Expanding the MLK Myth

When Martin Luther King Day became an official holiday, there was no way you could remove him from the pantheon of American heroes.

That's why conservatives have been so dedicated in adopting King as one of their own and finding hidden clues that he was actually a dyed-in-the-wool conservative.

Evolving Before Our Eyes

In Chapter Four of _The 10,000 Year Explosion_, Greg Cochran and Henry Harpending discuss the astonishing speed of genetic diffusion for skin lightening in Caucasians. The single most important gene is Solute Carrier 24A5, and the authors state that the skin lightening variant arose only about 5,800 years ago, yet now has a frequency of 99 percent in Europe and is found at significant levels as far away as Ceylon. Subsequent research has shown that it’s probably a little older, but as Cochrane and Harpending suggest, either way, the variant must have had a huge selective advantage and might have spread so rapidly that, at the most accelerated stage, a particularly old farmer could have noticed the change in appearance in his own village within his lifetime.

'Black' Metal

What makes them so special that they have been embraced by the larger public that holds contempt for metal? Meet the band members--who are all Black pre-teens living in trendy areas of New York City.

Our Neurotic Elite

The incubator of this managerial class is the Ivy League. Presitigious and hallowed, Ivy League colleges give their students an environment where they can mingle with the leaders of tomorrow and network with the organizations and people that can grant them the key to high status as well.