. Not because he was making jokes about the material, which mostly isn't funny, but because his writing style just has a certain amount of sarcasm and clever turns of phrase, and he does throw in a few one liners here and there. He often tells anecdotes in a humorous way. There's just a good-natured and kind of sarcastic tone to the writing itself which I'm sure is present regardless of the topic he's writing on.
One of my favorite jokes from the book: "One of the very few positive traits not correlated with IQ is musical rhythm - which is a reason high IQ rock stars like Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend and David Bowie tell Drummer Jokes."
He also describes various golf putters thusly:
Modern putters: "toasters at the end of pool cues"
Yar putters: "an F-35 crossed with a cup holder" (??!)
The one his mom gave him in 1971 which she bought from a drugstore for $2.99: "it looks like a welding project from a junior high shop class."
Anyway like I said, this is a collection of essays/articles written over a pretty broad span of time, so being only 41 years old, there are a lot of references to politicians I've never heard of, like random senators from the 80s. Of course I know who Pat Buchanan is, but I'm surely missing a lot of context in the discussions about him, because I was 8 when he ran for president, and these were written for an audience apprised of current events at the time. But even so, this book is 99% digestible and prescient even with a few of those cases of unknown names and missed context. The book is also arranged interestingly, with sections based on topic, but with the essays in each section presented chronologically. That allows the evolution of thought and events to show clearly in topics where that matters, like the Iraq War and Obama.
I did think a couple of the pieces didn't age particularly well, like the one about gay people from 1994. He sort of rolls his eyes and says he's going to be derided and accused of stereotyping, but that's probably because the whole piece was relying completely on hilariously lazy stereotypes. Nobody who has ever actually known more than like, one gay person, would think they're that homogenous or like the same five stereotypes in a trenchcoat. It read like his entire perception of this group came from watching movies and observing obviously gay people from afar. At times he seemed to actually admit that. That was the worst of the pieces but there were a couple others where I could tell the journalism wasn't particularly rigorous and was more just him mouthing off about something he found entertaining in some way.
Similarly, I'm not going to join in the 1992 pity party about the politicians who were chastised for unwanted sexual advanced against female employees. There was a lot of annoying microanalysis of how do we really define "unwanted" (an iteration of "depends on what the definition of 'is' is") and what types of flirtatious or sexual behavior from men should be appropriate at the office when the answer obviously is none. That debate is valid in general social contexts but clearly not professional ones. "What self respecting woman would admit that no man had ever made an unwanted sexual advance toward her" is an absolutely insane sentence to put out into the world, and I don't believe it was written ironically. I also don't see the point of the piece about golf course architecture. I heard a podcaster mention that in an interview and at the time I thought she was joking.
Anyway, there were a few duds in there but overall it was a good book, and Sailer's entertaining personality (or at least his entertaining inner world, because IRL his personality is extremely low key) comes through pretty well.
July 3, 2024
Sailer is such an unlikely guy to become the hero of the Very Online Right and the racist demon of the NPR center-left. He's an anodyne, wonky social scientist who's about as far in tone from someone like Tucker Carlson or Trump as you can possibly imagine.
It's like if John Carmack sat around pestering NYT journalists with uncomfortable questions in the comments section online.
As a kid I had a friend who never seemed to get upset, never seemed too excessively enthusiastic about anything, was always pleasant, and was happy working long hours on odd projects he enjoyed. Sailer is like that. He talks about the wild black murder rate numbers or the impacts of immigration but never comes off as upset or angry.
Sometimes I thought - why aren't you more worked up over this? Isn't it an outrage? For Sailer, it's numbers and Noticing. And he likes those, whether it's in golf or baseball or politics or movies.
This collection says 1973-2023 but it's heavier on the modern era. That's a shame, because I've lived through American politics 2012-2023 and watched Sailer noticing in real-time on Twitter. The older pre-Obama political stuff is newer material to me, and columns about Gore and Clinton and Bush's GWOT are nostalgic and distant and we "know how the story ended", so we can evaluate Sailer's predictive powers. (NB: they're pretty good.)
What I'd like most of all is an entirely non-political collection that's just Sailer talking about things like movies, pop culture, and sports. Purely for the entertainment factor. A cozy read.
Anyway, Sailer's star is rising and honestly after all this time he deserves it.
It's like if John Carmack sat around pestering NYT journalists with uncomfortable questions in the comments section online.
As a kid I had a friend who never seemed to get upset, never seemed too excessively enthusiastic about anything, was always pleasant, and was happy working long hours on odd projects he enjoyed. Sailer is like that. He talks about the wild black murder rate numbers or the impacts of immigration but never comes off as upset or angry.
Sometimes I thought - why aren't you more worked up over this? Isn't it an outrage? For Sailer, it's numbers and Noticing. And he likes those, whether it's in golf or baseball or politics or movies.
This collection says 1973-2023 but it's heavier on the modern era. That's a shame, because I've lived through American politics 2012-2023 and watched Sailer noticing in real-time on Twitter. The older pre-Obama political stuff is newer material to me, and columns about Gore and Clinton and Bush's GWOT are nostalgic and distant and we "know how the story ended", so we can evaluate Sailer's predictive powers. (NB: they're pretty good.)
What I'd like most of all is an entirely non-political collection that's just Sailer talking about things like movies, pop culture, and sports. Purely for the entertainment factor. A cozy read.
Anyway, Sailer's star is rising and honestly after all this time he deserves it.
August 28, 2024
Relevant and Thought-Provoking Observations Shunned By Ideologues
This collection of essays gave such a range of insights into current controversies. Unsupported assumptions that lie beneath so many mainstream media messages, progressive advocacy, and dominant academic positions are repeatedly shown for the baseless attempts to win arguments without defensible evidence that they are. Sailer’s confident, well-documented viewpoints are stated without egotism or self-promotion that I found easy to digest and enjoy.
This collection of essays gave such a range of insights into current controversies. Unsupported assumptions that lie beneath so many mainstream media messages, progressive advocacy, and dominant academic positions are repeatedly shown for the baseless attempts to win arguments without defensible evidence that they are. Sailer’s confident, well-documented viewpoints are stated without egotism or self-promotion that I found easy to digest and enjoy.
April 8, 2025
Lots of poorly argued essays in here, but at the very least I credit Sailer with persuading me out of my vulgar libertarianism.
A system which only functions for the benefit of people who can understand time value of money is a system which rewards exploitation and tacitly punishes good actors. To the extent that Steve argues we owe more responsibility to those "on the left half of the bell curve", he's right.
His anti-immigration arguments, however, are garbage and just another form of socialism.
A system which only functions for the benefit of people who can understand time value of money is a system which rewards exploitation and tacitly punishes good actors. To the extent that Steve argues we owe more responsibility to those "on the left half of the bell curve", he's right.
His anti-immigration arguments, however, are garbage and just another form of socialism.
July 7, 2024
I don't know that I necessarily accept Sailer's theories about what they evidence shows and why, yet this is a fine work for providing thoughtful conjectures that is lacking in the overall debate about the social science subjects he addresses. It is also striking how many hits rather than misses Steve has racked up. Admirable straightforward writing prose style too.
April 18, 2025
This book makes me feel a little bit like I did finding a Playboy as an adolescent. It's filled with things I've been told you can't take an interest in or think about and I know most people would be cross with me for reading it...
April 30, 2025
Sailer’s collection here is aptly named - writings from the last twenty or so years collected in one. Most focus on race or gender from one to five data points. A greater sense of context or reflection on each piece as time has moved forward would have greatly improved this collection.
September 11, 2024
Well worth reading. This book is not for the faint of heart or fashionably orthodox
November 6, 2024
The best work by the guy your friends would hate if only they could read. Sailer has made a career out of asking questions that make people uncomfortable and rejecting bad but popular assumptions.
November 10, 2024
Excellent and thought provoking.
July 29, 2025
Poignant, relevant, eye opening… a wonderful book!
December 22, 2025
series of controversial essays
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 20, 2025
Ordinarily, i wouldn't give a 5 rating to collection where a few of the pieces bored me a fair bit. i guess i don't share sailer's obsession with golf courses & sunset boulevard.
but i have to give it a 5. mostly because the pieces i am interested in are great & drily comical as you'd expect if you follow the great man on twitter or read his columns regularly.
also partly because of what it means for this book to be in the world, out there to be read by people. i hope the price comes down a little bit cuz i'd really like to buy copies for christmas.
steve sailer is a good lad & the world would be better if more people thought like him & fewer thought like ibram x kendi or robin diangelo.
edit: re-read in mid-august 2025. originally planned to just browse through a few pieces, but i ended up going through the entire thing again, except for the bits on golf courses & sunset boulevard. i still don't care about that stuff.
but i have to give it a 5. mostly because the pieces i am interested in are great & drily comical as you'd expect if you follow the great man on twitter or read his columns regularly.
also partly because of what it means for this book to be in the world, out there to be read by people. i hope the price comes down a little bit cuz i'd really like to buy copies for christmas.
steve sailer is a good lad & the world would be better if more people thought like him & fewer thought like ibram x kendi or robin diangelo.
edit: re-read in mid-august 2025. originally planned to just browse through a few pieces, but i ended up going through the entire thing again, except for the bits on golf courses & sunset boulevard. i still don't care about that stuff.
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