Chris Brand's book: The g Factor

Was originally published by Wiley, New York. This was the era of a rather lightweight book The Bell Curve. Chris Brand lectured at Edinburgh University, presumably in their psychology department, and I'd guess wanted fame and fortune by writing a book on related subjects, as Philippe Rushton did.
But this was the time of 'political correctness', and funded and thuggish campaigns against (for example) H J Eysenck, eugenics, race awareness, and other topics such as the Holohoax on which Jews as usual had strong and wrong views. 9/11 had not yet happened. Nor for that matter had J K Rowling.
Brand was fired from Edinburgh University, and even after an internal investigation, remained fired. My best guess is that Jews threatened Edinburgh University with a catastrophic drop in finance, since Jews control printed money. Or perhaps the whole thing was a fake, to frighten the others.
I've uploaded a file, presumably by Brand, from the McDougall Newsletter. (William McDougall was an early 20th-century American psychologist). The newsletter partly survives today, but only as simple rubbish on amateur home health tips. If anyone has saved McDNLArch pages, I could add them here.
I'd copied the page in about 2000, from the William McDougall Newsletter archives. (The file name was McDNLArch7.htm). Brand's page is reproduced here unchanged, except for the addition of margins, and a subdued background colour, in place of the retina-searing pure cyan in the original. It's unlikely that any links will still work. I haven't inserted internal links.
Brand's literary style is not elegant in the manner of Swift or Pope. Some of the proper names are modified to mock the original bearers, many of them by now retired or dead. The Clintons, and Tony Blair, both puppets of Jews, prance here. And there's a prefiguring of the absurd 'taking the knee' joke against the police.
I've just noticed Chris Brand died. I'd intended to insert anything he wanted to say. I'm uncertain if he counted himself as a Jew, though it seems likely. I noticed some comment that Brand praised sex with children; Jews praise child sex.
I've disabled the links Brand inserted mostly to McDNL files. They don't work any more - Dec 2022

–Rae West December 2020

EDITOR: CHRIS BRAND (cbrand@cycad.com) -- THE BRITISH ACADEMIC PSYCHOLOGIST WHO DECRIED IGNORACISM, ENVIRONMENTOSTALINISM, FEMINAZISM AND PAEDOHYSTERIA (THE MAIN INGREDIENTS OF INNOCUOUS-SOUNDING 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS').
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED? CHRIS BRAND'S BOOK, The g Factor, WAS DE-PUBLISHED by Wiley Inc. [New York] (1996) AND BRAND WAS FIRED by Edinburgh University (1997) (and stayed fired after an internal Appeal, 1998). Latest Press, Evening News [Edinburgh] 9 ii '99. For 'Current State of Play in CB and GB versus PC', see the end of this NewsLetter.

This newsletter for differential psychology appears on Tuesdays. See its Archives and related articles on psychology, heredity, individual liberty and William McDougall FRS. Only the McDNL gives the up-to-date answers of genes-realistic psychology to the tired social-environmentalism and political correctness of egalitarian ideologues and hysterical feminists. Only the McDNL challenges the media's worship of: (London) Profs Susan Greenfield, Germaine Greer, Steve Jones and Steven Rose; and (New York) Profs Jared Diamond, Ronald Dworkin, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman, Stephen Jay Gould and Leon Kamin. Only the McDNL has backed Nobelist Daniel Carlton Gajdusek, multivariate psychologist Raymond Cattell (1905-1998), and social philosopher Arthur Koestler* (1905-1983) as their names have given offence to today's neosocialists and kindred hysterics.

* After leaving the Communist Party in 1938, Koestler ran the anti-Nazi weekly paper Die Zukunft [The Future, with contributions from Thomas Mann, E. M. Forster and Aldous Huxley] and remained a man of the left. He helped lead the British campaign to abolish hanging in the 1960's. Yet Koestler -- like William McDougall -- made a place in his thinking for science as well as for politics and philosophy. In particular, he recognized the force of biologically based intra-specific aggression in man (having a particular connection with "the hypnotic suggestibility of the mass mind"). ("The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums," Koestler wrote.) Like McDougall, Koestler believed that life was richly imbued with creative purpose; and he hoped that some confirmation might be found for Lamarck's idea of the transmission of learning between generations or for parapsychological phenomena. His book The Thirteenth Tribe speculated that Ashkenazi Jewry descended from Caucasian rather than Semitic stock. In 1968, Koestler followed Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell and Laurence Olivier as the fourth recipient of Copenhagen University's Sonning Prize for his "contribution to literature and European culture." The philosopher [now Dame] Mary Warnock compared Koestler's intellectual quest to the wide-ranging inquiries of Descartes, Leibniz, Goethe, Teilhard de Chardin, Jacques Monod and George Steiner: "…how extremely un-English it all is," she wrote. Unlike William McDougall, Koestler was a Babe Bagger -- marrying at 59 his South African-born secretary, Cynthia, 37 (PaedoScore 22)…. For defences of Koestler -- whose womanizing (aka "serial rapism") has appalled feminazie students at Edinburgh LUniversity -- see these NewsLetters, e.g. 9 iii '99.

"APPALLING" UNIVERSITY GROVELLED TO GOVERNMENT -- Yes, Edinburgh LUniversity is at it again!

NEOSOCIALISM NAILED -- Lorenzo Infantino's Individualism in Modern Thought REVIEWED.

WHO IS 'ABUSING OUR CHILDREN'? -- James R. Kincaid's Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting REVIEWED.

Lawrence Affair / Macpherson Report

Without a written constitution, it has always been unclear how the liberties of British citizens (actually subjects of Her Majesty the Queen) were to be defended. Over the past week, everyone saw that there is in fact NO LINE OF DEFENCE FOR LIBERTY IN BRITAIN.
      As the Macpherson Report proposed the withdrawal of historic liberties, barely a cheep was heard for days from the supposedly freedom-loving press (despite newsies being well prepared by the Report's having been leaked*); and Parliament, Government and civil liberties groups were entirely useless. (The Home Secretary even went on holiday, leaving a tinder keg where any attack on police informants -- addresses supplied by Macpherson -- would have yielded total 'anti-racist' hysteria.)
      Everything in Britain is now a matter of politics -- a matter for Emperor Blair to arrange when he sees fit. The judiciary and its ancient principles (evidently adhered to by London police) have proved quite irrelevant to what will happen as the press bays for the blood of the Eltham Five. Britain is now essentially a tyranny -- for all that Emperor Blair himself is a nice boy with a good background and Oxford education.
      Here follows a day-by-day account of the week that showed the Blair Government to be as incompetent, illiberal and untrustworthy as the management of Edinburgh LUniversity.

* The press was active in restricting the injunction imposed by a censorious government to restrict the leak; but press interest in opposing the latest antiracialunacy was slow to develop.

It turns out that the charge of "institutional racism" against the world's top police force is to be met by grovelling promises by cops of amendment of life, more jobs for 'minorities', and millions of pounds for propaganda exercises. Faced with demands for the head of Sir Paul Condon (the Metropolitan Police chief), the Blair government is seizing on the Macpherson Report's notion that 'institutional racism' [itself defined as a 'failure to serve minorities'] can be "thoughtless", i.e. unwitting and unintentional. Thus no-one need resign following six years in which the Met. had failed to convict anybody for the assault on and death of Black youth Stephen Lawrence, and resisted every suggestion that it was institutionally racist.
      Instead, the Assistant Commissioner for the Met., Des O'Connor, has announced that he and all the lads have been on "a vertical learning curve" and that they are ready to spearhead "a breakthrough in human rights" (BBCR4UK 24 ii '99, 08:10). The Met. will not be alone in needing constant monitoring for unconscious racism in future. There will have to be change "across the whole face of society -- including the BBC," Des told the BBC's 'Today' programme. In token of the Met.'s own good faith as a penitent, Des announced that, in 1998/9, the force doubled the number of members of the public arrested for 'racist' crimes.
      The idea that racism is "endemic in British society" was warmly supported by Mr Paddy Pantsdown ooops Ashdown, the Blair-backing leader [till he resigns in May] of Britain's 'Liberal' Party. In particular, the consensus of Britain's neosocialist great-and-good is plainly to accept the view of Black Sir Herman Ouseley, 'chair' of the Commission for Racial Equality: "Education in Britain is institutionally racist and racism is an inherent part of the education system." (Times Educational Supplement 19 ii '99). Britain's state schools, already devastated by a generation of egalitarian ideology, are now to be submitted to unremitting psychotherapy that will be conducted and evaluated by well-paid representatives of ethnic minorities.
      For the big afternoon in Parliament itself, no method of grovelling went unused. At 14:00, the Lawrence parents, Neville and Doreen, were given seats in the House of Commons normally reserved for visiting dignitaries such as US presidents; Black Mrs Lawrence was allowed to read (somewhat haltingly) a press release while being broadcast by the BBC -- quite contrary to the usual journalistic practice of refusing to use people's own words and harassing them from the moment they start speaking; Home Secretary Jack Straw blamed "professional incompetence", "institutional racism" and a "failure of leadership by senior officers" and said the whole country was racist and needed re-education; Met. chief Sir Paul Condon said he and the Met were "ashamed" -- though of "incompetence" rather than the "institutional racism" which interested the media -- and that he would be staying in his job; and BBCR4UK upped its analyses, chat shows and phone-ins beyond even the level of the previous week. The Reverend Blair said it was a moment to reflect, to learn and to change; he urged all Britons to "look inside themselves" for institutional racism which he thought affected everyone; and he appealed publicly to "Doreen" to help Her Majesty's Government to rebuild Britain.
      There were media mentions of "intense pressure" for Sir Paul Condon to resign; but, while agreeing with other Black MPs that resignation would have been better, Mr Bernie Grant (MP for the Broadwater Farm estate, Tottenham, north London, where Black youths once beat to death a young police constable) graciously agreed that the Macpherson Report offered "a last chance" for Britain to give him all the money ooops improve multicultural awareness.
      Sir Condom comdemned "the thugs, er, the brutal racist thugs who killed Stephen" -- acknowledging the Met had abandoned its original theory that Stephen Lawrence was a victim of traditional gang warfare over drugs on south-east London's Eltham estate, but strangely implying a certainty about the guilty parties that was hardly appropriate from a policeman before a trial (let alone from a policemen after a trial where the accused had just been cleared by a jury). London's broadsheet newspapers accepted Sir Condom's effort -- only the left-wing Guardian holding out and insisting the Lawrence parents were still "angry." Meantime, the Lawrence parents filed for financial compensation for their six-year ordeal.
      Across the whole country, the only sign of White disaffection with the Macpherson verdict was that, in Eltham, white paint was poured on an engraved paving stone that has served as a memorial to Stephen Lawrence. Police quickly swarmed to the scene, where a security camera placed to deter such vandalism was found to have contained no film despite several previous attempts to deface the stone. Pleading with the media that they had only had six years, er, six hours to deal with the Lawrence affair, senior officers asked for patience as the Met. mounted its fight-back against "ignorant and revolting" people such as those who had defaced such a national monument. Meanwhile, the BBC solemnly discussed whether people should not be prosecuted for 'racist' statements made in their own homes. (There exists a 1994 Metropolitan Police covert surveillance videotape of two of the five White youths alleged to have murdered Lawrence expressing their frustrations in the Eltham home of one of them.)

{Historically, Britain's police forces enjoyed considerable autonomy from Whitehall. Now, they are to accept gratefully the kind intervention of Emperor Blair which is to spare them from the media (today's equivalent of Rome's mob, or of Britain's House of Commons in days before one-party rule). Like the Queen [who ran down her flag at Buckingham Palace in 1997 when accused of Dianagrumpiness] and Chris Woodhead [who recently apologized when accused of undue jocularity about a post-school-girlfriend], Sir Paul Condon is to be allowed to put his unconscious naughtiness behind him. Now he will concentrate on organizing public entertainment -- the tossing of other 'racists' to the lions. The failure to nip the problem in the bud has allowed the Lawrence affair to become PC's Reichstag fire -- justifying an orgy of PC endeavour by Emperor Blair. And more breast-beating and dollops of cash will follow as the five White "thugs" are put on trial for something or other -- for they will surely plead at the sentencing stage that they had themselves been nothing but the products of Britain's (unconsciously) 'racist' schoolteachers. One wonders, would it not have been easier for MI7 to have lured the Eltham Five into Holocaust revisionism while holidaying in Bavaria? Or into a little paedophilia?}

As the Macpherson Report -- marking, according to Mr Blair, "a very important moment in the life of our country" -- was perused by London journalists, it turned out to propose:

Hilariously, in view of concern not to prejudice any further prosecution of the Eltham Five, the Appendices of the Macpherson Report had to be withdrawn by the Home Office within 24 hours of publication. They contained the names and addresses of people who had acted as police informants against the five White youths. The Lawrence Commission admitted the gross error was its own. {Generally, the populations of Eltham, Lewisham, Plumstead and Chislehurst, in south-east London, have been pretty loyal to the youths. Neighbours standardly tell journalists the young men are quiet, polite, nice, respectful, smartly dressed etc. The area is nouveau-middle-class, with mock Tudor houses like the one where star suspect David Norris lives, which has a high surrounding wall, tall iron gates, floodlights, a home intercom system, other security protection, and Daddy's Porsche.} The withdrawal was in vain: the addresses had already been posted on the Net.
Anxiety about the serious suggestions of the Report at last surfaced. The lead editorial in the Times concluded: "the erosion of traditional freedoms [proposed in the Macpherson Report] is not justified at all." {It is astonishing that a report by an ex-High Court judge should meet with such a reception from the Times -- still the paper for Britain's top people. Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, 73, a keen parachutist, had always been known as a 'tough' judge and had been given 'anti-racist' training prior to taking on the inquiry. It may be that he became over-enthusiastic for his new line of work. Alternatively, it could have been that large parts of the Report were pretty much dictated to him by others. -- The Times suggested Sir William became quite fed up with the amount of time he had to spend in London, away from his country seat at Blairgowrie, Scotland.}

Several south-east Londoners who had informed on the Eltham Five went into hiding, fearing retribution from the local community.
      The Times revealed how the Daily Mail (which has a 50% Conservative readership, making it one of Britain's relatively right-wing papers) had come to campaign so hard on behalf of the Lawrences against the Eltham Five. Apart from any calculation of what made a good story, there was a simple personal angle: Neville Lawrence is a house painter and had worked in the home of Mail editor, Paul Dacre.
      The lead editorial in the Times dismissed the idea that any changes were necessary so as to respond to the Macpherson Report. The "sensible" Education Minister, David Blunkett, "should thank the Inquiry for its work and then let teachers get on with theirs," concluded the Thunderer. {It is wonderful that the Report should at last be dismissed in this way by the Times. The Times plainly takes the same view as this NewsLetter: that Sir William Macpherson -- whether or not because he had banged his head while parachuting -- had as little to do with the writing of the Report as he had any hand in checking whether he liked the final result [with its listing of police informers].}
      Letters to the Times were equally divided (as were the sentiments of 451 Daily Telegraph readers who responded to requests for opinion). One correspondent said Sir Paul Condon should at least resign his knighthood; another, David Coleman, of Oxford, pointed to the difficulties that would now be experienced in arresting minority youths for lesser offences and in refusing minorities promotion or immigration. "Another dismal consequence," Coleman continued, "will be the additional influence given to the ideological zealots of the "anti-racist" movement, whose intolerance and witch-hunts have already damaged standards in some areas of education, social work and probation work."

After several days of piety, writers in the London press began to call the Report by Sir William Macpherson of Cluny "insane" (Independent, 27 ii '99) and "Orwellian" (Financial Times 27 ii '99).
A Scottish Sunday newspaper made contact with McDNL HQ to query the idea that most muggings in London are by Black people (McDNL 23 ii '99). Apparently, the paper was unaware that such points have previously been made in the UK media without causing a riot. Thus, Maureen Widdup wrote in the Sunday Times (27 iv '97, 'COLOUR BLINDNESS THAT SHIELDS THE MUGGER -- Political Correctness Prevents Us Facing Facts That Could Help Fight Street Crime'): "Muggings have reached epidemic proportions: 40,000 are now reported each year in London alone, where a high proportion are committed by black men on white women....."
But hadn't the McDougall NewsLetter been wrong to joke that the London Black community might be 'institutionally criminal'? -- Hardly, when Sir William MacLuny had chosen to denounce the Metropolitan Police Force as 'unconsciously institutionally racist' -- and, by implication, any other British institution that 'anti-racists' might select at their leisure!

The Macpherson Report was revealed to have cost £UK3.4million to decide precisely nothing. No penalties had followed either for Metropolitan Police officers or for the Eltham Five, and Home Secretary Mr Jack Straw was said to 'have reservations' about criminalizing breakfast table conversations in the home and making kids confess their parents' heresies to schoolteachers each morning.
British Conservatives carefully remained unamused. Amidst the 'anti-racist' dismay at how the Report was being received, they criticized Mr Straw and his wife for taking a weekend awaybreak in the south of France while police informers were fleeing their homes all over south-east London; and they repeatedly demanded the source of the leak of the Report -- normally thought to be Black (well, marginal) junior Home Office Minister Paul Boateng. (Boateng had supposedly wanted to get round his Government's strategy of protecting Sir Paul Condon. Thus he delivered the head of Sir Paul on a platter to the media before the Government could announce its welcome for the Report and intention to make multi-million pound antiracialunatic expenditures. Boateng and Condon are not on speaking terms -- at least at London dinner parties. One problem is that Boateng intends to make all stop-and-search actions be recorded, with copies given to suspects to assist their subsequent complaints to the Race Relations Board. -- At present, doped-up Black youths often forget to ask the names and numbers of officers who stop them to make inquiries.)
Genuinely disconcerted with developments were writers for London's main left-wing Sunday broadsheet, the Observer. For a start, the leading Black activist, Lee Jasper, who sits on many government committees, is so fed up that he will resign from everything if Sir Paul does not quit. A resignation is "a prerequisite to ongoing dialogue," he says. Then there are all the other cases of police brutality that are being forgotten: every year 36 young men die in police custody, and 83 in Britain's jails. Most of them White, but still it is embarrassing that the left has not taken up their cause. Then there are the White racists themselves -- the people whose jobs have already been filled by immigrants while Observer readers have been able to rely on the fact that ethnic minorities have not gone in for getting Oxbridge degrees. Something should be done to reconcile them to neosocialism, though columnist Andrew Marr declares miscegenation to be "the best answer" -- if impractical. Where to start (apart from obviously following the USA in setting up racial quotas on every middle-class job in the land)? {The fact that the USA -- as seen in referenda in California and Washington -- is beginning to pull away from quotas escapes Marr.} Well, says Marr {who has a jokey style, but he is not joking here} "repression can be a great civilising influence for good." When that is the best a White leftie can manage at Mr Blair's 'historic juncture for Britain', it is small wonder that Black Trevor Phillips, who edited the Observer's three special pages of news coverage of Macpherson, can do no better:

Well, what about speech where no offence is intended, like when comedians perform at police retirement parties (many of which may soon occur)?

Oops! But didn't the darkies come to Yukay wanting to be a part of the British way of life where daily humour makes the wheels go round and has classically prevented the kinds of civil strife that have torn apart countries like Germany, France, Spain and Ireland over the past three centuries?

No wonder the mood at the top policeman's London pub Feathers (aka The Racist's Return, used by officers from New Scotland Yard) was sombre. "We made one mistake and suddenly we're evil racists," moaned one officer. "This week it's race, but they could use anything to have a go at us," echoed another. {The capacity of the police to stick up for themselves on intellectual grounds has been markedly slight over the past year. They long ago lost the battle with the media to point out that their high rate of stopping-and-searching Black youths is well in line with Black criminality as reported in victim surveys and in countries that are themselves run by Blacks. Never does a police chief mention having read Phil Rushton's Race, Evolution and Behavior or Chris Brand's The g Factor.}
More happily, by this weekend, other newspapers were beginning to follow McDNL's lead. The Independent on Sunday claimed the Report was "mired in controversy" as legal eagles deplored its threats to liberty (p. 1); the Sunday Herald (Scotland) banner-headlined a former Strathclyde police chief saying the Report was "outrageous" (p. 1); and Classic FM Radio News said criticism of the Report was "widespread." The paper(s) that contacted McDNL (probably Scotland on Sunday and Scottish Mail on Sunday) apparently found HQ views too reasonable to print. Even Britain's main Labour-backing tabloid, the Daily Mirror (circulation 5 million; retailed as Daily Record in Scotland), was unhappy with Straw's handling of the Report; so it offered to pay all the legal fees of the Eltham Five to allow them to sue the Daily Mail (which has called the Five "murderers") for libel. {Just how much worse the fate of the embattled Eltham Five could become after losing a libel action is not obvious. But it is nice to think of Britain's processes of civil law being given a whirl when the criminal law has failed to jail Stephen Lawrence's murderer(s) and when the Inquiry process has done nothing but expose British civil liberties as being seriously at risk from 'anti-racist' media frenzy.}

Returned from France, Mr Straw said it was his view that all the recommendations of the Macpherson Report without exception deserved "very serious consideration" -- e.g. by the Law Society. After that, matters would rest with the House of Commons -- where only 9 of 690 MPs are Black but where the Labour Party pressured its own constituency parties to select more female candidates in 1997, producing the 100 female MPs usually called 'Blair's Babes.' If the Labour Party is to embark on a system of affirmative actions, set-asides and quotas for Britain, it will arguably have to start by putting its own house in anti-racist 'order.'

Hot-footing it around London broadcasting studios, Mr Jack Straw explained his problem with vetting the Macpherson Report when he first received it two weeks ago. He had been told that various names had been omitted from the Report. So when he saw the list of informants he could hardly ask why they had not been omitted, could he? -- Straw thus revealed that he had had two weeks to ponder the Report's antiracialunatic proposals (double jeopardy etc.). Yet still he talks of such illiberalism requiring "serious consideration" and legislation in the autumn.
Meanwhile, Conservative home affairs spokesman Norman Fowler demanded Straw consider his position (parliamentary language for 'consider resigning'). After all, Straw had popped off to replenish his duty-frees leaving Britain at the mercy of any Anti-Nazi League supporter inventive enough to stage an apparently 'racist' attack on a police informer.
Adding fuel to the flames licking at liberty and meritocracy, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for England and Wales issued a report saying some police were individually racist and that 40% of police forces had failed to develop conspicuous programmes for racial equality (e.g. for monitoring retention and promotion rates of Black and 'Asian' entrants). Metropolitan police were actually praised for their enlightened response to the HMIC's anti-racist directives of fifteen months ago; but the Forces of the West Midlands and Merseyside [Birmingham and Liverpool -- areas of high ethnic minority concentration] were especially criticized for making insufficient efforts to lick Black ass ooops develop an ongoing programme of community relations.

What is happening here? Partly, Britain is just swimming along behind the USA which has for thirty years been embarked on the process of making its inner cities uninhabitable by paying for family break-up. (Today, the USA can only deal with Black crime by keeping nearly two million of its citizens in prison -- when it hasn't executed them.) Partly, the British psychology is ideal for PC -- for English people have always stressed good manners, classically making parliamentary government a possibility.
What? 'Britain hardly has any Black people'? Sure, Britain's immigrant population is principally from Pakistan and has done very well -- drink-free, AIDS-free, making a real contribution with every street corner shop and annoying feminists with its successful patriarchalism. Yet, though Britain has fewer people of African descent than does the USA, it long ran the world's biggest and best empire from its cold and damp island fastness. It has always been renowned for melancholy and for the all-day-drinkable restorative of ale -- a ritual central to the national sport of cricket. Sure, Britain may have few Blacks; but it makes up in that ailment of thoughtfulness, tolerance and compassion, White guilt.

Edinburgh LUniversity

EDINBURGH  --  Top UK historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy, who is well known to Spectator readers, is furious with Edinburgh LUniversity's "totalitarianism." In 1990, the LUni withdrew a book of his, The Minister and the Massacres from its Main Library following a libel action against Tolstoy in London. Tolstoy believes British Army officers in 1945 forcibly repatriated captured Cossack soldiers to Russia -- as demanded by Stalin -- knowing full well that these troops faced slave labour camp or instant death.
      Even though Tolstoy lost his libel action and was bankrupted, owing £UK1.5 million, his book was not withdrawn by the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen. (The libel action had concerned a pamphlet by Tolstoy rather than the book itself.) Tolstoy told Student (25 ii '99): "Edinburgh University has behaved appallingly. Things have reached a pretty pass when university libraries volunteer to act as censors for the state. Even in Soviet Russia that did not happen. ….They have behaved very creepily."
      Last month, Tolstoy's book was restored to E.LU. shelves as Tolstoy was invited to address the university students' Russian Society and repeated his 'libellous' claims; but Tolstoy said the move came too late.
      The Tolstoy family is descended from a trusted agent of Russia's Peter the Great (1645-1729).

{Well pleased with Edinburgh University's 'creepy' 'authoritarianism', the Government has had Dame Stewart Sutherland in charge of explaining why old people (deprived of relatives in a Britain of collapsed marriages) have to bankrupt themselves before the state will spend a penny on providing them with home helps and nursing care. -- The British principle is that it is quite OK to spend £UK100,000 on surgery to keep a seventy-year-old alive for six months but impossible to spend the £UK3,000p.a. that would provide a young part-time personal assistant and thus a reasonable quality of life for the old person's next thirty years. Now, after spending a million pounds collecting evidence, Dame Stewart has announced that the Government might try socialism as the answer -- and give Britain's oldies free nursing care at a bill of £UK6billion annually by 2020. So imaginative! Fat chance that Mr Blair will revert to Old Labour socialism after all he has been through! The Dame has not even thought of letting people themselves select what insurance they want for old age. Most would far rather have a comfortable, cannabis-based euthanasia than the astonishing efforts to keep old people alive which mean that most hospital beds in Britain are occupied by people over 70 who can barely be kept alive, let alone restored to health; and the money thus saved would fund their needs for occasional nurses, part-time housekeepers and odd-job men several times over.}

Other British LUniversities

According to the Times (26 ii '99), "A schizophrenic woman who earned almost £UK200,000 after fooling a university into giving her a senior post was yesterday sent to a secure psychiatric unit after two years on the run."

Yes, it's all true. Soraya Yuksel (an overweight mother of two) had gained herself a lectureship at the University of Reading by forged references and photocopies claiming she had Honours in Arabic and Islamic History from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. from the University of Durham. Reading University said her work as a teacher was perfectly satisfactory, but they took her to court for fraud when given a tip-off in 1995. At this point Yuksel absconded -- but re-surfaced under another name as a senior lecturer at the University of Warwick.

This sorry reflection on what it takes to work in a British university these days -- so long as students are fawned upon -- is reinforced by Yuksel's psychiatric record: she was hospitalized for schizophrenia in 1977, 1971, 1983 and 1996.

This time, a High Court judge has sent the lecturer to Queen Charlotte Hospital's secure unit, near Hastings.

War on Drugs

GIRL KILLED AT 13 BY A SINGLE PILL

That absurd job creation programme, the 'war on drugs' (meaning that drugs are never labelled with sell-by dates, toxicity warnings, Health Warnings and advice on genetic modifications), has claimed another British victim. Thirteen-year-old Leah Lawson of Grimsby purchased for £UK10-00 a 'cocktail' of three pills -- of Valium, Mogadon and methadone -- on the by no means run-down housing estate in Grimsby where she lived. The small green pill alone contained enough methadone to kill a novice user; and within four hours Leah was found dead by her mother on the sofa in front of the Lawsons' sitting room tele. It is true that Leah had one sister who is alcoholic and another who is a heroin addict. (The latter made a collection from the estate after Leah's death to buy a wreath -- but spent all the money she collected on heroin.) True, too, that Leah had been mixing with a 'bad crowd', that she had been planning to have a belly ring, and that her mother had thought of putting her into care. Nevertheless, no 13-year-old should have to die to show it is time for drugs to be legalized and controlled in the same manner as drink.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA (U-WIRE 22 ii '99) -- Affirmative Racism Reduced -- In response to changing legal standards across the country, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst announced that it would reduce the role race and ethnicity play in admissions and financial aid decisions. The changes at UMass are expected to decrease minority representation in next year's class by up to 200 students -- five percent of the 3,700-person class.

JASPER, Texas -- In the pickup-truck trial, it emerged that John King -- now sentenced to death by lethal injection for the grisly murder -- was, like his beheaded-by-towing victim, Black James Byrd Jr., a recidivist who had experienced bitter times in prison in the USA. King had been on the receiving end of Black racism while in prison and joined the Confederate Knights of America in response. His lawyers pleaded that executing him would keep racial tensions inflamed in Jasper; but King himself was defiant rather than contrite. In a statement issued later through his attorney, King maintained his innocence of the crime and said, ``It's been obvious from the beginning that this community would get what they desired, so I'll close with the words of Francis Yockey (a neo-Nazi writer who died in 1960): 'The promise of success is with the man who is determined to die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.''' {Hopefully, King will now be able to read The g Factor in prison and explain to waiting newshounds its importance as a way of settling the race question in the States for good and all. There are 451 people currently on 'death row' in Texas. Conditions for White males in US penitentiaries are vividly described in Tom Wolfe's new novel, A Man in Full, Chapters XV and XVII.}

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Radio shock jock Doug Tracht was fired for making a remark linking the music of Black hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill and the gruesome Texas pickup-truck murder. Tracht, a popular personality on Washington's WARW-FM radio station, played part of a song by Hill and then joked to listeners: ``No wonder people drag 'em behind trucks!'' The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) commended WARW's swift action against Tracht. "Doug Tracht is entitled to his beliefs and he is entitled to express them. In our opinion, his bigoted and offensive views should not be given air time,'' said ADL, articulating the modern censorship conducted by the likes of Wiley DePublisher. While working for a different radio station in 1986, Tracht caused controversy when he made a joke about the Martin Luther King holiday: ``Kill four more and we can take a whole week off!''

Sidney Cooke, 73, Britain's star 'paedophile' {in fact a paedosadist -- see McDNL 23 ii '99, PAEDOPHILIA DISTINCT FROM PAEDOSADISM, ADMITS FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY EXPERT} has been remanded in custody to face more charges from over twenty years ago.

Professor David Canter, Britain's star forensic psychologist {who recently distinguished paedophilia from paedosadism -- see above} has been demonstrating his familiarity with 'harassment' in court. Canter, 55, who is employed by Liverpool University, told a court of how a former secretary, Gillian Hartshorne, 50, made him scores of "frightening" phone calls after he had dumped her for a younger model ooops secretary, Samantha Lundrigan. {Just why Prof. Canter should have needed the law to help him deal with Ms Hartshorne remains unclear. It may be that Prof. Canter has a wife or children who were frightened by the calls; or that Ms Hartshorne had made many such calls and Prof. Canter was the only person with the presence of mind or facilities to tape what she said.} PS Hartshorne was finally convicted of the heinous crime and Prof. Canter (photo on p. 60 of Times Higher, 5 iii '99) said merely that "the intensity of the harassment was such that police had to be called." One evening, insisting that her lack of promotion was due to the professor's adulterous liaison, Hartshorne had made 50 calls to the professor's home.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (Times 24 ii '99) -- An 11-year-old boy from Edinburgh has been placed for life by a court on the UK's new Register of Sex Offenders. He had apparently done something with a 2-year-old girl, but no-one can be told the name of the offender or the victim or the crime -- such is modern justice. (The age of criminal responsibility in England is 10.)

Little Saigon, Westminster, CALIFORNIA (Reuters) -- A shopkeeper from former North Vietnam who had won the right (under the US Constitution's First Amendment) to hang a poster of Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh in his shop was met by scores of protesters and knocked to the ground when he once more tried to do so. Truong Van Tran has taunted local residents from former South Vietnam to run him out of town, and his shop and poster had attracted demonstrations by as many as 10,000 people. Most of the Little Saigon community's 200,000 residents are former political prisoners or refugees who despise the communist government.{Now the question is whether the USA will continue to protect Truong's free speech or apply the multicultural-diversity principle that immigrants should expect only the rights that they would have in their cultures of origin…. This question will be of interest in view of likely disputes and riots in future between Muslims and Hindus in Britain. Under the US Constitution, free speech can presently be restricted only if it is personally libellous or immediately seditious.}

AUSTRALIA (www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99/) -- Dymocks, a national book store chain has written to Scott Balson, the author of the book, Murder by Media, exposing Aussie corruption but now banished from all Dymocks' stores by a top executive's order. The letter is a shameful admission of Dymocks' cowardice in the face of the truth, and a sad example of the state of affairs in Australia's media. Here is what Dymocks' managing director had to say: "Even if that is in fact the case [that the book contained the truth], we have been advised that truth alone is not a defence to defamation actions in Australia." {The censored author can be contacted at: gwb@gwb.com.au.}

HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Observer 28 ii '99) -- Happiness is largely a matter of personality, not of 'life events' or 'situations.' Psychologist Daniel Gilbert has rediscovered this core truth of personology while studying his fellow academics. Thinking that winning tenure would cheer them up, Gilbert applied taxpayers dollars to the study of the problem. The result was that winning tenure made no difference to self-reported happiness at all -- or to anything else detectable. Says the surprised Gilbert, discussing his result: "Most people are reasonably happy for most of the time, and most events do little to change that for long." {The lack of and simple influence of the environment is documented in PERSONALITY, BIOLOGY & SOCIETY, Quotes II; and the nature of neuroticism vs stability/contentment as a personality variable is explained in Chris Brand's article 'The n factor' and in Quotes XIV -- currently the basis of research in Spain on sex, romance and personality.}

SCOTLAND -- Recent literacy research at St Andrews University concluded that a group of pupils taught synthetic phonics outperformed those who learned to read through analytic phonics. The analytic variety encourages pupils to start with a word and split it into its constituent sounds. The synthetic rival -- believed to have the backing of HM chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead -- starts with sounds which are then combined to form words (Times Educational Supplement 19 ii '99). {For McDNL's own reading scheme for infants, see .}

CAIRO (Reuters) -- Sensational McDNL Babe Bagger Entry! -- An Egyptian farmer said to be 114 years old plans to marry a 17-year-old, despite opposition from his family and intervention by police (Putative PaedoScore 97!). Egyptian police sources say that Fayez Sultan's son Mohamed, aged 80, had complained that his father planned to give his farm to the would-be bride. Police have set up a traditional committee to settle the dispute in the province of Sohag, some 250 miles south of Cairo. Sultan has 45 grandchildren from seven sons and daughters.

LAGOS (23 ii '99, http://www.nandotimes.com, Peter Cunliffe-Jones) (McDNL MiniNewsFeature) -- Loaded into a sprawling evangelical church, in a run-down district of Lagos on a sweltering Sunday last month, around 2,000 people watched as Pastor Temitope Joshua, a self-proclaimed prophet and healer, went through his weekly ritual. This particular day the crop was a good one. Twelve people living with AIDS shuffled forward to receive a longed-for blessing. They were admonished for the sin of fornication which, they were told, brought on their condition, and asked to cast out the evil spirit. Pastor Joshua then "blessed" them and they were "healed". "Hallelujah!" Immediately, smartly-dressed church workers went round with collection boxes and everyone present was urged to contribute. At 20 naira or 50 naira (25 to 60 U.S. cents) a throw, and with a congregation of 2,000, the Sunday service was indeed a profitable business. ….With Nigeria's population set to double by 2020, the number of those carrying the virus is expected to reach as many as 75 million. ….Funding for oil-rich Nigeria's National AIDS and STD (sexually-transmitted diseases) Control Program has been "almost non-existent" in the past five crucial years, and there is almost no attempt at a government-level education campaign, say the Program's officials.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Michigan Daily [U. Michigan]) -- "We won't take resegregation; we want quality education!" Dozens of students chanted this slogan as they marched in a 'Student and Youth National Day of Action' rally. "This is a real movement," said constipated ooops concerned student Jessica Curtin, a member of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary. The rally was a way to support "complete equality and complete integration of society," said Curtin, a Michigan Student Assembly representative. She added that Day of Action participants fought for equality in areas including Kindergarten-to-12 education, employment and housing.

TRENTON, North Carolina (Associated Press) -- This tiny town has already been torn by a lawsuit alleging that blacks have been denied a voice in local government. Now the mayor is quoted as saying that blacks have no capacity for leadership and would rather work for whites. Trenton Mayor Joffree Leggett told The Free Press of Kinston that if blacks were working together in a store, "within a few years, they'd be stealing from each other and they'd be out of business." "They're not leaders," he said in a story published Wednesday. "A black man would rather work for a white person." ….State NAACP President Skip Alston said he would ask local chapters of the civil rights group to investigate immediately. If the statements attributed to Leggett are verified, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will push for his removal, Alston said. PS The Mayor resigned.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Civil rights leaders demanded a White House summit on race-related police brutality, after what they called excessive force by police in New York and California. Amidou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, had been shot 19 times by New York police February 4 as he stood in the doorway of his apartment building in the Bronx. ….In Riverside, California, a black teen-ager had died December 28 in a hail of police gunfire as she sat in her locked car in a gas station. All the officers in both cases were white, except for one Hispanic in Riverside.

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Supreme Court to retain a ban on the import a collection of photographs by the late American artist, Robert Mapplethorpe, known for his homoerotic images. The work was deemed obscene because it contained photos "emphasizing male genitals," said a court official.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Until the breakthrough by UK electronics wizard Patrick 'Rub-I.Q.' Brossert (McDNL 23 ii '99), the main 'millennium bug' problem came from lawyers and the absence of proper contracts and statutes of limitation. US Republican David Dreier (California) estimated there might be $1 trillion in lawsuits filed because of the glitch and urged adoption of an industry-backed House bill to allay "a great deal of fear regarding out-of-control litigation."

PRAGUE (Reuters) -- The Czech Interior Ministry, irritated by a recent surge in uncontrolled prostitution and related crime, hopes to bring order to the world's oldest profession by taxing and regulating it. {McDNL editor Chris Brand has applied for a job as an under-cover tax snooper….}

LONDON -- Hearing that Prime Minister Blair is 'changing gear' and preparing for Britain to enter 'the single currency' (aka United States of Europe), former Foreign Secretary Dr David Owen who, with Roy Jenkins, broke the Labour Party in 1979, giving Mrs Thatcher her ten years to end the union domination of British politics, has declared himself a neoeuropean -- wanting a Europe Des jeunes filles without the boring bits. Chris Brand's one-time colleague and housemate, Labour MP Austin Mitchell, the funniest man in British politics, is also coming out for New Europe, as are such revered 'characters' as Britain's top left- and right-wing politicians Tony Benn and Norman Tebbit, and NATO's Denis Healey (the only man who could ever put down Milton Friedman). {Unless the USA should choose to pay a lot of dollars for Britain to be the Trojan horse at Brussels, neoeuropeanism seems the best bet. I am one of the very few psychologists ever to have any substantial work published in a Continental language -- Spanish. However, over three years, the affair of The g Factor has demonstrated that both race realism and free speech are topics in which the overwhelming interest is from the English-speaking countries. Whatever France and Germany think about race and freedom, their thoughts do not arrive in Britain -- even in the most up-market publications of which I have been able to read more since being fired by Edinburgh LUniversity. Further integration into Europe may well be sensible, and should doubtless be undertaken if America wishes; but it would not be much fun. Already Mr Blair has Imperial airs, and he might well be a very good Charlemagne as Charlemagnes go. Yet when London is about to lose its best club, the House of Lords, it would seem sheer folly to consign the House of Commons to the scrapheap as well.}

Anti-Abusohysteria

(Journal of the American Medical Association 281, 764-765, 24 ii '99, Richard P. Kluft)

A sustained exploration of the theme of child abuse in modern culture has been provided by James R. Kincaid, the Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California (Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting, pp. 352 pp, with illustrations, $US24.95, ISBN 0-8223-2177-7, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1998). Kincaid's theme is that repression of Freud's claim that children are 'sexual' allows a continuing Gothic fantasy scenario for the modern West in which 'innocent' children are pursued by adult demons. When this game becomes too boring, roles are reversed: 'demons' are revealed to be martyrs of children's 'recovered memories', and social workers and kindred professional helpers of children are found to be sexually repressed religious maniacs.

Whether Kincaid's effort will be enough to expose paedohysteria is doubtful. There is a more important Freudian analysis that Kincaid leaves to one side. This concerns the sexual feelings of parents for children -- and especially the love of mothers for their sons, intensified as this is in days when White women have few children and can often get rid of their husbands by divorce soon after their Oedipal affair has become the central item of their lives. Arguably, it is repression of Freud's exposure of parental sexuality that provides the skeleton in the last locked coffin in the Gothic castle. Incestuous feelings may provide the essential psychodynamic momentum which yields 'revulsion' at adult sex advances to children. Horror at the slightest sexual overtures to children by adults persists even while young teenage girls regularly fall pregnant by irresponsible, immature, illiterate and spotty teenagers -- especially in Britain.

Not that this is the whole of the story. As Freud maintained, most things are 'over-determined', and paedohysteria is no exception. As well as discharging parental guilt feelings and self-loathing on to 'dirty old men' (and a few women gym teachers), paedohysteria is also very pleasing to the feminist movement which likes the most normal adult man to feel under threat of jail sentence at every turn. What can be cuter than a long-running media scare, backed by the denizens of Britain's council estates, against any man who fancies a fifteen-year-old? (At present, the campaign has gone so far that it would be a daring pop star or football manager who even dated a seventeen-year-old.) To have that wider campaign against male sexuality backed up by immediate jail for any adult who ever groped a twelve-year-old ten years ago is ideal for feminazies. Let men tremble at what unspecified molestations or down-loadings of twenty years ago may ever be proved against them on the unsupported testimony of child witnesses who themselves are not publicly identified! That's what wymmin like to see!

Kincaid is surely right to think that adult fantasies are being savoured as entertainment while children themselves are left without any serious sexual morality and even without understanding of sexual and contraceptive techniques. That girls should be discouraged from their traditional major goal of finding their wonder-man and offering him devotion and virginity is itself a far more serious abuse than allowing 'paedophiles' to do some social good by serving cheaply as priests, schoolteachers, social workers, choirmasters and youth club leaders. Only worse is the major abuse of today's children by egalitarian educators: the failure to allow children and their parents a choice of school track (or set, group, stream or band) is a national crime against kids that has eroded educational standards for over a generation. Now that even the supremely powerful Mr Blair has proved incapable of reading The g Factor and introducing choice within state schools, the crime will have to be met by a veritable neoliberal revolution that will sweep away egalitarian fancifulness and all those who have practised it. Roll on Kids Lib!

Paedo-Alert

Leading Scottish novelist Allan MASSIE, after declaring that Rudyard Kipling's Kim is perhaps the best novel of all time, notes (Literary Review i '99) : "Angus Wilson {the esteemed modern English novelist, normally assumed to have been homosexual} believed that Kipling was an unconscious pederast -- principally because he wrote so lovingly of Kim and Mowgli. Certainly [Kipling] enjoyed the company of boys. But that again proves nothing, or wouldn't to any but our sex-obsessed age."

{Polls have shown Kipling's poem, If, is the favourite poem of British people today.}

Collectivism Corrected

(Times Literary Supplement 8 i '99, Kenneth Minogue [Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of London])

A sensible individualism is now beckoning intellectuals for the first time since William McDougall's suggestion that society's 'group mind' has -- as we might say today -- the same relation to the individual mind as does crystallized to fluid intelligence.*

In Lorenzo Infantino's Individualism in Modern Thought (1998, Routledge, £UK50) there is a fundamental acceptance of the theses of Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Mandeville** and Adam Smith that, within the rule of law, private vices actually constitute public benefits -- yielding not least the dynamism and innovativeness of the West since the collapse of the mediaeval quest for virtue via hierarchically ordered duties. Infantino rejects the collectivist thinking of both the traditional left (Hegel, Marx, modern constructivism) and right (Salisbury, Scruton, American fundamentalism). People are not -- either essentially or actually -- the creations of society, argues Infantino; nor can they be morally purified by the crusades of dominies and their hypocritical politicians. However, while denying the sociologists' thesis that society is a matter of conscious choice and overpowering influence, Infantino is happy to allow that the society created by the work of human choice (via the economists' 'hidden hand') is nevertheless a distinct creation which has a life of its own. Via its 'group mind', it allows us to draw on the previous individual minds that yielded its rules, principles and conventions. Infantino rejects the idea of sociologist Talcott Parsons that we are all rule takers; but he is happy with the idea -- central to William McDougall's analysis -- that we are all rule makers.

As talk of the full-blown Marxist project*** grew sheepish in universities of the 1980's, it became fashionable to assert the values not of communism and the Comintern but of sweeter-sounding 'collectivism' and 'communitarianism.' Mrs Thatcher's elemental individualism, when she told the Church of Scotland 'there is no such thing as society', was particularly grasped as giving the left an opening for a 'compassionate' but essentially corporatist come-back. Even though many left-wing policies had to be burned on the altar before emperors Clinton and Blair would agree to wear robes and provide the new leadership, the prospect of a happy-clappy Hegelianism still beckoned. (Mr Blair retains genuine personal enthusiasm for religion -- as apparently does Mr Clinton.) Mrs Thatcher's reductionism would be met by an equally persuasive reduction of the individual to society -- with even right-ists welcomed on board for their affecting if antique insistence that moral values and social traditions should over-ride individual choice. In fact, the only 'moral values' allowed centre-stage have been those of relativism. The new collectivity of the West condemns not what is demonstrably false or harmful or plain wrong, but beliefs and sayings that are 'insensitive', 'anti-social', 'uncomfortable' and 'unacceptable'. The new collective ethic of neosocialism -- in so far as it does not just borrow the clothes of that old right-wing heroine, 'Laura Norder' -- swings into action not against demonstrable harm or preventable psychopathology but against whatever the mob and the tabloids happen to find 'offensive.' Thus does PC accrue justification for proceeding against other 'outrages to decency' that are brought forward by feminazies and 'antiracists.'

It is therefore a relief to find Infantino's cogent individualism back on the table. His is not an individualism that denies the reality of society, but one that specifies society's authority as that of a diary to a diarist -- providing access to thinking rather than a substitute for it. As the reviewer for TLS, Kenneth Minogue, points out, individualism requires that thought, conscience and intelligence should be at work in individuals. -- Without these mental functions, individualism would be nothing but that expression of 'the passions' which Hume's work led German idealists to fear. Plato's balance of Reason and the Passions must, under individualism, be achieved within individuals themselves -- encouraged by laws that allow both choice and full acceptance of the consequences of choice. Infantino, says Minogue, has added an important Italian contribution to coherent individualism -- previously a fief of British and Austrian thinkers.

Such assistance against the dominant corporatism and collectivism of Euroland is to be welcomed. Enormous progress in knowledge, affluence and liberty has occurred since individualism replaced mediaevalism. Even though some passengers on the journey have grown nervous and predicted 'Decline and Fall', the liberal-capitalist West has survived and now provides the world's only super-power. Kenneth Minogue puts it well: "Individualism….[is] the practice of living in terms of coherent desires under the rule of law…. [It] unleashed, for better or worse, everything that makes the modern West dynamic and innovative." It is good to see individualism finding a Continental supporter.

* William McDougall, who classed himself as an individualist (Group Mind, 1920, Preface), rejected any idea of societies having a "collective consciousness"[Hegel] or a 'will' or 'conscience' of their own, let alone an 'unconscious soul' (Chapter 1). He feared that even to discuss the group mind would lead him to be accused of collectivism, syndicalism, socialism, communism or immoderate patriotism. Instead, McDougall reserved the term 'collective mind' for groups such as nations having "an organized system of interacting mental or psychical forces" -- as in their constitutions. He expressly rejected the idea that the mental or psychic world had to be conscious -- thus anticipating the distinction made by Karl Popper between the realm of mind and the realm of the products of mind. In its highest state, McDougall thought society would be a "contractual organism" (Chapter 12). The degree of 'crystallization' required to yield the group mind may be judged from McDougall's view that 'public opinion is due more to the dead than to the living' (Chapter 13). This was not to under-rate the state's importance: 'In the infancy of nations, men shape the State; in the maturity of nations, the State shapes the men' (Chapter 15). (Of course, even well-established societies could be rapidly undermined by the breeding of people who would prove incapable of hearing the ancient drumbeats. McDougall regarded mulattos, Eurasians [in India] and the Dutch Javanese as illustrating the ease with which cross-breeding can fail; and he cautioned the West against coloured migration and intermarriage.)

** The Dutch-born Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) was a medical doctor whose satirical writings on political economy predated those of Adam Smith (1723-1790). Though settled in London from 1692, Mandeville's analyses of all 'virtues' as forms of selfishness led to his impious writing being condemned by a Grand Jury of Middlesex.

*** Marx's anti-individualism led him to approve the concept Gattungswesen -- usually translated as 'species being' or 'species life.' The idea, which had come from Hegel, was that human beings have no true existence in isolation from others of their kind. -- Forget the scholar who works largely alone (as did Copernicus, Darwin and Freud, and indeed Marx himself)! On a Marxist analysis, he does not exist!

Civilization Realism

The fine Black US economist, Thomas Sowell, has recently contributed another volume* to his series intended to explain that Black people had bad luck, historically, in not enjoying much 'cultural capital'. However, reviewing TS's oeuvre in PINC, Gavan Tredoux was not impressed:

Rather, GT backs the importance of peoples rather than their environs. Consider the Jews:

Nor would anyone have thought England or Japan propitious vehicles for civilization -- at least until coal-mining became a possibility in the former.

* Conquests and Cultures: an International History, New York, Basic Books, 1998.

Conservatives….

Despite Bill Clinton being cleared of all the charges against him in the highest court of his country, US Republican supporters are continuing to pursue their tirade against their President's sex life. Here's what is Item No. 1 for 'Capitol Hill Blue' (http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Feb1999/022099/clintonrape022099.htm):

Come off, it, kids! This is fiddling while Rome burns. Quite apart from Oxford University having no such existence [campus!?], I was a young don in central Oxford at the time and heard of no such case -- which would certainly have engaged the attention of all reasonably prurient Senior Common Rooms if the slightest fuss had been made. Nor was there a credible Oxford pub venue for anything approaching rape -- so perhaps the pair had, let's admit it, retired together to the college room (i.e. home) of one of them? Anyway, who would assault a "woman" when Oxford has all those nice girls in subfusc and matching knickers? And what is a retired diplomat doing using the status of his former employment while not giving his own name? This case as stated is pathetic -- as well as being well beyond the time that would be allowed under any reasonable Statute of Limitations. It's time for you'se all at 'Capitol Hill Blue' to start reading The g Factor at last and working up your neoliberalism!

{In the USA, the President's latest female accuser, Mrs Juanita Broaddrick, sobbed throughout her TV interview but she did not shed a single tear. McDNL's correspondent was struck by the interview seeming quite phoney.}

African Slavery and Brideprice Today

Western neosocialist religiosity may be perfectly tyrannical and hysterical -- everything that could be wished by the readers of tabloid newspapers. Yet it is not very brave.
    According to PC's own lights, the worst socio-political arrangements in the history of the world were not those of Imperial Japan (30 million dead in Manchuria alone) or the multi-ethnic kleptocracies of post-independence Africa and India (30 millions starved and butchered since 1965, 30 million dead of AIDS by 2005) but those of the Holocaust* and of White Western Slavery [of Black Africans, not by Arabs]. Yet despite its belief in bottomless White guilt for virtually anything, the West has been reluctant even to think about the gulags of Communist Russia (30 million dead) or to intervene in modern rape-torture-and-death-camping of Yugoslavia or in the slavery of nearby Mauritania and the Sudan.
      The Sudan poses a fascinating problem for the Western conscience. On the one hand, there is much evidence of the northern Muslims, who control Khartoum, virtually enslaving large numbers of southern Christians in apartheid-style encampments. The Christians report many disparus resulting from operations by Khartoum's People's Defence Forces; and some southerners definitely end up in bleak camps in western Sudan around El Da'ein. Says William Finnegan, in a ten-page report for New Yorkers, the PDF "have helped re-introduce that old staple of north-south relations in the Sudan, slavery. ….the Sudanese Arab belief that blacks belong to a lower order of being is very deep and very widespread." Khartoum's southern enemies were jubilant when US cruise missiles zapped Al Shifa, just north of Khartoum. On the other hand, the cultural practices of the southern 'Christian' Dinka tribe, now labouring in near-starvation conditions, leave much to be desired by PC standards. "We've lost our cattle for bridewealth," complained one tribesman to the New Yorker's correspondent, little appreciating how this problem might be viewed by literati in the Big Apple. Fortunately, traditional African good cheer re-asserted itself: "…when everyone is so hungry," said the tribesman, "they don't feel like getting married."
      The Sudan was run uncontroversially from 1895 to 1955 by Britain (officially in co-operation with Egypt). Only as independence was claimed (as in India of 1947) did civil war break out between the Muslim north and Christian, animist south. Since then millions have died despite occasional attempts to allow autonomy for Sudan's ethnically diverse regions.

* An essay on the HitlerZeit and its implications for the 21st century is in preparation.

{More Muslim slavery came to light in London recently, where a Kuwaiti family was found in the High Court to have enslaved a female compatriot who finally escaped from a London hotel via a drainpipe. Aristotle, too, believed in slavery; and its Ancient-Greek version was probably a lesser evil than many forms of modern single-parent life in tower blocks. However, one does wish the Muslims would be more frank about their ambitions and make a full contribution to ridding the West of neosocialism and restoring contract-based patriarchy and kindred delights.}

Psychobabbling

In Leipzig, a postman has been discovered to have passed himself of as a psychologist. Gerhardt Postel had no university degree, but he had two girlfriends who were lady doctors and soon learned enough jargon to work in hospitals and law courts as a clinical psychologist. Cutting through years of humm-ing and hah-ing, Postel reduced psychodiagnostics to one of two choices. Quiet, subdued, dim-witted or sleepy patients were described as having 'a lightly autistic psychosis'; whereas noisier or querulous patients were said to have 'an active psychosis of a schizophrenic nature.' Postel worked in Colditz Hospital [famous to British schoolboys as Colditz Castle from which so many British PoWs made heroic escapes] as Chief Neurologist and Psychiatrist and was tipped for a university chair. Unfortunately for him, he one day lost his wallet and, when it was found by police, evidence of his use of multiple identities was revealed.

Therapy Corner

Eulogistic books about Prozac have urged its marvels for cases of 'personality disorder' and some US doctor have even suggested that 95% of the population should take it. Now, however, the secret is out: media-psychiatrist Antony Storr has admitted in the Literary Review (ii '99) that the drug has "dire effects on the sex lives of a large proportion of patients who take it."
Once it was bromide that kept British sailors from wanting too much shore leave; then it was chlorpromazine that maintained British lunatics in zombie-like states requiring no locked doors; now at last Prozac provides the ultimate drug for the White race as it moves towards self-extinction.

Student Corner

For twelve years, it has been known that Black people do perfectly well on quite a few mental tests -- so long as these test memory and not the g factor. In general, the White superiority correlates around .60 with tests' g loadings (shown famously by Jensen, 1985, Behavioral & Brain Sciences 8). What is less appreciated is that the special problem which Black testees have with g cannot be attributed to anything to do with social class or experience. Arthur Jensen's 1998 book, The g Factor: the Science of Mental Abilities, goes through evidence on this point (pp. 384-7). When 172 Black and White fourth- and fifth-graders were matched for parental SES, the degree of W-B difference between them on tests correlated .85 with sub-tests' g loadings. Again, even among 66 healthy, middle-class three-year-olds, the W-B difference correlated with tests' g loadings at .71.

Competition Corner

Hearing of the breast-beating in London over the Macpherson Report into the Lawrence Affair, a McDNL correspondent writes:

White Racism

From the Fleet Street white-guilt circuit
(Andrew Marr, Sunday Times 28 ii '99):

Q: What is the difference between working-class and middle-class racism?
A: Middle-class racism is more effective.

U.K. POLICE SWOOP ON 'HATE CRIME' IN EDINBURGH, PRESTON AND WILTSHIRE. BRITISH ARMY PURGE BEGINS.

EDINBURGH LUNIVERSITY'S PSYCHOLOGISTS SHELTER BENEATH SKIRTS OF DAME STEWART

ARTHUR KOESTLER: 'brilliant, imaginative, inspirational, humane and epically courageous'

MACLUNY REPORT
      CRITICIZED BY A CONSERVATIVE!
      AMUSES EMPIRE
      SOCIOLOGY SOURCE IDENTIFIED

PLUS: Nature vs Nurture, Ethnocentrism vs Ethnofugalism, AND Sir Francis Bacon vs Vice-President Al Gore

British Army

Two British Army soldiers were among suspects arrested in nation-wide raids on alleged neo-Nazis. Police were looking for materials 'intended to or likely to stir up racial hatred'-- thus contravening Part Three of the Public Order Act 1986. Fourteen homes were raided and fifteen arrests were made as civilian and military authorities focused on alleged members of a secret paramilitary society called Combat 18 -- sometimes believed to have provided military advice to Northern Ireland's Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force, to have stirred up trouble at England vs Éireland soccer matches, and to have sent letter bombs to mixed-race couples such as Sharron Davies and Derek Redmond. Racist literature, computer disks, knives and, in one case, ammunition were seized. One security source said: "We had to get evidence against these people or there was a risk of things going off at half-cock. We conducted an extremely painstaking long-term joint investigation including surveillance."
The two soldiers were detained in Bulford, Wiltshire and in Preston, Lancashire and belonged to elite regiments -- the Parachute Regiment and the King's Regiment. Army spokesmen told the media that at least twelve further military personnel in Regular and Territorial Army units were under surveillance and would be questioned shortly. There would be 'no place for racists to hide in the British Army,' said a spokesman.

NOTE
(derived from Paul Johnson's A History of the Modern World, 1983, pp. 301-4):

Macpherson Report

Chris Brand's suggestion that, if London's Metropolitan Police Force is properly described as institutionally racist, then "a Black African London community that accounts for 80% of muggings in London….might thus itself be described as institutionally criminal" (McDNL 23 ii '99) has been condemned by both the Scottish National Party and a Scottish civil rights group. In the Psychology Department of the LUniversity of Edinburgh, however, there is silence: the Record can find no-one amongst two dozen taxpayer-funded academics who has the guts to speak openly about IQ, race, eugenics, feminism, paedophilia, Arthur Koestler, the Macpherson Report or anything else for that matter. Brand has challenged any E.LU. psychologist who disagrees with him to a public discussion (so long as reasonable security is paid for by the Daily Record -- which is currently preparing to fund a trial of the Eltham Five in London).

{The SNP and British 'civil liberties' groups were the very first to applaud the withdrawal of The g Factor by Wiley DePublisher in April, 1996 (see TgF NewsLetters at http://webcom.com/zurcher/thegfactor/archive). Censorship from New York is preferred by these groups to letting British people read a book and make up their own minds.}

{Brand was interviewed on Friday, but the Daily Record for 8 iii '99 was preoccupied with gleeful recording of the arrest of alleged members of 'Combat 18'.}

Arthur Koestler

KOESTLER'S "EPIC COURAGE" DEFENDED -- THOUGH NOT BY THE UNIVERSITY THAT HAS TAKEN HIS MONEY

Edinburgh LUniversity has found itself unable to issue a single word in favour of its half-a-million-pound-sterling benefactor, Arthur Koestler. Others, however, have come forward to the Times Literary Supplement (22 i '99 and 5 iii '99) and the Sunday Times (News Review, 28 ii '99; Letters 7 iii '99, 'Koestler Legacy Obscured by Row') and made interesting points about Koestler as follows below.
[TLS carried no letters of criticism -- and thus not a shred of evidence for the charge of "serial rapism" against any of the scores of girls provided for the volatile but charming Hungarian by London's literary lion of the 1950's, Cyril Connolly. Nor has Koestler's biographer, David Cesarini [Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Southampton], made any further contribution -- except to apologize profusely for having mixed up two of Koestler's women (Celia and Cynthia) no less than five times in his book and to emphasize his high regard for Koestler as "inspirational" and "brave."]

Points from Lord Kennet and Elizabeth Young; 100, Bayswater Road; London WC2.

The parallels between the lives of Koestler and William McDougall are thus intriguing. In both cases, great independence of mind and courage yielded a life dedicated to resisting coarse materialism while declining the comforts of theology. Unappreciated by their own generation, both McDougall and Koestler turned to parapsychology to see if it could deliver relevant evidence -- though both remained no more than sceptically optimistic about its findings of their day. Both were lucky enough to enjoy wonderful wives -- in Koestler's case, several of them.

George Orwell's comment on Shakespeare (in 'Benefit of clergy: some notes on Salvador Dali') should have been a reminder to Edinburgh LUniversity to stand by what should have been stood by in its benefactor:

The recent death of London-born White soul music superstar Dusty Springfield OBE (1939-1999) provides another reminder of this point. Born into an unhappy family of a Catholic tax consultant where her older brother was the mother's 'blue-eyed boy', the shy and myopic convent girl from Ealing found fame with her croakily erotic voice that led on to a life of booze, cocaine and lesbianism. Retreating from the media, she became the icon of gays in Los Angeles and said her brain had been well and truly "scrambled" by the time she lost her battle with breast cancer. Hardly very admirable! -- Nor were the beehive hairdo and the panda eyes -- though they were original when she first thought of them. Yet none who heard them will ever forget
I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME and
SON OF A PREACHER MAN.

Even little g itself does not yield genius on its own. There has to be specialization that takes a person into uncharted territory -- personal kinks and quirks like whatever were those of Shakespeare when he dedicated his Venus and Adonis to the Earl of Southampton in 1593-4 along with a public declaration of his unending "love" (Katharine Duncan-Jones, Times Literary Supplement 5 ii '99 -- celebrating the lovely, generous and tear-jerking new film, 'Shakespeare in Love' [McDNL 26 i '99]). Whence could Shakespeare's articulation of human individuality, personal agony and the triumphs, tragedies and delightful comedies of love have sprung except from a personality that mixed realism and idealism in full and equal measures and sometimes impulses?

From his student beginnings, Arthur Koestler rejected any full-blown materialistic determinism with the same outrage as had William McDougall. Despite the attractions to him of communism and Zionism, Koestler knew that individuality counted; and British prisoners are to this day the beneficiaries of his principle that no life of a citizen should be snuffed out by the state without seeing what education and artistic encouragement could do. It is a scandal that men in British prison cells without toilets should feel more appreciation for Koestler than does the American who enjoys all the perquisites of the Koestler Chair at Edinburgh. -- Funnily enough, Koestler's own first act of youthful rebellion, in Vienna, was to leave university without a degree.

{The NewsLetter regrets to announce the death of another great British individualist, the memorable High Court judge, Lord Denning (1899-1999). Denning was famous for unfailingly championing the rights of the individual, 'the small man', against the state, and he became Master of the Rolls under Mrs Thatcher. He was also a realist: in 1982 he 'provoked controversy' by observing that some Black people were not suitable to be jurors.}

{The Scottish individualist, Robert Sinclair, is on the loose again (Times 4 iii '99). Bailed to appear for sentence after twenty years as a rural hermit and survivalist (McDNL 16 ii '99, 'Western Criminal Justice'), Sinclair made a single appearance with the friends to whom he had been consigned by a judge, told them "That's me awa' the noo", and vanished into the Stirlingshire outback with police in puffing pursuit.}

{'Ferret down every rabbit hole' was perhaps not the most judicious of analogies while Koestler stands accused of 'serial rapism' -- but it was well meant….}

Africa Realism

GENOCIDE GENIUSES
TURN ON GORILLA-LOVING WESTERNERS

The news that the British police are likely to be negrified by the Reverend Tony Blair in line with ethnic quotas was greeted with scant appreciation by Black Africans. Hutu tribesmen of northern Rwanda (already guilty of massive and repeated genocide, at the rate of killing 37,500 per day of their noble Tutsi neighbours) carefully selected sixteen US and UK searchers for gorillas-in-the-mist in Uganda and hacked eight of them to death with machetes after raping one of the women campers at Bwindi Park [i.e. Impenetrable Forest]. The procedure was the same as that of the infamous Nazi 'death marches.' It was the captives who 'fell behind' on the march who elicited the wrath of their persecutors; those who kept up with the officer-class captors and kept smiling were finally released -- only to find the bodies of their fellow campers as they made their way back through the jungle.
Whether there was a primarily 'racist' motive for the killing of Black Stephen Lawrence in London remains in some doubt {see NL below}; but the Hutu thugs, drawn from the 'Interahamwe' forces fighting in the Congo, left straightforwardly anti-Americanglish labels on the bodies of their victims.
Uganda, which has been enjoying 10,000 Western tourists annually, gave hot pursuit and claimed to have killed 15 of the 150-strong Hutu raiding party as it fled.

NOTES:
    The war in the Congo pits Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe on the side of the embattled government of president Laurent Kabila [see McDNL 18 viii '99: Kabila calls for slaughter of Tutsis] against a rebel group supported by Rwanda [now back in Tutsi hands] and Uganda.
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) is a mess ooops mass of more than 2 million square kilometres. Mineral resources -- copper, cobalt, diamonds and gold -- make it arguably Africa's richest nation in terms of natural resources.
    The Hutu have little serious leadership against what they call 'the Nilotic cockroaches', i.e. the Tutsi. Prior to the 1994 genocide, the traditionally French-backed Hutu killed virtually all of their own moderates, bludgeoning teachers, doctors and nurses to death in Kigali with the same enthusiasm that they applied to despatching Tutsi. Of the latter, they killed 12.6% in just 3 months -- far exceeding the Nazi rate of genocide in the 1940's. Rates of killing of 50 per minute were sustained by the Hutu for long periods. Hutu consider Tutsis 'evil', 'clever', 'well-off' and 'foreign.' For the year 2000, the Hutus are planning 'Operation Insecticide.'

Eugenics

"Egg Donor Needed," ran recent advertisements in student newspapers at top US universities. They added "Large Financial Incentive." The advertisements called for a 5'10" and athletic woman who had scored at least 1400 on her Scholastic Achievement Test and who had no major family medical problems. In return for providing eggs, she would receive $US50,000. Already, more than 200 women have responded to what is believed to be the largest amount of money ever offered for a woman's eggs. A lady 'geneticist' from the University of Minnesota appeared on TV to imply that the breeding experiment would have insufficient chance of success.
Egg donation is popular with career women who have left having a family till late in life then run into unexpected problems. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that egg donation was used more than 5,000 times in 1996, jumping more than 50 percent in a single year. The number of clinics offering the technique has grown from one in 1986 to 227 a decade later. So powerful is maternal drive that women can quite ignore the fact that a baby via egg donation and in vitro fertilization is not genetically their own -- though it will be their husband's. One woman who had used another woman's eggs said: "I kept thinking, it can't be my genes, but at least I can control other things," she said, listing the issues she worried about with adoption, including prenatal exposure to alcohol. "Genes were a big deal," she said. But now, when she looks at 20-month-old Charlie, a chubby-cheeked, happy, strawberry blond boy, all she can think is, "he's really cute." Clinics have been careful not to portray the donation as a sale, and the fee has been described as compensation for time lost to travel and medical appointments. Now, that compensation has skyrocketed in isolated cases up to $US50,000.

Monicavision

I just learned that Monica's mother had an affair with Pavorotti, and then tried to sell her story!! These people are the scum of the earth, and that little tramp Monica was planning the whole thing in advance with her mother. Jeez!!

In London's Harrods store, Monica was suddenly taken poorly during her signing and had to be ushered off in tears by minders. However, she returned to her fans after 20 minutes. Apparently Monica has taken to bungee-jumping off bridges in California -- so she's added 'bouncing back' to her more familiar gifts.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California (CNN) -- A Black man, Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police drew international outrage in 1991, has been charged with misdemeanours of domestic abuse and vandalism. Since 1991, King has had various run-ins with the law. He served a 90-day sentence for misdemeanour domestic violence in 1997.

EDINBURGH -- Responding promptly to recent demands in Yukay for anti-racist policing, Edinburgh's Lothian Police Force presented itself at McDNL HQ. Yes, the police had received complaints. About the NewsLetter? No: Brand had sometimes put his thumb to his nose and waggled his fingers at psychologists in the street. Who had complained of being put in fear by such antics? Why, two of the elderly American postgrads in Psychology who had been keen to give 'evidence' of Brand's insensitivity to feminazies at the 1997 E.LU. Tribunal. Yes, Britain is now a state where the police -- or at least Lothian's marginal Sergeant Mundorolla and a constabulary colleague -- have been called off investigating muggings and set to ensure that PC acolytes never have their dignities dented. {At least there may be some respite for paedophiles. -- Ed.}

EDINBURGH -- A blaze in the LUniversity's Medical School, Teviot Row, required eight fire engines and sixty firemen before it was extinguished. The fire resulted from the late-evening use of a Bunsen burner by a Spanish technician working with highly flammable material. Damage to the listed building will cost £UK500,000 to repair.

LONDON (BBCR4UK 7 iii '99, 08:00) -- A fifteen year old youth of mixed race has been charged by police with defacing the engraved stone that has served as a memorial to murdered Black teenager Stephen Lawrence. White paint had been splattered on the stone in the aftermath of the release in February of the Macpherson Report which blamed White youths for the 1993 killing. It had been widely assumed that vandalism had been the work of White racists.

TRENTON, NJ (AP) -- Two weeks ago, Governor Christie Whitman stood firmly behind New Jersey's top cop when a black ministers' group demanded the policeman's resignation, citing a racial profiling controversy. However, State Police Superintendent Col. Carl A. Williams Jr. was quoted in the Star-Ledger of Newark as saying that minorities were more likely to be involved in drug crimes; so Whitman swiftly fired him. "His views are dastardly, his thoughts are ill and sick, and he's unfit to hold such a critical, important office that protects,'' said New Jersey Assemblyman LeRoy D. Jones. "He's a racist of the worst kind because he doesn't even know it.'' Williams, 58, who rose through the ranks in a 35-year State Police career, did not comment publicly on his dismissal. He had been under fire for weeks over charges that state troopers had unfairly targeted black drivers on state highways.

LONDON -- In Chingford, east London, arson at a three-storey family home killed seven members of a four-generation family, including three children, two of them twins. A jerry can of petrol had been emptied through a letter box into the small end-of-the-block council home and only a grandfather escaped the blaze, down a neighbour's ladder. For three days, the media gave no hint of possible motivation. The family's names (surname Day) sound White; and any idea that they were police informants in the Lawrence affair needs balancing by appreciation that arson is a common way of exacting revenge among Britoids. A neighbour said (Sunday Times 7 iii '99): "You never get to find out who or what caused it." {No one in Britain can afford to go to law unless they are (i) criminal (ii) pretty poor or (iii) very rich.}

YALE UNIVERSITY -- Under a new plan, departments will receive extra resources exclusively for the purpose of hiring female professors. President Richard Levin's plan to diversify Yale's faculty is a triumph for student activists. As usual in modern academia, no department is thought likely to spurn the new funding.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The Canadian high commissioner was recently battered by a robber. South Africa is also sending some of its criminals overseas: Ramesh Vassen the consul-general to India was found guilty of misappropriating trust money while attorney and had to resign his posting.

HUMANSDORP, South Africa, March 3 (AFP) -- A woman said to be as old as 114 years died after she was raped by 29-year-old man in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. A police spokesperson said it appeared Dina Busaka knew her assailant and had been alone with him in her home. The two were apparently sitting in the lounge when the man raped and throttled the woman. .…The country's Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, said at a church service at the weekend that the country was facing a moral crisis. He said: "Grandchildren rape their grandmothers. Children take their pensioned parents' money and drink themselves to death."

NEW ORLEANS -- The protest over a Westminster, California, store owner's display of the Vietnamese flag and picture of Ho Chi Minh has spread to other cities. About 100 Vietnamese Americans marched to New Orleans' city hall and burned a communist flag

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) -- Jury selection began in the trial of two men federal prosecutors allege waged a deadly campaign of murder and mayhem in their bid to create a "racially pure,'' polygamous white nation in the Pacific Northwest.

LIVERPOOL -- A 28-year-old bus driver, Darren Vickers, is being accused of murdering an 8-year-old boy, Jamie Lavis. After Vickers had befriended the boy over a period of months, became a friend of the boy's family, and led the hunt for him when he disappeared -- giving up his job to do so -- the boy's dismembered remains were discovered by police.

DUBLIN (Reuters) -- 'Bob-a-Job', the classic fund-raising mainstay of the scouting movement, has been dropped in Ireland due to dwindling interest and increasing fears of child abuse, Irish scout leaders said Monday. Scouting Ireland's Chief Commissioner, Kiernan Gildea, said the changing nature of local communities had raised too many concerns about the idea of sending children door-to-door. {A 'bob' was slang for a shilling, or 5P, which in the 1950's bought as much chocolate or as many cigarettes as does one pound sterling today. Éire is notorious for the high level of religiosity and community spirit of its inhabitants, and for the latter's belief that any kind of sexual perversion would be an English invention.}

NEW YORK -- Joe DiMaggio, the legendary baseball player for the Bronx Bombers who was Marilyn Monroe's first husband in 1954 died aged 83. Sadly, Marilyn aborted his child, ditched him for 'mental cruelty' (= too much drinking while the pair toured Japan?) and, ignoring the fan mail of C.R.Brand (of East Barnet, Hertfordshire), 11, went on to marry playwright Arthur Miller and meet a sticky end. But Joe was devastated and kept up a wonderful supply of flowers for years afterwards. Good on yer, Joe! "A nation turns its eyes to you," as the Beatles sang. {Pictures of Marilyn adorn McDNL HQ walls, along with photos of Hans Eysenck, Sir Cyril Burt, Enoch Powell, Sir Keith Joseph, Maria Corrigan and Louise Brookes.}

LONDON -- Eros and Thanatos -- St George's Hospital is to treat a rapist by using Viagra. Apparently the rapist is so depressed that only a little sadism gets him going -- as characters in the Marquis de Sade's Juliette used to find. The move has provoked outrage etc.

LONDON -- This week, the censored Aberdeen food scientist Arpad Puszta (McDNL 16 ii '99) will discuss his findings about genetically modified potatoes with the House of Commons' Select Committee on Scientific Affairs. Puszta, who has three books to his name, will explain his resentment at being gagged and bundled into retirement from the Government-funded Rowett Institute. Apparently colleagues were told not to talk to him. Contrary to previous impressions, Puszta is in favour of genetically modified food -- so long as the proper research is undertaken.

ST ALBANS, Hertfordshire -- The director of the original film of 'Lolita' (1962), Stanley Kubrick, died in this bijou town at the weekend. Reclusive and 'obsessional', the Bronx-born hyper-imaginative and perfectionist top film director ('2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968), 'A Clockwork Orange'(1971)) who inspired both love and loathing (said the Daily Mail, referring to the lack of compassion which some detected in the films) died as he would have wished, working with McDNL's erotic starlet, Nicole Kidman (McDNL 6 x '98, "Phwoar!").

EDINBURGH -- After the trial of a male aromatherapist who was fined merely £UK400 for having 'indecently assaulted' a female patient, Scottish Office minister Henry McLeish is seizing the opportunity to restrict future court questioning of rape accusers by defendants. McLeish has told police he will also seek a ban on all muzzle-loading guns -- favoured by shooters since HMG's draconian post-Dunblane gun restrictions of 1997/8.

LONDON -- BBC TV's top programme for news analysis, 'Panorama' will this week expose a big rise in sexual excesses and pregnancies among Britain's 12-15-year-old girls. It remains to be seen whether an option on paedophilia for the youngsters will figure among the proposed solutions.

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny's Report
on the Lawrence Affair

…..In everything to do with Mr and Mrs Lawrence, too, the all-seeing Sir William finds the unwitting racism he seeks. The evidence of any policeman who annoyed them in any way is always considered unacceptable, "it grated on our ears". A great many things upset the Lawrences. They complained when they were visited and complained when they were not. They said that they had not been spoken to in the hospital by a policeman when they had. They considered that a question about a hat and gloves found at the scene implied that Stephen had been some sort of criminal. They early on received a friendly letter from the officer at one time in charge of the case, but told the inquiry that they had not received it.

……Sir William is very fierce with the police officers in charge of the family liaison with the Lawrences, so much so that he sometimes becomes self-contradictory. At one point he attacks the liaison officers for persisting: "It is all very well saying that one must not give up trying to achieve success, but where family liaison is concerned it seems hopeless to continue if there is plain and obvious mistrust from the start." Yet elsewhere he says that it is "wholly incumbent on the police to make sure that family liaison is sympathetic and satisfactory, whatever the circumstances". It is never indicated how this could be done in the face of almost complete hostility. But that hostility is taken as proof in itself of police insensitivity and institutional racism. A typical sentence (about the hat and gloves) says: ". . . the fact that Mr and Mrs Lawrence's perception was that this was so must demonstrate that the matter was not dealt with properly and as sensitively as it should have been." Every contradictory statement or change of mind or complaint by the Lawrences is seen as "wholly understandable".
Surely there is a partial absence of human understanding here. The Lawrences did indeed require the most considerate possible treatment, but the problem the police faced was that the poor parents' grief was unassuageable, and so they felt the need to blame someone for what had happened. This is, to use Sir William's words, wholly understandable. But it makes the police's position absolutely impossible: they were damned whatever they did. Had he been a merciful judge, Sir William would have found a way of making this clear.

I think I have said enough to show that Sir William and his team have not been merciful, or intellectually honest, much less fair. They have decided to take all the complication and pain of a horrible and unsolved murder and lay the whole thing at the door of the men and women who tried unsuccessfully to solve it. That would be bad enough, but Sir William does much worse. He imposes on his victims, the police, a concept of racism that makes them guilty whatever they do. That is a concept new to the English law under which we all want to live in freedom and peace. It is contemptible that someone versed in that law should have done such a thing. By doing so, he disqualifies his report from the respect that such documents should deserve and inflames the racial feelings he professes to deplore.

More Maclunacy

High-PC Canada is used to having its freedoms restricted
for the sake of its own 'Anti-Racist' bureaucracy; but the
Macpherson Report fairly took even Canada's breath away.

How far will we go to fight racism? Here in Canada, we've imposed strict limits upon freedom of speech and of the press in the name of racial equality. The Americans have accepted an all-pervasive system of racial quotas in employment and education. But it is the British who now seem on the verge of taking the ultimate step: they are on the verge of making racist thoughts a legal offense.
      Britain's evolution toward the policing of the contents of people's minds began six years ago, on April 22, 1993. At 10.30 that evening, Stephen Lawrence, the eighteen-year-old son of Jamaican immigrant parents, was waiting with his friend Duwayne Brooks for a bus in a working-class district of southeast London. They were spotted and attacked, unprovoked, by a gang of five white hoodlums. Both ran: Brooks escaped; Stephen Lawrence was fatally stabbed. A public prosecution led nowhere; a private prosecution by the family in 1996 ended in the acquittal of three of the suspects.
      Who is to blame for this failure of justice? There was only one witness to the crime, Duwayne Brooks. He was unable to identify the faces of any of the attackers. His mood was "very agitated," "highly excitable," "virtually uncontrollable" according to a policewomen who arrived on the scene. His first words to her were, "Who called you f---ing c---s anyway, pigs . . . I only called the f---ing ambulance." Three weeks after the assault, Brooks would be arrested for criminal mischief. The case against Stephen Lawrence's killers depended on the testimony of a highly unreliable witness unable to positively identify his attackers.
      Stephen Lawrence's family decided, however, that the blame attached to the police force, which they immediately and loudly accused of corruption, incompetence and racism. Their anger is understandable: suffering a terrible grief, with no hope of seeing their son's murderers brought to justice, they ignited a political controversy that led the newly elected Blair government to appoint a special inquiry in July 1997, under the chairmanship of Sir William Macpherson, a retired High Court judge. Sir William delivered his report on Feb. 25. The report is often turgid, but its 70 recommendations add up to a coherent whole: in order to fight racism, much of the British tradition of personal liberty must be junked.
      The report reluctantly concludes that the accusations flung about by the grieving and angry Lawrence family were in fact unfounded. There was no corruption. The Lawrences were treated with respect and courtesy. The slights the Lawrences complained were in almost every case misperceptions: Mrs. Lawrence, for instance, charged that when she handed over a piece of paper with the names of her suspects on it, the police inspector crumpled it into a ball. In fact, the inspector folded it up neatly.
      Nevertheless, says the report, the handling of the Lawrence case proves that the British government is gripped by institutional racism. And strong, even "radical," means are needed to root that racism out. Sir William's idea of an appropriately radical measure was inspired by a videotape taken of four of the Lawrence suspects in 1994, that caught them expressing hatred for blacks in graphic, violent language. The video does not prove their guilt in any legal sense, but it seems to have convinced Sir William Macpherson, and prompted him to propose that the courts be permitted to resume "prosecution after acquittal where fresh and viable evidence is presented."
      The Macpherson report does not propose abolishing the ancient ban on double jeopardy in all criminal cases: only in racial hate crimes. But as bursts of radicalism go, that's just an appetizer. The truly imaginative ideas are contained in recommendations 12, 13 and 39. (You can read the recommendations for yourself in Chapter 47 of the report, which is reproduced at the Telegraph's website, www.telegraph.co.uk.) Recommendation 12 would define as a "racial incident" any incident which is perceived to be racist either by the victim or by any other person. Recommendation 13 would require the police to investigate the incident whether the complained-of behavior was criminal or not. Recommendation 39 would extend the definition of "behavior" to cover the use of racist > language -- in private as well as in public. Taken together, they would make it possible for anyone in Britain to launch an investigation of anyone else for words uttered in the privacy of his own home. There's a word for that kind of regime: it's totalitarian.
      But it's also the logical culmination of the trend of anti-discrimination law since 1970. We long ago became impatient with the modest goal of equal treatment for all citizens. We wanted to suppress not merely discrimination, but racial prejudice. But while discrimination is encoded into laws and public policies, prejudice is contained in the minds of individual people. If the law is to root prejudice out, the law must find some way into the citizen's mind -- and must arrogate the power to punish the citizen if it finds anything there it doesn't like.
      I don't think Tony Blair will actually adopt Sir William Macpherson's recommendations. Not this year anyway. But they express the trend of the age. You will be hearing them again. And next time, it may not be in Britain: it may be right here at home.

A Word in Sir William's Ear -- from Australia

A top McDNL correspondent from Down Under is most percipient about Sir William Macpherson's definition of institutional racism as:

She writes, reminding us of the happy style of dialogue that has been developed in The Workers' Paradise:

As if an ex-paratrooper or an ex-anything writes this sort of crap! It's straight out of Sociology I. It's pure government-as-therapy-for-victims PC drivel. Why don't you challenge some linguists to prove that no sane adult speaks or writes such un-English garbage? Grrr.

So where did the definition of 'institutional racism' come from?
Stand up Simon Holdaway, Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield [in the UK's reddest area -- devoted to the immortal memory of mining union leader King Arthur Scargill who was so grievously brought low by the Maggon]! According to Times Higher (5 iii '99), Simon wrote the report for the Campaign for Racial Equality that was sent by government officials to Sir William Macluny to let him have the benefit of modern knowledge. Sanctimonious Simon [race unknown] is delighted with his effort. Says he: "I hope the Lawrence case will help the thinking about all institutions, including universities."

{Certainly, British universities will be wide open to anti-racist hysteria. At present, only six per cent of British academics are non-White, and half of these staff are on short-term contracts and often merely sojourning in Britain temporarily before resuming careers overseas. Moreover, any strict, Scarman-style definition of 'institutional racism' was abandoned long ago. In the latest Times Higher, an article titled 'The colour blind spot' makes clear the beliefs of British academics -- apparently unopposed by any of their number -- that 'institutional racism' can be just a disagreeable 'assumption' about a university's goals or methods, and an 'unwitting' assumption at that! One Black woman professor of English at Middlesex University, Lola Young, maintained that the intrinsic racism of British society was shown in everything from 'racially motivated murders'{no example provided} to the way in which elderly women would move their handbags if the professor sat near them on a bus. The Anti-Nazi League will surely be able use such 'useful idiots' -- as Lenin called fellow travellers -- for its own power-hungry purposes.}

The g factor -- the psychotelic* question

'Linda Gottfredson (Intelligence i/ii '97) notes that Army tests of general cognitive ability show a .63 correlation with core technical proficiency and .65 with general soldiering. Granted, character is also important; but it is by no means sufficient. Among low IQ recruits (recall the minimum IQ for Army entry is 85) even extra instruction "fails to improve general skills..."
Studies of the Australian military indicate that a 1 SD rise on the Army General Classification Test (highly g-loaded) was associated with a 16% decrease in mortality rate. (This was non-combat and primarily accident-related.) I also read recently that "tank kills" in training also shows a strong correlation with IQ scores.'

* The four main groups of questions about any psychological dimension are: psychometric [tests] , psychological/physiological [bases], psychogenetic[origins] and psychotelic [functions]. -- See Preface to The g Factor, Wiley DePublisher, 1996.

Nature versus Nurture

'ENVIRONMENT' A THREE-WAYS LOSER

According to the modern great-and-good around the behavioural sciences, there is simply no contest between 'nature' and 'nurture.' Only twerps like Darwin and Galton would ever have thought relatively large influences of genetic factors could be shown from evidence. Rather, everything is a complex interaction effect which will require decades more effort by well-meaning pinko biologists before anyone knows the answer. Thus Edinburgh LUniversity emeritus professor of genetics, Geoffrey Beale, has been known to say it's not even known (100 years after Mendel) whether human height differences are largely heritable! Meantime the state should forbid all eugenic efforts except those which are graciously allowed by panels of tenured Marxists who will look after the interests of the working class and minorities.
Fortunately, Judith Rich Harris won't put up with this genetobabble. Here she is defending her recent book (The Nurture Assumption -- see McDNLs 22 ix '98 and 10 xi '98) against the arch-interactionist 'man of moderation', Sir Michael Rutter of the Maudsley Hospital. (Sir Michael took thirty years to realize that autism was a substantially genetic condition.)

{PS Louis Andrews writes: "One point about Harris' important book that has seemingly eluded readers is that her point about the power of peer groups is not new at all, but has merely been ignored by those who have pushed other unsuccessful environmental methods of improving scholarship. One of the most important findings of the On the Equality of Education Coleman study and report (1965-66) was that peer group was the only variable tested that had any significant impact on student achievement."}

{For more re the unimportance of 'shared environment', see Gavan Tredoux, below.}

Another way of making cooey noises about non-genetic effects has been to talk of 'memes.' Conjured up by Richard Dawkins in 1976 and applauded and adopted by E.O.Wilson and J. Lumsden a decade ago, 'memes' are meant to be cultural units that are selected upon and sometimes transmitted through generations. Fashions, jokes and words would all be examples of 'memes'.
Yet what is a meme? Biological evolution is dependent on genetic selection, and degrees of genetic similarity can be studied (e.g. in MZ twins) to see whether they yield phenotypic similarity. But where are the equivalent operations of memes to be identified and studied? Plainly, habits, ideas and vocabulary are all transmitted across generations to varying degrees. As William McDougall explained (1920, The Group Mind), and as Karl Popper later elaborated (as his 'World 3'), there are aspects of human mentality and knowledge that go beyond the individual mind. But what contribution is to be made by memes in understanding such phenomena? By all means, pop psychologist Nickerless Humphreys [once taking money for parapsychology research in Cambridge, but now probably wanking ooops working at the New School for Social Research in New York] is an enthusiast for memes. But it is not just dour lefties like Stephen Gould and Steven Rose who see no point in memes: England's star evolutionary philosopher, Mary Midgley, has also come out against them -- "Memes are a useless notion," she currently declares. The citation indices agree. A physicist calculated for Times Higher, using the BIDS retrieval system, that in 1998 the term 'gene' received 59,057 mentions in new work, the remote planet Jupiter received 305, and the term 'meme' had fewer than 20 mentions -- not much of a record after 23 years.

Also backing Judith Harris, surprisingly, is top academic psychologist Jerome Kagan (1998, Three Seductive Ideas in Psychology, Harvard University Press -- a McDNL 1998 Christmas Gift recommendation, 15 xii '98). Writes Kagan: 'No scientific work has demonstrated that particular experiences are crucial. …Plenty of happy children come from Serbian homes. I suspect that most of the men in Rwanda who committed those terrible atrocities had loving parents during their childhood years.'

Sadly, Kagan -- who also does a merry job saying people are hedonists, not moralists -- is not so London School-ish about the main dimensions of human psychological variation themselves. He dislikes 'psychological abstractions such as 'general intelligence', 'neuroticism' and 'emotionality'. On such matters, he claims to side with Herder, Vico, Franz Boas and Walter Mischel in doubting any basic personological realities and preferring to think of people's selves as socially constructed interaction effects. Kagan quotes Donald Campbell approvingly: "higher-order interactions are the rule [in psychology] and main effects, ceteribus paribus generalizations, the rare exception." In all this, Kagan neglects that Campbell's knowledge was principally of the bizarre experiments of the 1960's 'social psychology' laboratory and reveals his ignorance of the 'idiographic vs. nomothetic' (II) and 'dimensions' (III) sections of PERSONALITY, BIOLOGY & SOCIETY . Strangely, while Kagan purports to abjure the London School's dimensions of personality, he is quite happy to talk of people differing lastingly in 'anxiety.'

Reverse Racism

Population & Development Review 23, Garrett Hardin [University of California; Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology; Santa Barbara, CA], reviewing Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Asking whether today's observable differences in the competencies of Aboriginal Australians and Europeans are due to real differences between the peoples themselves, [Jared] Diamond takes a firm stand (p. 19):

….like so many moderns who indignantly reject ethnocentrism, [Diamond] embraces what we can only call ethnofugalism, an obsessive flight from the center of one's inherited culture. Paradoxically, such ethnofugalism has become the ethnocentrism of a minority now called the elite." (Early in the present century Edwin Arlington Robinson wittily satirized this attitude in his poem, 'Miniver Cheevy.'*)

* 'Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn / Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; / He wept that he was ever born, / And he had reasons." -- That's to say, Miniver Cheevy [me-never-achieve] was a 'culture' snob who "cursed the commonplace" and wished himself born elsewhere than Robinson's America (of 1869-1935). 'Miniver' liked the mediaeval Medicis; but he scorned to make the money he would need to live like them, so just "kept on drinking."

{Astonishingly, it does not occur to Diamond to offer the slightest evidence for his assertion about Austranesian mental superiority. Diamond has not even heard of the possibility of looking at inspection times (ITs, i.e. mental speed of intake -- see The g Factor, Wiley DePublisher, Chapter 2). Apparently, the 85 years of mental testing that have provided evidence of lower Black levels of g need never have been undertaken. As far as Diamond is concerned, White psychologists might as well have asserted higher White intelligence on the basis of the West's cars, concertos and constitutions -- and left it at that.}

Howard Gardner's elementary Atlantic Monthly article on intelligence (critiqued in McDNL 23 ii '99) is available on the Net at http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99feb/intel.htm. Howard Gardner teaches human development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among his books are Multiple Intelligences (1993), Extraordinary Minds (1997), and The Disciplined Mind, to be published this spring. Further coverage of Gardner's multiplistic and environmentaloony ideas can be found in McDNL 10 xi '98:
"POTTY PROF 'PROVES' EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENT -- 'Hammering babies can hurt them,' reveals Howard Gardner in a stroke of genius."

Philosophy Corner

In the USA, Vice-President Al Gore fancies himself both for President and as a philosopher manqué who has seen the light. Gore has also turned out in a new publication of his Thoughts to be an eco-nut with little faith in the rationality or initiative of individuals. Writing in National Review iii '99, Adam Wolfson, executive editor of The Public Interest, is not impressed.

Reform Conservatism

Britain's Conservative leader, William Hague, on the brink of extinction from the efforts of voters and his own Europhiles, has had himself photographed enjoying an embrace from a smartly dressed Black lady, c. 35, called Boulaye, who wishes to become a Conservative MP. Meanwhile, other female Tory candidates have complained to the media about how their applications were treated by largely-male selection panels. One, a model, was asked if she had ever been photographed nude. On replying 'No', the reply was 'What a pity!' Another was told voters would 'take fright' at her high academic qualifications; another was told that her two children would mean she was 'too busy'; and another was advised {Quite correctly! -- Ed.} it was a mistake to wear yellow shoes.

{While Conservatism is dying, there is still no Liberal revival in Britain. Mr Blair does not need more votes, so will not give the Liberals proportional representation. And, in Scotland, Labour is forecast to be able to hold the forthcoming Scottish mini-Parliament against the Scot Nats without the help of the Liberals being necessary. When Liberals will become neoliberals and thus the main opposition to Labour remains to be seen.}

Afro-Americanism

This America

A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis. By the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.

Euroland

Former UK Foreign Secretary Dr David Owen has declared
himself a neoeuropean (McDNL 2 iii '99).

A laboratory scientist proudly waves his test tube. "Here is a genetically modified soya bean that is anti-single currency but pro-Europe."

This England

Towards his 100^th year, England's favourite judge, Lord Denning {see above} was being ushered up the aisle of Salisbury Cathedral to give the sermon one Sunday. The Master of the Rolls was advised by the verger, "You'll have to speak up, m' Lord. The agnostics in this place are really terrible."

Jewish Studies News

Genetic analysis has shown that a 70,000 strong Black tribe, the Lemba, whose members are distributed across south-east Africa is seriously Semitic. In particular, analysis of Y-chromosome data has focused on the Buba, who make up the Lemba tribe's elite. The Buba have the same unique genetic combinations that are possessed with any frequency only by members of the Jews' priestly family, the Cohens.
The work of genetic analysis was carried out in London at the request of Dr Tudor Parfitt whose book, Journey to a Vanished City is expected soon from Phoenix (£UK8-00).
The Lemba have many Jewish customs, including refusal of pork, insistence on kosher meat, the circumcision of male infants, and a ban on marriage outwith the tribe. Although Jewish sea traders might have played a role in the foundation of the Lemba, it is thought more likely that the tribe originated among Jews living in Saudi Arabia.

Among several articles on modern Jewish history in the TLS, one has considered the question of whether the Allies did less than they might have to publicize (and thus produce world-wide frenzy about) the Holocaust. -- Thanks to ENIGMA decoding of German telecommunications, British intelligence had good evidence of the Holocaust by September 1941, soon after Hitler had begun Operation Barabarossa against the USSR.
On the one hand, some think Holocaust publicization might have drawn new allies into the war. On the other hand, Churchill and his advisors may not have wanted to be thought to accept Goebbels repeated insistence that the war was one of Germany versus Jewry; and they were always properly cautious about any public use of information from ENIGMA for fear of giving away the precious military advantage that Britain enjoyed.
Anyhow, it now turns out that BBC announcement of the Holocaust was not delayed as long as it has been usual to think. It was as early as June 1942 that the European Service of the BBC first carried the news that 700,000 Jewish civilians and resistance fighters had been killed hors de combat during the German occupation of Poland.

A widely held idea among American Blacks is that the Jews can be blamed for their troubles. Quite apart from the fact that any US Black should count himself lucky that his ancestor was taken across the Pond, this home-grown anti-Semitism has as little foundation as its stock European counterparts. Although Jews have always been over-represented in commerce between states -- hardly surprising, when no Christian nation would give them much a position within society -- Jews were otherwise no more involved than were Christians in funding or running slave ships; and only 2% of the eventual owners and keepers of slaves were Jewish. (The matter is further spelled out in Eli Faber's new book, Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade, New York University Press.)

When Monica's Story (St. Martin's, 288 pages, $US24.95) was first announced, there were those who doubted whether its author, the former British Court correspondent Andrew Morton, could make the transition from a stuffy, class-bound culture where you have to drop to one knee before the head of state to a more relaxed, democratic milieu where you have to drop to both knees before the head of state.
The doubters were right. Morton has left to the Starr Report all the dirty bits about how Monica coped with the tattooed and left-skewed Presidential organ. Instead, Morton focuses on the romantic moments when Monica could see -- as she was ushered out from the royal presence -- how the busy President really cared about Bosnia and the tea-towelled Mr Arafat. Morton's hagiography has Prosecutore Kennetth Starr as 'The Wicked Witch of the West' and Monica as 'Dorothy'; but it is never convincing in making Monica out to be a victim -- let alone in pretending that what happened to Monica could have happened to any American girl (as if many American girls give head before their favoured man shows any sign of knowing their names and bank codes). Missing is any recognition of Monica's special interest in sex. Even Monica's 1996 abortion is rapidly passed over in a couple of paragraphs.
What will engage psychologists especially, despite Morton's modesty, is the revelation of a successful modern American family where Mrs Lewinsky managed to win the Electra competition by focussing her daughter's attention on married men other than her own husband. While Mr Lewinsky remains an aloof figure in Monica's life, Mrs Lewinsky was busy arranging every service a girl would need -- analysts, counsellors, dieticians, aromatherapist etc. -- as Monica embarked on a Washington career where only one of her liaisons would be with an unmarried man. With true devotion to duty, Monica actually became a trainee sex therapist. At Lewis and Clark University, she was a teaching assistant in "The Psychology of Sex," "where students explored the relationship between sexuality, individualism and society"; and she was apparently "profoundly affected" by a course on "The Social Construction of Madness." Hilariously, Monica even gave the President a book from this course called "Disease and Misrepresentation" -- a good title for a book about the failure of political conservatives in the 1990's. Still, as Monica came to Edinburgh's Princes Street where 400 people waited for her to sign copies of Morton's book, it looked from her jewellery, limo and bodyguards as if she was a representative of a highly functional family. Whether she can yet achieve her ambition to be the second Mrs Bill Clinton in 2001 remains to be seen.

Maclunacy Latest

Asked to explain the remarkable proposals of Britain's Macpherson Report on racist thought crime, the chief sidekick of Sir William Macluny explained everything on the radio. The Report had not asked for criminalization of dinner table conversation nor for repeat prosecution until conviction was achieved. No, the Report had only suggested that consideration should be given to thus removing elementary human rights. {So that was all right, then! -- Ed.}
What about the idea that any incident should be considered racist if anybody said so? Well, advised the Macluny sidekick, that had been a standard police regulation for a decade: it was just that the police had not noticed, or perhaps forgotten.
{The country will just have to rely on Emperor Blair to protect it from Macluny, as envisaged in this NewsLetter. Fortunately, His Imperial Highness and his Home Secretary Jack Straw now seem to have forgotten the Macpherson Report in their delight at Mr Schroeder ('Herr Blair') getting rid of 'Red Oscar' Lafontaine and thus staying on the agreed neosocialist course of the Third Way [Neue Mitte]. -- "Ve Hev Veys Off Meykink You Valk!" rejoiced the Sun.}

The UK Government's Office of Standards in Education (OFSTED) has condemned Britain's schools as suffering the dread disease of "institutional racism" -- lately diagnosed to popular acclaim in Britain's police, and detected by police in the Army. OFSTED concludes that many English schools are guilty of "unwitting institutional racism", i.e. they allow ethnic minority pupils to under-achieve.
However, the boss of OFSTED, Chris Woodhead, said that the problems were those of poor performance by Pakistani and Bangladeshi children in primary school {due to cultural and language handicaps deriving from their homes} and poor performance by Black children in secondary school {by which time the Srindopakeshi handicap has worn off}. Defending against OFSTED's 'anti-racist' charges with more vigour than British police and army chiefs, Woodhead added that to call British teachers racists was a "dreadful slur."
{Mr Woodhead is in an embattled position and unable to control what emerges from his own organization. He himself deplores the sloppy terminology of 'institutional racism' and the extraordinary criticism of teachers -- who have long leaned over backwards to dumb down schools and teach the history of Benin and similar subjects to puzzled Pakistani youths. Many educationalists -- including those in universities -- are "desperate" to bring Woodhead down, says columnist Melanie Phillips (Sunday Times 14 iii '99). Rumours circulate continuously about Woodhead's affair with his pupil Amanda Johnston having begun during school hours -- Woodhead's ex-wife, Cathy, has been paid a considerable sum for this story. If Woodhead alters OFSTED reports to highlight one matter or another, his actions are promptly leaked to the press as showing anti-egalitarian bias. Thus Woodhead's position is effectively the same as that of Mrs Thatcher's Education Minister, Sir Keith Joseph, in the 1980's -- simply impossible, even though he has never gone so far as to advocate eugenics or fast track learning.}

The percent of British 16-year-olds passing General Certificate of Secondary Education exam subjects with five 'C'-grade results or better is: Chinese 61%, Indian 53%, White 47%, Black 29%. School exclusions for bad behaviour per 1000 pupils are: Chinese 5, White 28, Black 160. These results were interpreted in the Times as evidence for "institutional racism" in British schools….

Britain's Royal College of Nurses has voted by 55% to reject calls for nurses to undergo 'anti-racist' re-education (Guardian 22 iii '99). However, this vote at the nurses' annual conference in Harrogate brought swift intervention from the RCN's General Secretary, who achieved a 97% vote for a proposition that the College should 'address issues of institutional racism' in its ranks.

The Guardian's columnist Geoffrey Bindman has conceded that racist remarks in the home should not be prosecuted and that there should be no 'double jeopardy' when a first prosecution fails ('Obstructive Condon', 12 iii '99). However, Bindman insists that the police must serve minorities when called upon to investigate racism. Apparently police who were called recently to a racist incident involving a Black girl and White youths had inappropriately charged the girl herself with attackings the youths' dog….; and Bindman wants more service to minorities even when police are summoned by Whites to investigate crimes committed by Blacks. {The idea that 'institutional racism' is a failure of dutiful service to minorities is contained in Sir William Macluny's Report.}

Times Higher (12 iii '99) carried a lead letter deploring the 'institutional racism' of British universities as a "scandal" and a "serious infection." Writing from the Department of Religions, University of Manchester, Roger Ballard particularly named psychology as a subject that was excessively "eurocentric." {In fact, British academic psychology is better described as anglocentric. For better or worse, it has virtually no connection with the Continent -- though Chris Brand's article on 'the neuroticism factor' [including data on 'the policeman's first kiss'] has now appeared in Spanish thanks to the sensational new catedratica, Profesora Maria José Baguena ['¿Qué es ser alto en Neuroticismo? -¿Impulso, vigilancia o memoria personal?' Psicologemas 12, 23, 123-158 (1998)].}

Affirmative Racism Opposed

Ward Connerly, the man who is driving the anti-affirmative action movement in this country, is scheduled to speak on campus. ….his anti-affirmative action stance is so conservative, even Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush has refused to support Connerly's crusade because he feels it's too divisive. The Republican Party of Florida has also denied Connerly's campaign any financial support. ….Why is [Connerly] doing this? Fellow UC regent William Bagley has explained, "He's become a celebrity and he enjoys that. He walks into a white Rotary Club and he gets a standing ovation." A man who lives in a half-million dollar home on a half-acre lot in a neighborhood where he is the only black homeowner is bound to seek out the respect of the community and social class to which he belongs. ….Connerly has also allied himself with the Center for Individual Rights, which has taken on the judicial front in the war on equal opportunity. ….The Center has defended such people as Michael Levin, a New York professor who has argued that blacks are less intelligent and less law-abiding than other races. According to the Independent of London, the Center for Individual Rights has received financial support from the Pioneer Fund, a group that supports "research asserting the genetic superiority of whites."
Speaking in Massachusetts (as part of a whistle-stop tour of US colleges), Connerly confronted Amherst College student Justin Snider who read a list of statistics concerning the role of minorities in US society. According to Snider, despite the fact that white men comprise only 33% of the population, they constitute 80% of all university professors, 86% of partners at major law firms, and 90% of the United States Senate. When he finished reading the statistics, the audience burst into thunderous applause.
Ward Connerly attributes disparities between the academic performance of different races to different family backgrounds, such as the amount of a parents' education, income level and language barriers.

The g factor

The April 1999 issue of Personality and Individual Differences has several book reviews that deal with both race/ethnic differences and gender differences. Chris Brand reviews Intelligence, Heredity and Environment, from editors Sternberg and Grigorenko, and concludes that neither the hereditarians or the skeptics are on their best form.

....the sceptics [about heritable IQ] are a positive shambles. Their favourite gambits are as follows: nature and nurture cannot be separated; Bouchard's identical twins were only separated for twenty years; "the deprivation experiment can tell us nothing about the role of genes because it varies only experience"; genes have their effect in interaction with the environment; the h² for IQ might be different in different environmental reaction-ranges; the h² might be different if new environments realized more of a person's genetic potential; everything is necessarily cultural. These mouthings are variously platitudinous, incoherent, unfalsifiable, tired (seldom advancing beyond Herrman and Hogbens (1932/3*) speculative reservations) or even well in line with what hereditarians themselves have demonstrated (as to how a childs genes help create its environment). Still more striking is the complete failure of the sceptics to explain any percentage of IQ variance whatsoever. Instead of seeing themselves as offering a competing, social-environmentalist theory that can handle the data, or some fraction of it, the sceptics simply have nothing to propose of any systematic kind. Instead, their point -- or hope -- is merely that everything might be so complex and inextricable and fast-changing that science will never grasp it. [Earl] Hunt finally summarizes matters: the sceptics have humanitarian and hypothetical reservations about the hereditarian case, but they have no alternative to it. As Hunt says, "If we insist on treating genetic and cultural explanations of intelligence as a stomping match, then the behavioral geneticists are the stompers and the proponents of cultural effects are the stompees."

* HERRMAN, L. & HOGBEN, L., 1932/3, 'The intellectual resemblance of twins.' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 53, 105-129.

Every effort is being made by the US press to impede David Duke's latest candidature -- but without much attention to what he has actually written. In truth, Duke's semitophobia has little to commend it (see later review in this McDNL); but he is being subjected to the same indiscriminate and wilfully ignorant attack launched against Chris Brand in Edinburgh.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) -- Outlaw Republican David Duke, a "white rights" advocate who once led the Ku Klux Klan and is trying to revive a flagging political career with a run for Congress, details his beliefs in a new 736-page book, My Awakening, that calls for an Aryan resurgence. Duke is making the rounds of radio talk shows to jump-start his run for the First District seat vacated by former House Appropriations Committee chairman and Speaker-elect Bob Livingston, who resigned after admitting to several sexual indiscretions during his 21 years in Congress. A decade ago, Duke declared himself a Republican and was elected to the state House from a virtually all-white suburb of New Orleans on a platform of conservative populism, despite vehement denunciations of his past from the national Republican Party and then-President George Bush. But leaders of the state Republican Party, controlled for years by the conservative religious right, would not repudiate him despite efforts by moderate party members. Duke now is chairman of the St. Tammany parish (county) Republican Committee in part of the First Congressional District north of New Orleans. In his first and ensuing campaigns as a Republican, Duke described his Klan and neo-Nazi affiliations as ``youthful indiscretions,'' maintaining he was not a racist when he railed against affirmative action, welfare and crime, positions held by many conservatives. ....Duke says he is not a white supremacist, writing: ``I'm opposed to any sort of racial supremacy, and I believe the races should co-exist peacefully ... (with) optional separate homelands'' for minorities. But he asserts that African-Americans are intellectually inferior to whites and that a ``physical revolution may be required someday to free our (white) people and secure our survival, and such is justified by the highest laws of Nature and God.'' Duke's critics maintain that in his book he finally has shed the cloak of mainstream conservatism and revealed himself as racist, virulently anti-Semitic and homophobic. ``This book marks a significant departure from his old strategy of camouflaging his political goals,'' Lance Hill, director of Tulane University's Southern Institute for Education and Research, told Reuters….

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia(AFP 14 iii '99) -- Ivan Sirotkin, 20, had tried time and time again to kick his drug habit, without success, before he went to the St. Petersburg Human Brain Research Institute and got cured. In a three-hour operation, surgeons neutralised using a cryosurgical technique the part of his brain causing his addiction, with the result that he has completely lost his appetite for drugs.
      For the past year, the St. Petersburg institute has performed similar neurosurgery on several patients and doctors say 70 percent of them were cured of their physical and psychological dependency. They said the treatment was not only effective but had no discernible side-effects on the patient's personality.
      The surgeons drill a hole in the skull and then freeze about eight millimetres on the surface of the brain. Throughout the operation which is carried out under local anesthetic, the patient is conscious. "I would like to invite you home doctor to have a drink together," Ivan joked during the operation.
      "Operations of this type have been done for years to cure the "phantom limb syndrome" -- where patients who have lost a limb still feel pain from it. But we are using this technique to free patients from narcotic dependency," said Svyatoslav Medvedev, the director of the institute. The advantage of this method, which is also employed in other parts of Russia, is that it cures patients' psychological as well as physical dependency. Medvedev said that with the classic detoxification cures "only seven percent of patients manage to overcome this psychological dependency." "Our method makes the patient forget the sensation created by the narcotic and because of this, he loses the desire to take drugs," the doctor said.
      Already, 15 drug abusers have had the operation in St. Petersburg and 10 more are on the waiting list. …

EUROLAND -- All 20 European Commissioners have resigned following revelations of fraud and mismanagement. It is the French who have been particularly naughty; but lively Edith Cresson [once called by President Mitterand "my little soldier"] blamed her downfall on the Germans and said she had done nothing that was not common practice in Paris. This would include "belly dancing" to help business along, she said; and giving contracts to old pals.
The European Commission of Human Rights has referred England to the European Court of Human Rights for disgraceful misconduct in trying in a proper court boys of aged 10 -- eventually found guilty of kidnapping 3-year-old toddler, Jamie Bulger at a Liverpool shopping mall, murdering him and dumping his body on a railway track. Apparently the boys -- who were not mentally subnormal and were both supplied with social workers to look after them for the duration of the trial -- should have been given more chocolate biscuits and the judge should not have sat on a dais or worn his wig. (In the House of Commons, Mr Blair said the referral should not be seen as "an opportunity to bash Europe" -- of which some think Mr Blair would like to become a new Charlemagne.)

NEW YORK (BBCR4UK 14 iii '99, 09:15) -- Crime is down in the Big Bagel, and this is not least appreciated in Black areas; but 'anti-racists' led by the Black racist, Al Sharpton, have protested the street death of an unarmed West African immigrant, Amadou Diallo in a hail of 41 police bullets. So far, Mayor Giuliani (Republican) has made no comment, but Sharpton says: "The Mayor should learn the lesson of the ostrich -- that when you hide the face in the sand you expose the behind to the world." Last week Giuliani was berated in Congress by a Democrat representative; and President Clinton -- who normally courts police assiduously -- said he was "disturbed" by reports of what had happened. {Presently, after the strange scoring of the Lewis-Holyfield fight, Mayor Giuliani has his hands full restoring the reputation of New York as a venue for boxing matches. It was a lady umpire who had notably failed to appreciate the merits of the Black British contender.}

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics 12 iii '99) -- The House and Senate will debate hate crime legislation designed to help police fight racial, religious and ethnic violence, as well as violence motivated by disability, sexual orientation or gender. A bill was introduced in the House with 118 co-sponsors. A similar measure in the previous Congress drew a total of more than 200 co-sponsors. Vice President Al Gore {for whose philosophy, see McDNL 9 iii '99} issued a statement about hate crime: "It is wrong, it is illegal, and we will catch you."

LONDON (Times 10 iii '99) -- Classically, crime was a career gambit by hot-headed young men fuelled by bevvy. Now, however, as political correctness arrives and targets men of any age, Britain has a new breed of 'senile delinquents' who are in prison for naughtiness. From 1991 to 1997, for whatever precise reason, the percentage of the England & Wales prison population that is over age 60 rose from 1% to 1.7%. (Classically, wife murder and paedophilia are particularly popular with middle-aged men; but 'remarks' in saloon bars on racial questions would not be unknown.)

LONDON -- While authoritarian 'anti-racist' fervour sweeps Britain, Chancellor Gordon Brown has continued to provide the economic Thatcherism that made the Labour Party re-electable in 1997. Brown's third Budget announced continuing fiscal probity, an inflation rate of merely 2.5%, falling Government expenditure (especially, a £UK9 billion cut in the social security budget), and one penny off the standard rate of income tax -- making the 22p-in-the-pound rate at which Britain's main tax is to be levied the lowest in 70 years.
The Times declared Brown's effort "a cunning Budget by a cunning Chancellor" -- apparently revenue increases were to come from pension funds so no-one would notice; Opposition leader Mr Hague was left virtually speechless (though did very well considering, calling Mr Brown a slimy toad or some such in the Australian manner); and pundits wrote that Labour had the next British General Election in the bag.
More notably, Mr Brown was emphatic that his was a "New Labour" budget (that broke with the follies of previous socialism as much as with wicked and feckless Toryism….). -- Mr Brown's girlfriend was nowhere to be seen; so the guess is that Mr Brown has given up his quest for the Labour leadership and has settled to playing the loyal first mate in what could prove an imperium to vindicate Mr Harold Wilson's view that Labour (prior to its own eruption in trade union militancy) was Britain's 'natural party of government.'

LONDON (BBCR4UK 13 iii '99, 13:00; CFMR 14 iii '99, 01:00) -- On his back after accepting the resignation of his foreign affairs spokesman, the UK 'Opposition' leader, William Hague, called on Conservatives to apologize for anything they could think of. With regard to the Thatcher/Major years, Conseratives should admit 'that there were mistakes, that not all promises were delivered, that there was 'too little, too late' and that proposals that looked good on paper had not always turned out as planned', said Hague.
Any positive message? Yes, Conservatives now favour "kitchen table" or "garden fence" conservatism, said Hague. For example, they will come out against genetically modified crops and in favour of, er, The Family. {This statement elicited an aggrieved squeak from ex-Prime Minister John Major. However, the truth is that it was Major who himself began the doomed appeal to 'traditional values' -- which immediately led to media exposures of 'Tory sleaze.' Divided on Euro-ism and unwilling to embrace neoliberalism, the Conservatives look all set for a bleak future.}

NORTH LONDON -- Police arrested an Edmonton student, Mario Ferrera, 25, for the street death by burning two years ago of a Black musician, Michael Manson, 30. Previously, police had assumed that Manson, who had a history of mental illness, had set himself alight.
A council refused to re-house the Acourt brothers, widely blamed for the death in 1993 of Black teenager Stephen Lawrence. Police advised that death threats made against the Acourts need not be taken too seriously.

BERKELEY, CA. (U-WIRE; Wall Street Journal 11 iii '99) -- A University of California laboratory employee has been fired for leaking top-secret nuclear intelligence to China during the 1980s. UC officials dismissed Wen Ho Lee, a Chinese-American computer scientist at the university's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, after allegations surfaced that he stole nuclear technology from the federal lab. The information Lee allegedly leaked to China helped that country bypass research that would otherwise have taken it fifteen years. Apparently, the Clinton administration took little action as the leak was revealed. The Democrats' 1996 re-election effort had included campaign contributions from those with ties to the Chinese government, its military and even its intelligence organizations.

TOKYO -- Thanatos realism -- The subway ground to a halt recently as no less than four Japanese men in their fifties threw themselves to their deaths in front of trains on the same morning.

ETON, Slough, Buckinghamshire -- More thanatic realism -- At the inquest on an Eton pupil who died of suffocation, it turned out that boys at Britain's top school liked nothing better than playing 'the fainting game.' Strangling each other to the point of death gave them 'a high', they said. An Eton pupil told the court how two boys would tie a cord around the neck of a third pupil. When the boy being ``fainted'' stopped tapping his thigh the others would release him. When others lost interest in the game, the boy who died tried it alone. The fainting game tragedy was seized on by Britain's tabloid press, which loves to portray an image of bizarre goings on at schools like Eton, where students wear stiff white collars and black gowns to lessons and parents pay about £UK15,000 p.a. {Just a few years ago a Conservative MP was found dead, hanging from a light fixture dressed only in ladies' undergarments. Surely the Etonians would be better off with paedophilia!}

AMHERST, Mass. (U-WIRE) -- A heated debate dissolved into a discussion of what forms of actions would be taken if the University of Massachusetts administration fails to agree to a moratorium over the issue of affirmative action. The deadline set for the administration to temporarily stop its decision to change admissions practices and return to its former race-oriented admissions policy, is March 23 at 5 p.m. If demands aren't met by that time, the protestors have resolved to turn up the level of protest.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U-WIRE) -- Crowding the sidewalk while waiting in a line outside the Michigan Theater, University students and Ann Arbor residents flowed in to fill its 1,700 seats to capacity to hear second-wave 'feminist' Gloria Steinem's talk about "The Politics of Sexuality." Ms Steinem said patriarchy was a very bad thing, and unnatural to boot, and so was racism.

OXFORD -- A woman preaching…. -- Less appreciated was Professor Diana Rigg, the Avengers star, now 52, who has been given the Cameron Mackintosh Chair of Theatre Studies in the University. Twenty years ago, when first produced in an Oxford lecture hall, the slinky sexpot had said she did not know what to say; but a wag shouted from the audience 'Just stand there, darlin' and Diana kept her audience. This time, however, her audience has dropped over three lectures (one per week) from 120 to 25 and now to 11. {Catching what may be the national mood, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said he will resign if made to appoint any wymmin bishops.}

SOUTH AFRICA (Star 6 iii '99) -- In one of the more shocking incidents of school violence in recent times, a White Krugersdorp teacher, Andreas Werth, 39, was executed by an 18-year-old Black former pupil. The execution took place in full view of Grade 8 pupils. The teacher was seated in his classroom when an expelled Grade 11 pupil entered the room, pointed a firearm and shot him in the head.

SOUTH AFRICA (Daily Telegraph 15 iii '99) -- The all-Black University of Fort Hare which educated Nelson Mandela faces closure. The university, in Eastern Cape Province, was regarded affectionately by quite a few Black leaders as the 'Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale' of South Africa; but it now has a £UK7 million overdraft after years of fraud and mismanagement. There have been payments for jazz concerts that never took place, five-year sabbaticals, phantom staff and much staff idleness; and the Black vice-chancellor has been accused of plagiarism.

HARARE (Reuters) -- Three Americans facing charges of terrorism, espionage and sabotage have alleged that they had been subjected to severe torture by Zimbabwe police, including electric shocks to their genitals. The three work for Harvest Field Ministries in Indiana. Zimbabwe Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri says the three had a network in Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and were on a spying mission against Congolese President Laurent Kabila's allied forces. Investigators had uncovered arms and equipment from their safe houses in Harare and Lubumbashi in southern Congo, he said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a shooting victim's family to sue filmmaker Oliver Stone and others over allegations that their fictional movie "Natural Born Killers'' inspired a real-life crime spree.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) -- Nelson Mandela, who rarely mentions AIDS in public, has appealed for a concerted effort to beat the killer disease sweeping the continent. A total of 3.6 million South Africans carry the HIV virus, and that figure is rising by 1,500 a day. A huge preponderance are teenage girls.

PRETORIA, South Africa -- Fifteen Black men in the suburb of Hatfield raped an 18-year-old university student recently. Hatfield is a suburb frequented by the student community of Pretoria University. The girl's ordeal began when she was attacked by a man while waiting for a lift. She was brutally dragged to nearby station toilets and raped. She managed to flee, but was confronted by four more Black men who dragged her back into the toilets where each one raped her. While they were raping her, another eight to ten Blacks arrived and participated. Her attackers also throttled and assaulted her. Passers-by found the traumatized student in the toilets and took her to a police station.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (U-WIRE) -- A conference of 300 renowned historians, authors, researchers and students convened to discuss the implications of the study that used DNA evidence to suggest Thomas Jefferson fathered a child by his slave, Sally Hemings {McDNLs 27 i, 7 vii and 3 xi '98}. Herbert Barger, a Jefferson family historian who assisted in the DNA study, claimed that the selected panel of experts at the conference was a "stacked deck" and only included historians who believed Jefferson had fathered Hemings' child {cf McDNL 12 i '99}. The study "is not a truth--any one of eight people could have fathered the child," Barger said.

VIENNA, Austria -- A right-wing Austrian party led by an allegedly crypto-fascist candidate known for his anti-immigrant statements has won a major election in the southern province of Carinthia. In an 80% turnout, the Freedom Party received 42% of the votes (up 9% on its 1994 poll), and its closest competitors, the Social Democrats received only 34%. The party leader, Joerg Haider, is said to have praised Hitler's full-employment policies and the Waffen SS. However, asked about his apparent misdeeds on BBCR4UK (9 iii '99, 08:35, 'Today', Sue McGregor), the poll-topping Haider deplored being misrepresented, refused to continue the interview on such terms, insisted that the Freedom Party had liberal roots in the nineteenth century, and hoped to become Governor of Carinthia before running for Fuehrer ooops President.

ALASKA (Times 5 iii '99) -- An invalid suffering a 'debilitating' illness is to be allowed to grow three cannabis plants and to keep up to one ounce of cannabis resin in the house.

PLEASANTON, California (Reuters) -- The 39-year-old mother who hired a male stripper for 14-15-year-old girls having a birthday party (McDNL 8 xii '98) has been sentenced to 240 hours community service, probation, a $350 fine and 'parenting classes.' The girls had written on dollar bills where they wanted to be touched and the 29-year-old stripper complied after removing the policeman's uniform in which he had appeared, prosecutors said. One girl paid $US20 to remove the stripper's floral thong and fellate him.

LONDON (AFP) -- British paedophiles are increasingly going to eastern Europe to buy children from their parents for sex, the Times reported (8 iii '99). "We can stop football hooligans going abroad, but not paedophiles," complained a former detective with the Paedophile Unit at Scotland Yard. The paper also said that a former British radio presenter, aged 57, would be appearing in court in Prague charged with offences against 15-year-old boys. In Denmark a group of busybodies ooops concerned citizens called 'Red Barnet' has set up an Internet page where citizens can anonymously denounce to the police anyone selling child pornography.

NORTHAMPTON, UK (CFMR 14 iii '99, 00:00) -- In a possible move to capture traditionally Tory home ground, a senior Labour MP has been found during a police raid on a massage parlour. Twelve Thai girls were arrested at the brothel and seven have been deported. However, the MP, Joe Ashton a married man, was not charged with any offence, declined to give evidence, and, in a statement, said he had not gone to the brothel for sex.

LONDON 12 iii '99 -- Nude photos of McDNL heroine Nicole Kidman were published in UK tabloids, taken from a trailer for the new Stanley Kubrick film 'Eyes Wide Shut.' -- 'Eyes Wide Smut', the Sun headlined the superstar porn which revealed Nicole to have exceptionally pert breasts for a mother of two, and a tendency towards classical pear-shapedness of the overall figure. On the same day, perfectionist Kubrick (director of the first film of 'Lolita' -- McDNL 9 iii '99) was buried in Hertfordshire with the media in attendance. Hollywood was said to be amazed at Kubrick having been able to persuade actors married to each other to be civil and simulate sex for the cameras.

FALKLAND ISLANDS -- Prince Charles' effort to tango in Buenos Aires revealed him as the man he is, said his Argentinian female tangoiste partner: "out of step and out of touch." But the Prince was well received here by sheep shaggers. They hope he will drop Mrs Camilla Parker-Knoll, marry the daughter of Argentine President Carlos Menem and bring the Argentine into the British Commonwealth -- of which it was always an honorary associate member, but its upper classes lost control of the place temporarily in 1982, requiring 258 British troops to give their lives reclaiming the Falklands (pop. c. 1,800).

'Mein Kampf' for Louisiana:
a review of My Awakening.

"[A]mong themselves, [Jews] are inflexibly honest and ever ready to show compassion, though they regard the rest of mankind with all the hatred of enemies. They sit apart at meals, they sleep apart..."
TACITUS (c. 55-120).

"Only 3% of Americans are Jewish, but 27% of American Nobel Laureates have been Jewish (Zuckerman, 1977, Scientific Elite)."
Hans EYSENCK, 1995, Genius: the Natural History of Creativity. Cambridge University Press.

"[According to G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Jews] were intent on cornering as much of the world's wealth as possible through an international conspiracy at the same time as being involved in an international Bolshevik conspiracy intent on confiscating as much of the world's wealth as possible."
Gerald KAUFMAN, M.P., Queensman and UK Privy Counsellor, 1998, Times Higher, 2 i 98.

"In deference to the racial principle, even Jews who reject religion support the religious-racial superstructure of their people. Other Jewish strategies can be summarized as follows: they have stressed education and prized scholarship; they have actively encouraged the most intelligent and successful of their race to have the largest families; they have kept alive their history, traditions, culture and values; while they have worked together as a team for their objectives in the Gentile community, they have stressed individual responsibility; they have stressed the importance of the family unit; they speak against intermarriage and elevate genetic purity as one of their highest values (members of the Jewish Priest class are only the purest of Jews, i.e. they are forbidden to marry converts or their descendants); successful and powerful Jews are extremely generous to Jewish causes and never reluctant to use their power on behalf of their own people. All these traits are admirable, and in the multicultural societies we live in we can learn from these successful moral strategies. Of course, the reason why a Jewish problem exists comes from the fact that they inflict on their host peoples an opposite morality to their own. …they support group loyalty and solidarity among Jews, but individualism and universalism among Gentiles; ….they orchestrate open immigration into Western nations, but rigidly restrict immigration to Israel only to Jews."
David DUKE, 1998, My Awakening. Covington, LA : Free Speech Press.

"I will describe Jewish efforts to shape United States Immigration policy in opposition to the interests of the peoples of non-Jewish European descent, particularly the peoples of Northern and Western Europe. ….An important thesis is that all of these movements may be seen as attempts to alter Western societies in a manner which would neutralize or end anti-Semitism and provide for Jewish group continuity either in an overt or in a semi-cryptic manner. At a theoretical level, these movements are viewed as the outcome of the fact that Jews and gentiles have different interests in the construction of culture and in various public policy issues (e.g., immigration policy)."
Kevin MacDONALD, 1998, Summary of A People that Shall Dwell Alone. At http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/books.htm.

For the last ten years, the London School of psychology has faced a time of trial and needed all the help it could find. As the world's leading differential psychologists have been able to publish their main works only with mail order houses, a question has been whether anyone from outside academia would help keep alive serious and informed discussion of race, IQ and the political implications of human differences.

Plainly, the Pioneer Fund- and American Enterprise Institute-supported work that went into the Bell Curve (1994) produced a growth industry of critical (indeed, almost wholly critical) discussion; but that open-minded book actually made no definite claims about the strength, heritability or race-linkage of the g factor, and its agenda was a tired anti-welfare Reaganism that was hardly enlivened by reverie about lost rural utopias embodying community spirit. Anyhow, even if government policy wonks were said to rate The Bell, its impact on the universities was slight. No more has serious debate resulted from the maintenance by the determined Roger Pearson of his anthropological journal, Mankind Quarterly. Although this journal carried by far the most news of the travails of Phil Rushton, Raymond Cattell, Linda Gottfredson and the present author, its effort has frankly had no detectable impact. Merely to be willing to consider the hereditarian case about IQ has been to invite neglect if not accusations of 'racism.'

The publication of My Awakening is therefore important. Here is a big, popularly written book by the elected Louisiana legislator, David Duke -- a handsome, dashing, daring and likeable 48-year-old Republican (though one who has challenged other Republicans in his time). (The artifices of plastic surgery may have preserved a youthful look, but childhood photos suggest the dare-devil and fan of Tom Sawyer that the text describes.) With lively visual aids, tables, referencing and extensive use of apt quotation, Duke -- who has for some years maintained a responsible and useful website about race and IQ -- provides a rousing characterization of Caucasian attainments (the chapter on Duke's visit to Greece is a high spot). Fired by the opposition he has countered over the years (including nights in jail on arrest) as he has pursued his lifelong belief in the importance of genetic factors (growing up as the son of an Army father and an alcoholic mother), Duke has no doubt of the dead weight being tied to Western culture by egalitarianism, welfarism and multiculturalism; and he has a definite agenda -- wanting nothing less than a "revolution", i.e. "an Aryan awakening."

Yes: there is the problem with this book. While Duke supplies in his first 200 pages slices from his history and a very reasonable coverage of race and IQ , the reader can see looming ahead not only 250 pages on 'The Jewish Question' but further instalments such as 'The Klan Rises' and 'The Grand Dragon and the Jewish Psyche.' Duke provides a popular and more politicized version of Kevin MacDonald's academic theorizing about the Jews (in A People that Shall Dwell Alone). For better or worse, this book is going to be judged by its 'anti-Semitism.'

This is a process of scrutiny for which this book is better prepared than many such. If the lack of hostility to, or rudeness about Jews were not itself sufficient, the other parts of the book provide adequate testimony that Duke is no embittered paranoid or frothing fundamentalist. Indeed, Duke had a Jewish great-uncle, insists his father admired 'the Hebrews', and only learned his own anti-Semitism along the way once he had already become active in opposing Black welfare-politicking in New Orleans. Admittedly, Duke does little to distance himself from the illiberal version of Christian morality that has lately appealed to US Republicans and made the latter a laughing stock in the civilized world as they tried to bring down the US President for a blowjob. And there is no serious sex in the book -- though Duke's first wife was quite a looker. Yet there is nothing that requires Duke to be dismissed as illiterate, inadequate, psychopathic or psychotic. His arguments on 'the Jewish question' thus have as fair a chance of success as one can imagine without the book being written by a tenured academician or an ex-Rabbi.

Duke's argument is essentially double-barrelled. Unexceptionably, Duke sees no need for any multiculturalist weakening of White society -- especially in view of the low inherited average IQs of the Black people who have usually been envisaged as the main beneficiaries of affirmative action and welfarism in the USA. At the same time, Duke sees the driving force behind Western egalitarianism and 'anti-racism' as being none other than the Jews -- who have apparently had a pretty good twentieth century and are eagerly looking forward, in their secret cabals, to the eventual destruction of Christianity and of the White race itself (except perhaps as underlings to themselves). Thus, inevitably -- without any serious consideration of how happy a Jewish-led world might actually be -- Duke wishes a resurgence of White pride before it is too late. Admirably, Duke seems to have little subjective animus against Jews (he does not even mention anything Jews are poor at, like poetry¹); and he avoids illiberal proposals as to what might be done about 'the Jewish question.' However, since critics will doubtless dismiss his posture as one of thinly veiled 'crypto'-fascism, it is important to examine what may be called his cognitive semitophobia and its political ramifications.

Duke's special idea is that the forces for equality, underdog-support and jobs in the welfare empire that culminate today in 'political correctness' (PC) are in effect just the latest means by which the Jewish race is making its bid for world hegemony. Effectively, Duke uses four main lines of evidence. (i) There are plenty of snatches from the Talmud which would be hard to match in official Christian writings: 'Only Jews are human', 'Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed', 'Gentiles prefer sex with cows' are just some of the suggestions that Jewish leaders have chosen to transmit in their 'literature' from one generation to another. (ii) Jews were massively over-represented in the early Russian Communist leadership -- even Lenin having a Jewish grandfather, and all six of the top organizers of the Russian Gulags -- the greatest killing machine in world history -- having been Jewish (according to Solzhenitsyn). (iii) The media of the modern USA is largely Jewish-dominated: a half of Hollywood's film producers are Jewish (like the two most discussed film directors of recent months, Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick); and the major opinion-forming organs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report and Atlantic Monthly are all in the hands of Jewish owners, editors or both. (iv) The great Jewish creation of the twentieth century, the state of Israel has been an authoritarian, racist and conspiratorial venture which has even required the USA to conceal from its own citizens the numbers of its servicemen killed by Israeli actions at times when US Middle East policy was not sufficiently obliging.

Spelled out at length, as they are by Duke, all four lines of evidence are thought-provoking. They may impress readers who have never previously entertained the idea that competition in the modern world involves anything more than the social classes or the sexes. Yet to what does Duke's evidence really testify? Religious and racial groups -- just like scientists and philosophers as individuals -- all believe they have a superior command of the truth and that they are entitled to a firm grip on their locality's politics. So what is new? (After all, if a religion did not think itself superior and hope for a big influence on mankind, why would its followers not give up and join another show?)

More especially, is over-involvement in business and politics surprising in a group that research shows to have the highest mean IQ of any long-running racial group on earth?² Few would doubt what psychometric studies have also tended to testify: that Jews have particular talents with 'verbal' rather than with 'performance' tasks. Not for nothing are Jews the world's most literate people, the acknowledged source of the world's two most successful world-wide religions in recent centuries (Christianity and Islam), and the originators of the current Western sexual code (monogamy + court-supervised divorce).

The over-involvement of Jewish intellectuals in revolutionary and welfarist politics was triggered by the pogroms of late-nineteenth-century eastern Europe which even saw all Jews banished from Moscow in 1890. {The enthusiasm of young Jews for Bolshevism in Hungary of around 1920 is attested by István Deák (1999, New York Review of Books, 8 iv) and by David Cesarini (1998, Arthur Koestler, London:Heineman). For a wider-ranging summary of Jewish Bolshevism, see http://www.hoffman-info.com/communist.html: apparently Stalin had a Jewish mistress, the sister of his Jewish chief executioner, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich.} Yet it is well-matched by the over-involvement of Jewish brainpower after 1945 in support for right-wing versions of freedom in economics. (As the Jewish joke has it: 'How many Jews does it take to start an argument? -- Two.') Writing from the USA, where Jews long tried to make common cause with Blacks, Duke forgets that Mrs Thatcher's trail-blazing, free-market and union-busting Cabinets in the UK positively over-represented Jewish talent. (Indeed, Thatcherism itself was really the creation of the Jewish academic, Sir Keith Joseph -- just as British imperialism owed much to the converted Jew, Benjamin Disraeli.³) Sadly, Duke makes no effort to survey the modern world of ideas and to recognize the contributions made by Jewish intellectuals like Sir Isaiah Berlin, Milton Friedman, Arthur Koestler and Sir Karl Popper to sustaining a West in which there is liberty, stable currency and an appreciation that scientific truth is not merely 'relative.' As Duke's book was coming out, the US Jewish magazine Commentary sought and published from the present Gentile reviewer an account of the de-publication of The g Factor by a frightened Gentile publisher, Wiley Inc.; and the very un-Jewish film 'Shakespeare in Love' was winning all the Oscar nominations. Nor have Jewish people seemed any more united than the Irish, the Afghanistanis or the Kurds in the way in which they have approached their twentieth-century problems. Israel, in particular, always seems on the brink of religious versus secular civil war -- such is the enthusiastic expression of diverse and dogmatic viewpoints that makes that imperilled country's half a century of law-governed democracy a remarkable achievement.⁴

None of this is to say that the Jews have not taken risks -- and paid heavy prices -- this century. To have fought well for Germany and brought down the Russian Czar in time of war understandably gave the Jews of 1917 a surge of confidence. As Europe's nation states bankrupted themselves fighting each other, the Jews seized the chance of their own homeland by at once helping a desperate Britain and 'stabbing in the back' the Germany that had been kinder to them than had any other European country: in return for Britain's Balfour Declaration on Palestine, they used their financial influence and knowledge of the extramarital sex life of US Naval Secretary of State Franklin Roosevelt⁵ to persuade America into the First World War. Sixteen years later, Jewish financiers chose to respond to Nazi provocations by declaring international trade war on Germany when Hitler was made Chancellor. So confident were they of success that less affluent Jews failed to make the necessary escape from the land to which the Jewish leadership plainly felt no loyalty.

Still, very few in the West appreciated the scale of the slaughter that would follow the end of the Nazi-Soviet pact between the world's two great socialist powers -- a slaughter in which each side's purging itself of the 'useless' and possibly treacherous played a major part. Moreover, Jewish demands were no different from those of any other group led in the spirit of those times to pursue 'nationhood' -- as desired by the idealistic organizer of the 1918 settlement, Woodrow Wilson. Merely, the Jews' predicament was worse: long the commercial intermediaries in the covert business affairs of aristocratic Christian governments (even profiting massively by predicting Wellington's victory at Waterloo, according to Duke⁶), the Jews found themselves with less of a role as government became more open; and they had no territory of their own on which to fall back as nationalism became the rage. After nineteen centuries of Christian complaints that they had 'murdered Christ'⁷, it was hardly surprising that the Jews should have some anti-Gentile sentiments in their holy books -- though Duke's findings of such passages do not extend any nearer the present than 1935.⁸ Nor can the Jews be blamed for embracing 'media studies.' Indeed, this seems another example of their good intelligence. After all, the press has become, with the full consent of other Westerners, the modern 'lower house' of most constitutions. (It is in the press that matters are argued out quickly and brutally before being handed on to those unduly sober bodies, the modern parliaments.) Duke's compilation of evidence on the US media certainly helps explain why the American press is so boring (despite employing the world's wittiest columnists). 'Responsible' intellectuals in Britain, too, would like the embarrassing Argie-, Frog- and Kraut-bashing Sun newspaper suppressed if they could arrange it. Yet Duke fails to prove a truly censorious Jewish stranglehold on the media. Most recently, it was a Gentile firm, St Martin's [Macmillan] that declined to publish David Irving's Holocaust revisionism; and another such, HarperCollins, that would not let the last Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, have his say about Red China.

In all this there are, additionally, seven real peculiarities in Duke's argumentation.

The question for the West is whether a future can be found that involves not only productive free markets and the reward structure of unequal incomes but a reduction in irresponsible breeding, welfare dependency, useless officialdom, censorious depublishing and wasted investment; and an increase in reasonable hope and pride for all. In particular, the stark problems that remain at the bottom of the Western social heap need to be addressed by letting youngsters free of current 'education' and 'welfare' -- both of which should cut back so as to let kids have the cash for themselves to invest in capital (whether cars, computers or courses) and contracts with the labour market. Duke is right that much statist effort of recent years has perpetuated when it has not aggravated problems of low IQ; and it has been treacherous in its ceaseless denigration of Western achievements and in its reward of 'need' rather than desired outcomes. As the West faces this challenge, the Jews (who believe in personal responsibility quite as much as do the Gentiles) are more likely to be a help than a hindrance. Hopefully the Jews will take as keen an interest in liberalizing the modern state (opening its processes to individual choice) as they have taken in PC. Their past involvements on the 'right' as well as the 'left' make this perfectly likely.

What David Duke should do about his failure to deliver much from his two decades of open-minded semitophobia is only a little more difficult. After such a débâcle, he would probably be well advised to rely more on his own prejudices, his pleasant character, his evident delight in reading history, and his courage in challenging nonsense. Hopefully, he will come to concentrate on backing intelligence and those who try to study it. In the twentieth century the West wasted a lot of intelligent lives to see off nationalism, socialism and their gruesome combinations in Fascism, Nazism and Communism. Hopefully David Duke will cease to be distracted by his open-mindedness about Jewish plots and get on board for a swift victory of neoliberalism against what will otherwise be the considerable tyranny of 'politically correct' neosocialism imposed on a hapless underclass and on any who try to break the mould.

1 "Jews can't write poetry." -- Wagner. (Sylvia Plath may be an exception that proves the rule….; and the King Solomon of the Old Testament certainly was. The Mosaic injunction against making images of God may have been a restriction on Jewish talent; but such a restriction itself could be argued to have been more acceptable to one racial group than to another.) (Other exceptions were: Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838), born to Jewish parents, who wrote libretti for three of Mozart's operas; and Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), born to Jewish parents, who devoted himself to Franco-German reconciliation and cosmopolitan democratic ideals and wrote 'Die Lorelei.')

2 Admittedly, there has been too little testing of Armenians. In the Middle East, it is joked: 'It takes two Turks to swindle a Greek, two Greeks to swindle a Jew, and two Jews to swindle an Armenian.' Other ethnic groups of the Caucasus should also be tested, like the Khazars with whom Arthur Koestler believed the Jews may once have interbred to yield the remarkable mathematical, musical, philosophical, political and business talents of modern European [i.e. Ashkenazi] Jewry.

3 "Der alte Jude, das ist ein Mann," said an admiring Bismarck after the Congress of Berlin cut back Russia and Turkey and gave Britain 'peace with honour' and the island of Cyprus.

4 Israel can be said to have vindicated the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy -- abandoned by many African countries after their independence.

5 The thirty-five-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt was having an affair in Washington and, as Assistant Naval Secretary, overseeing US naval forces in European waters, was well placed to persuade President Wilson that Germany was attacking neutral American shipping. Roosevelt's philandering did not become known even to leading journalists like the BBC's Alastair Cooke until 1940.

6 Duke's story is that, hearing advance news by their carrier pigeons of Napoleon's defeat, Jewish financiers pretended for a day that Napoleon had won, thus enabling them to make a killing on the London stock exchange. However, Jews are not well known as pigeon fanciers, and some historians dismiss Duke's account of the origin of the Rothschild fortune.

7 Traditional Christian complaints against the Jews must seem strange to who accept the Pauline theology that Jesus had been sent by God precisely so as to suffer and die (for the sins of mankind as a whole). In any case, Jesus had plainly disrupted the Jerusalem financial market, blasphemously declared himself to be God, and anyhow been executed by the Romans.

8 In recent times, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg, the Orthodox head of an Israeli government Yeshiva school said: "The life of Israel is worth more than the life of a Gentile" (quoted by Bernard Wasserstein in Times Higher Educational Supplement [London], 5 iii 1999). However, Rabbi Ginzburg might also, conceivably, have agreed that 'the life of Iraq' is worth more than the life of a single Jew.

9 The possible disappearance of American Jewry by miscegenation is discussed by Alan Dershowtiz in his book The Vanishing American Jew.

A HitlerKritik, titled 'Liberating the Past from the Future and the Future from the Past', is in preparation. It considers the implications of the recent rise in concern about the Holocaust; and it advocates neoliberalism for the 21st century so as to avoid repeating mistakes of the past.

Just how much wreckage can be achieved by the joint efforts of
well-meaning egalitarians and low-IQ intended beneficiaries of
their efforts was told in ' THE HAITIAN HOLOCAUST' in the
Aida Parker Newsletter, South Africa, xii '98 (http://users.kcyb.com/rockitech/aidaparker/221/index.htm).

By 1789, the colony had been under cultivation for 92 years. Seldon Rodman writes: "The rich alluvial Plaine du Nord ... boasted a thousand plantation houses behind monumental pillared gateways. It sparkled at night with the gay illumination of elaborate balls, lighted carriages and the glaring ovens and stacks of boiling-houses refining sugar cane around the clock." Soon all that was to change.
      In 1789, the French Revolution had overthrown the King and proclaimed the doctrine of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." Inspired by the events in France, a slave revolt was imminent. On the eve of that rampage, there were some 40,000 Whites in Saint-Domingue, 30,000 free Blacks and mulattos, and almost 500,000 slaves. At the best of times, French military resources in the colony were inadequate. These were far from the best of times.
      On May 15, 1791, France's National Revolutionary Assembly voted full equality with Whites to all male mulattos born of two free parents. Though this affected a mere 400 men, it was to inspire the first violent and fiery insurrection of Blacks. The word fury is not just figurative. A fire had been kindled among half a million Black slaves that would not be extinguished till the last of the colony's 40,000 Whites and the majority of free Blacks and mulattos had been killed or driven from the island.
      In August, 1791, the lid blew off the colony. Rioting slaves became a great mob that ran amok, uprooting, torching and destroying. Before long Haiti was dominated by roving slave bands. Everywhere there was devastation. In Paris, the Revolutionary Assembly had placed itself squarely on the side of the Blacks. It was hinted that the emancipation of the slaves was near at hand.
      The Whites fully realised that they faced total extermination should the Blacks take control. The colonists now talked of secession from France. All normal business in Haiti ceased. The Whites began arming themselves against the Black revolution they feared was about to engulf them. Orders came from Paris that the slaves should crush any outbreak of White resistance. That was too much for most Whites, who gave up and left, often with nothing but the clothes they stood up in. They were the lucky ones. Soon great fires could be seen in the countryside. The Negroes were burning the canefields and slaughtering all those Whites and free Blacks unable to flee in time.
      Undermanned and under-equipped militia went into the interior on reconnaissance patrols. Few returned. The stories survivors brought back were chilling. The men were at once hacked to death, but the women were gang-raped by their slaves before being tortured to death, along with their children. In some cases the women were thrown on top of the bodies of their husbands, fathers or brothers, then raped.
      On February 3, 1794, the French revolutionary government officially abolished slavery and declared all the Negroes in Haiti as equal citizens of the state. By 1798 the revolution had succeeded both in establishing the freedom of the slaves and, decisively, in the development of modern Haiti, in destroying the country's profitable agricultural base. By the end of 1803, France's richest colony laid destitute, a smoking wasteland. The effects of these historical events have lasted to this day. Haiti for 195 years has spawned nothing but horror, poverty, disease, sporadic massacre and brutal dictatorships. Haiti got its new name on January 1, 1804, on proclamation of the half-made ex-slave, Jean Jacques Dessalines. His first act after having crowned himself Emperor in imitation of Napoleon, was to seize the tricolour flag of France and tear out the white section.
      No sooner was Dessalnes firmly established on his imperial throne than the order went forth for the total massacre of the White population. On April 25, 1805, he published the proclamation that officially established Haiti as a Black state and banned Whites for ever from its shores. By 1806 the entire White population had been butchered and the bloodstained island returned to the jungle.

McDNL's South Africa Correspondent writes:
The Haiti history is accurate. It used to be in the Encyclopaedia Britannica but has been dropped. The Haiti holocaust was not a minor affair. It contributed to the refusal of the South to eliminate slavery at the pace that Lincoln wanted.

{An important part of the problem of handling the 1791 rebellion in Haiti was that the French needed Black support to see off challenges from encroaching Spanish and English forces. Hence the Jacobin Commissioner, Léger Félicité Sonthonax, who was sent out in 1792, came to order a general emancipation.}

The g Factor

In on-going review in the McDougall NewsLetters (vi '98 et seq.),
Emeritus Professor Arthur JENSEN's 648-page tome
The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
is also reviewed in the latest PINC (the Internet magazine)
by editor Gavan TREDOUX.
Three particular points emerge, as follows.

Neosocialism in South Africa

NATIONAL SOCIALISM 000PS NEOSOCIALISM RULES

Once upon a time, socialists wished to abolish the inheritance of private property (which was "theft"), to confiscate ("nationalize") firms, to control "gaffers" by arbitrary breaches of contract (trade-union-style "withdrawal of labour"), and to "redistribute" income by means of taxation.
Today, the victory of international capitalism has made people freer and richer than ever before. People vote for it, the system cannot for the moment be touched, and socialists have had to bit the bullet. However, socialists have now mended what long seemed to the majority of Western electorates to be a bad hole in the socialists' boat -- their sympathy for criminals. (In the East, the locking up of 'exploiters' and 'class traitors', not to mention Jews and intellectuals, had proved a popular sport: Stalin is still remembered with affection in Russia. But Western socialism was crafted to appeal to liberal sensitivities.)
Today, it is the law itself which is being increasingly used as the main weapon of those who seek power in the name of the 'oppressed minorities' of their choice. And behind new uses of the law stand religious phalanxes of feminists and ideological kin demanding 'codes' and 'targets' in the workplace. In its new tyranny, neosocialism thus resembles increasingly the national socialism of 1930's Germany from which leftists have ardently wished to dissociate themselves. Importantly, neosocialism's legalistic nature makes it able to draw at least grudging support from the many 'conservatives' who, whatever their dislike of big government, always manage to draw the line at opposing it. Believing they must at least respect the laws, conservatives have proved useless as neosocialists have stolen the universities, their kids' university places and their handguns and now propose to steal the right to free speech in the home and the very machinery of the state itself -- its police and armed forces. Understandably, the new trend is well marked in Black South Africa, as McDNL's correspondent records.

One of the ANC's policies is to promote " transformation" and widespread affirmative action. This has meant not just the displacing of whites from government positions (which happened to the English when the Afrikaners took over in 1948) but strict quotas on the population groups that any company of over 50 people can employ. Firms can be find up to £UK1.5 million if they are detected to have failed to comply.
The government has also taken the power to stipulate the maximum ratio of income that can occur in a company -- though this power has yet to be applied. In effect the African National Congress is using the national socialist route in handling the economy. Rather than nationalising all industries it is implementing legislation that forces the companies to carry out its social and ethnic policies.

Behind such moves is the racist pressure from the grassroots. Just as Hitler himself did little to articulate anti-Semitism after he became Chancellor -- indeed, was active in controlling its daily illegalities in Germany of the mid-1930's -- so the ANC will not admit that it intends to tolerate South African Whites being driven out (when not murdered). But hostility to Whites increasingly surfaces in the newspapers -- here in reply to an 'Uncle Tom':

Meantime, in the countryside, it is now a weekly occurrence for elderly White people to be killed by their own servants and Black locals. Recently, Gert van der Merwe (73) was ambushed as he parked his car behind his small farmstead [a few sheep, a couple of pigs] after returning with his wife Fransina (68) from a Sunday church service in Naboomspruit, Northern Province. First the farmer was shot; then as he struggled towards his farm, his wife came out to investigate the disturbance and both had their throats slit. Such couples have little serious protection; and they cannot easily leave. No more than the Jews of Germany can the older and poorer Whites of South Africa face up to what Blair-backed South African neosocialism holds in store.

The comparison of the Afrikaner settlers with Germany's Jews is not idle. Mr Nelson Mandela's favourite journalist, Jon Qwelane [the only journalist invited to Mandela's recent wedding], can be heard on South Africa's air waves (Radio 702 21 ii '99, 'Believe it or not', 19:30) quoting the Talmud to denounce the 'murderous racism' of Jews. "I don't hate Jews," said Qwelane; "I just hate it when they deny what is there in their book." (Qwelane denies being racist and claims to have white friends, but he is often uses material that comes straight from Louis Farrakhan.) There is a large Jewish population in Johannesburg, dating from the times when that prosperous city offered a refuge from eastern European anti-Semitism. Johannesburg long rivalled New York in terms of the number of psychoanalysts per head of population. It may be that Black-Jewish tensions, reduced in the USA by virtual apartheid, will first take a murderous form in South Africa.

Anti-Semitism

It is sometimes said casually that Sir Winston Churchill was anti-Semitic. Doubtless, as in the case of Sir Francis Galton (whom Churchill admired and quoted), some less than appreciative remarks can be found regarding the impoverished and illiterate turn-of-the-century migrants who sought refuge in Britain from Russian Orthodox Christianity. But Churchill

As well as deploring the "perverted science" of the Nazis, Churchill fought hard with the British military to allow Palestinian Jews to make the contribution that they wished to the British war effort, under a UK flag that would bear the Star of David. Churchill minuted crossly in 1945 (Literary Review ii '99):

Churchill's reprimand carried the day and a division of 5,000 Jewish soldiers served with British troops against battle-hardened German troops on the Austro-Yugoslavian border, sacrificing 83 dead in the process.

New light has been thrown on German anti-semitism by the trial of Belorussian concentration camp guard Anthony Sawoniuk (see McDNL 16 ii '99). According to a Jewish witness, Belorussians found German soldiers lacking in anti-Semitic zeal. "As soon as the Germans leave, we'll massacre you," the 19-year-old Sawoniuk was said to have told the witness.

A new biography of the "pathfinding modernist and foaming anti-Semite", Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961), has attracted a substantial review in Times Higher (5 iii '99). Born to a poor clerk and a lace seamstress, the French novelist rose through decorated First World War service in the cavalry (from which he was invalided out with serious injuries) and work as a surgeon for the poor in Detroit and Paris to become Co-ordinator of Social Hygiene for the League of Nations. As a writer, he was on the anarchist right in the tradition of Swift and Flaubert; and his use of the demotic and his insights into lower class life influenced Jean-Paul Sartre, William Burroughs and Henry Miller. He used phrases without verbs (petite musique) and right-wing jokes (culte de la blague) as ways of by-passing accusations of political incorrectness; and he scorned nonsense -- standing for classic Montmartre as against the trendiness of Montparnasse and calling Sartre "a parasite in his own bowels." Wider arguments were with America, Britain and the USSR, so he had a popular following in France -- though temporarily fleeing to Denmark to escape accusations of Nazi connections in 1944. Tinnitus, partial paralysis and near-insanity did nothing to impair the quality of his work in later years. His most famous novels are Journey to the End of Night (1932), Death on the Instalment Plan (1936), From One Castle to Another (1957) and North (1960). His most sensational sexual liaison was a seven-year relationship with the beautiful American dancer, Elizabeth Craig.

{Celine is also the name of a leading Paris fashion designer -- the one that makes relatively wearable dresses with zips allowing easy access and disrobing. But there is apparently no connection. Celine himself was born L. F. Destouches.}

Like much of Hitler's character, the essence and origin of Hitler's anti-Semitism remain essentially obscure to the biggest-ever industry of historians. In the recent acclaimed volume by Ian Kershaw (reviewed by Gordon Craig in New York Review of Books 4 iii '99 along with the perhaps the first decent photos of Hitler ever widely published in the English-speaking world), no decisive commitment is made; but Kershaw is clear that Hitler of 1910 (at age 19, in Vienna) was happy to praise the Jewish composers Mendelssohn and Offenbach and went out of his way to defend the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. By contrast, in 1918, back in Munich from the trenches, Hitler is declaring 'Die Juden sind an allem schuld' ['The Jews are to blame for everything'] -- a change compatible with the view that Hitler agreed with the Dolchstoss [stab-in-the-back] theory of how Germany had lost the First World War, and also with the occasionally told story that Hitler had been sodomized by a German-Jewish officer whose quarters he had visited one night in 1917.
Interestingly, Hitler's futuristic 'third way' -- abjuring the conventional left and right -- was particularly attractive to women, who were known to cry out 'Heil Hitler!' as they orgasmed. However, the popularity of Hitler's thugs was waning a little by 1933 and it took the offices of Franz von Papen to have Hitler appointed Chancellor with the idea of sorting out Germany's turbulence: von Papen, who stepped down to become Hitler's Vice-Chancellor, proudly announced to friends that he had "bought" Hitler. (Von Papen himself was acquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg in 1946.)

An McDNL essay on the HitlerZeit and its implications for the 21st century is in preparation, titled 'Liberating the Past from the Future and the Future from the Past.'

Individual versus Environment

A tribute to the survival of the human spirit even in the concentration camps was provided in Atlantic Monthly (ii '99) by Tadeusz Debski of Chicago (for full text see http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99feb/9902lett.htm#holocaust studies).

Deep South

For the Times, regular columnist Bronwen Maddox has been reporting her shock at the continuing poverty of the Mississippi Delta. However:

Evidently the years of welfarism and affirmative racism that have created so many jobs for northern mulattos in teaching Black History and on the New York Times have done little to encourage spriteliness among the ancestral Afro-Americans of Alabama.

Chris Brand's Personality, Biology & Society

A new advertisement for P, B & S has now been prepared by a supporter.
It makes Chris's oeuvre more intelligible to the human race.

Jed Bran' - Varmintality, Biology an' Society

This hyar anthology of quotashuns is designed t'illestrate claims an' findin's in diffruntial psychology -- th' study of indivijool an' group differences in psychology. It has thirty seckshuns (plus an Intryduckshun an' an Appendix) which sh'd all to be available on th' Net soon, as enny fool kin plainly see. Beginnin' wif covahage of Juneral Quesshuns (e.g, acco'din' t' th' code o' th' heells! mind-body problem, nature/nurture quesshuns), th' quotes covah Intellyjunce, Varmintality, Psychopathology, Group Differences (in age, sex, class an' race), Politics an' Varmintality Testin'. In etch of th' thirty seckshuns, th' quotes is arranged to exemplify th' main ongwine academic an' political corntrovahsies.
A dispute wifin quite a few of th' fields covahed is thet between 'realistic' ('essentialist', 'harditarian') approaches an' them approaches thet is mo'e 'idealistic' ('construckivist' o' jest 'social-environmentalist'). Th' Intryduckshun on overviews th' whole of diffruntial psychology an' its histo'y an' th' realist-idealist line of tenshun. Th' Appendix explains th' statistical method of facko' analysis thet has proved so impo'tant t'diffruntial psychology (an' especially t'th' 'London Skoo' intelleckual heirs of Suh Francis Galton). A large seckshun on 'Psychosocial Engineerin' covahs peetaytively improvin' schemes of therapy, trainin', ejoocayshun, eujunics an' indivijoolizashun of micro-environments. Th' seckshuns on Politics cornsider th' contribushuns thet psychology can make towards th' achievement of sech popular goals as liberty, equality, fraternity an' jestice.

Date Rape

HARVARD -- The university has recently declined to expel a girl who invited a fellow student to her room for the night, had sex, and later complained of rape and a little battery {the extent of which was of no interest, to judge by press reports}. Instead, the male student has been expelled!
Abigail H. Zoba, a counselor with Peer Relations and Date Rape Education, spoke to a group of about 30 people, including Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, about the current state of Harvard's policy on rape. She clarified the difference between the Massachusetts state policy on rape and Harvard regulations. "Harvard's policy is much more strict," said Zoba. "People who are drunk or high are by definition unable to give consent to sex."

It certainly seems humane of Harvard to doubt the absence of female consent to sex in such circumstances and not to expel the girl. But why isn't the male drunkard allowed similar benefit of compassion?
Do Harvard students really need nannies? -- If so, presumably Harvard bosses think most US adults will need nannying for life!
Anyhow, why is Nanny Harvard more concerned to constrain private sex than to constrain the public inebriation? -- Doesn't Nanny know that the superego is soluble in wood alcohol and other mood-altering substances? Hasn't she thought of teaching that to her psychologically illiterate students?

Darwin Award Nominations

The Darwin Awards, made annually at 'Future Generations' (http://eugenics.net/),
are for those who die in spectacularly stupid ways
and thus limit their contribution to the human gene pool.
Here are McDNL's choices of possible winners.

[UPI, Toronto] Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students.

[Unknown source] Poacher Marino Malaga shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on top of him.

[Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario.] A man who had been cleaning a birdfeeder on the balcony of his apartment fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan Macko, 55, had been standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the regional police, adding: "It appears the chair started rolling and catapulted him over the balcony."

'KLANSMAN' I.Q. AUTHOR RUNS FOR U.S. CONGRESS
-- BRINGING U.S. MEDIA WRATH ON A PSYCHOLOGIST SUPPORTER

'SUPERWOMEN' ATHLETES DOUBTED
-- McDNL Correspondent scores in Sunday Times

Educalunacy

Extra school lessons are to be offered to the "brightest" top 10% of pupils in Britain's state comprehensive schools. The lessons will be available in England's major conurbations (London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester). They are meant to compensate for the worthlessness of lessons that brighter children have to endure in mixed-ability classes so as to maintain the PC fiction that serious IQ differences do not exist.
The new fast track punishment proposal, called 'Excellence in Schools', is acceptable to BBC-interviewed egalitarian educationalists Prof. Ted Wragg (Exeter LUniversity) and Doug McEvoy (National Union of Teachers) -- 'so long as it does not become elitist.' Consolation was taken from the fact that a Professor Tim Brighouse, a supporter of 'inclusion' in education, and perennially at loggerheads with H.M. Chief Inspector of Schools Chris Woodhouse, had been put in charge of the scheme. Apparently, educaloons like Wragg and McEvoy have been bought off by Mr Blair -- though they say they have not yet been shown the small print. However, 'controversy' erupted through 21 iii '99 as comprehensive school headmasters and less forewarned union leaders learned of the scheme. Critics resented the implication that existing state school education was failing brighter children.
Defending the initiative, blind Education Minister David Blunkett said all children were being treated the same. 'All children will receive what they need,' he said. 'I am not backing down on selection. Our ambition is diversity and excellence. Some children have special needs, so those are recognized. Others have special abilities ooops aptitudes ooops attainments, so those are recognized.' The Minister did not explain how the candidates for extra lessons would be selected; and he told Parliament an extra £UK350 million would be thrown at education as a whole (inevitably including a provision of "mentors" for needful children). Replying, Conservative education spokesman David Willetts pointed out that the Government was doing a U-turn by admitting any selection at all in its sudden "hare-brained scheme." Somewhat dubiously, the first leader in the Sunday Times concluded: "A government that is committed to comprehensive education has to prove it can make it work."

{The wheeze is the latest instalment of nonsense designed to produce what looks like an education policy to counter dumbing down but which never mentions Mental Age, IQ or the g factor. Education should result, for each child, in value-added improvement on what can be expected from the child's intelligence level. But this is the simple point that neosocialists must ignore for fear of upsetting Labour faithful. For 'THE UPS AND DOWNS OF FAST TRACK LEARNING -- A HISTORY in TgFNL and McDNL snapshots', see McDNL 26 i '99.}

Last week Mr Blunkett's dog, Lucy, was sick on the floor of the House of Commons -- whether in response to 'Excellence in Schools' is not known.

For Educalunacy USA, see later in this McDNL: 'Can you trust the test scores?' by Dan Seligman.

Child Abuse / Kids' Lib

Prince Andrew has associated himself with an NSPCC campaign backed by the Spice Girls to eradicate 'child abuse' over the next twenty years. Hopefully the worthies have read the advice of Dr Theodore Dalrymple -- the British doctor who reports on the vile lives led on a British council estate for which he is the medical practitioner. Today, says the G.P. (Independent on Sunday 21 iii '99, 'Man's inhumanity to child'), "The incompetence of even well disposed British parents is staggering." Parents buy their children video machines, designer trainers and mountain bikes but spend little time with children and know little about them. Surveys show that the majority of British six-year-olds now have their own TV sets in their own rooms. There, sobbing children are relegated to recover from their parents' drunken arguments. Parents commonly do not know whether their children can read or do read -- let alone what they read. And parents standardly take no interest in "the educational system -- itself a publicly funded form of abuse, at least in poor areas."

Neoliberal for Louisiana?

Last week, McDNL deemed David Duke a semitophobe who might just be curable. With a little more reading, he might be able to help Jews, Gentiles and Blacks alike choose for themselves the services and contracts they want -- notably in the world of state-funded 'education.'

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has filed to run for the congressional seat vacated by former House Appropriations Committee chairman, Bob Livingston. Duke, who has just published a book calling for an Aryan resurgence, told reporters he was confident that he could win the race against at least seven other candidates. The post is ``made for me,'' he said of the district in suburban New Orleans. ``It's 85 percent white.''
      Duke, a 50-year-old Republican who campaigns on a ``white rights'' platform, carried the district in an unsuccessful 1990 bid for the U.S. Senate and again in 1991 when he ran unsuccessfully for governor. At least six other Republicans, including former Gov. David Treen, and a Democrat, State Rep. Bill Strain, will run against Duke in the May 1 vote. The filing deadline was not until Friday, so more candidates could sign up.
      ….Duke's entry adds to the side-show quality of the election which includes a candidate named Monica Monica and Patrick Landry, 33, who identifies himself as a Christian virgin running on biblical principles.
      Duke has been repeatedly disavowed by national Republican leaders because of his racist views, but he is currently chairman of the St. Tammany parish Republican Committee.
      In his new self-published book, titled ``My Awakening,'' Duke denied that he is racist, but said ``races should co-exist peacefully...(with) optional separate homelands'' for minorities. He wrote that blacks are intellectually inferior to whites and that ``a physical revolution may be required someday to free our (white) people and secure our survival.''

The US media are now waking up to the fact that there are academic psychologists like Chris Brand and Glayde Whitney who are prepared to give David Duke credit on points where credit is due and to deplore hysterical 'anti-racism.' Florida's Tampa Tribune (21 iii '99, 'Professor's race writings raise hackles', Michael Fechter) carried the news that psychologist Glayde Whitney {a professor at Florida State University, former president of the Behavior Genetics Association, and stalwart McDNL supporter} wrote a Foreword to Duke's 1998 book, My Awakening.
In his Foreword, Whitney praises Duke's grasp of the academic literature on racial differences and -- while mentioning his own valued Jewish friends and colleagues -- further agrees with Duke that there is an official "Jewish agenda" supported by the 'bigoted and illiberal' Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith and aimed at criminalizing a wide range of 'hate speech crimes.' Whitney wrote: "Just as….a 'racist' is anyone who is winning an argument with a liberal, so an 'anti-Semite' has become anyone out of favour with the ADL."
The Tampa Tribune quotes FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte as having read some of Whitney's writing and saying 'I don't see anything I find agreeable.' However, professional 'anti-racist' Barry Mehler, director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism at Ferris State University in Michigan, said: "Don't make Whitney a martyr. There are enough of those out there.'' (Mehler's statement is really hysterical given that he's already highlighted Whitney on his webpage.) For his part, Glayde Whitney's position is clear: he finds Duke's book "powerful" and "to have the potential to raise tremendous controversy and change the very course of history"; but he writes of Duke, "politics is his realm, not mine."

A Florida State University professor believes former Klansman, now politician, David Duke uses good science to support a book some call a "white-supremacist diatribe." Glayde Whitney, a professor specializing in behavior genetics, has written a foreword to Duke's latest book, My Awakening, which calls for separate nations for blacks and whites and says blacks are inferior to whites.

Whitney, whose work is with mice, not humans, calls Duke's book "a painstakingly documented, academically excellent work of socio-biological-political history that has the potential to raise tremendous controversy and change the very course of history."

Duke is seeking the Louisiana congressional office previously held by Bob Livingston. The former Ku Klux Klan leader has said the 85-percent white district near New Orleans "is made for me."

Whitney, 59, said Monday he has no political agenda except to back scientific truth….

Sex Differences

'SUPERWOMEN' ATHLETES ARE A FUNDAY FICTION

Recently, the idea that women were catching up with men in athletics was mooted in the Funday Times [London], 14 iii '99; but McDNL's Chicago Correspondent has quite a different idea. (The Funday Times was the newspaper that in 1976 made out differential psychologist Sir Cyril Burt to have been a fraud.)

Your article "Superwomen athletes get set to make men also-rans" by Tom Robbins is almost 180 degrees dead wrong. As sports physiologist Dr. Stephen Seiler and I documented in our 31/12/97 article in America's National Review (www.nationalreview.com/31dec97/sailer123197.html), since 1988 the gender gap between male and female world class runners has not shrunk, but grown notably.
During the 1990's, in the 10 Olympic events where men and women run under identical conditions, 35 male world records have been broken, compared to only 6 for females. The sex difference in track medalists' times at the 1996 Olympics was the greatest since the 1972 Games. Why did women Olympic medalists run 0.6% slower in 1996 than in 1988? Largely because of better testing for artificial male hormones and the arrests of the East German steroidmeisters. Since women average only 1/10th as much muscle-building natural testosterone as men, they benefited more than men from the lax steroid testing in the Seventies and Eighties. Also, contrary to your writer's assumption that while women may not be able to compete with men in strength, they will equal men in endurance, the gender gap is actually slightly greater in the distance races than in the sprints.
The only thing accurate about the article is the view that women may eventually prove better than men at marathon swimming. But since that is one of the very few sports where a higher body fat percentage is an advantage (for buoyancy and insulation), that's the exception that proves the rule that women will never be able to compete against men in the great majority of self-propelled sports like track, football, and basketball.

Race and Evolution

A new DNA analysis is casting doubt on the popular notion that all modern humans descended from one small population of ancient Africans. This "Out of Africa" theory had gained support in recent years, as a string of genetic studies suggested that a single group of ancient, sub-Saharan people left traces of their genes in modern people -- implying that only this group succeeded in taking the final evolutionary leap to becoming modern humans. This new human species then migrated throughout world, replacing populations of "archaic" humans, such as Neanderthals. Or so the story goes.
But a few anthropologists have always questioned this tale, and this week the skeptics added new data to their cause, as population geneticist Jody Hey and anthropologist Eugene Harris of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, presented evidence that two human populations dating to at least 200,000 years ago left their genetic legacy in modern people. One group gave rise to modern Africans and the other to all non-Africans, Hey and Harris report in the 16 March Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To remain distinct, the two ancestral populations presumably lived in different places, which fits with a competing theory of human origins, called multiregionalism, in which modern human traits evolved in various populations and then were spread around the world by small groups of migrants who interbred with other populations. "It's important evidence," Henry Harpending, an anthropologist at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, says of the new study. "A lot of us thought [the question] was answered." And although Harpending, who has done genetic work supporting the Out of Africa scenario, doesn't support multiregionalism, he agrees that "if we follow the implications of [this work], then the Out of Africa hypothesis is wrong." ….Hey and Harris [used] DNA from six French, seven Chinese, five Vietnamese, one Mongolian, six Senegalese, three African Pygmies, three members of the Khosian tribe near Angola, and four South Africa Bantus. By assuming that the number of sequence differences between two haplotypes [of a gene on the X chromosome called PDHA1 which codes for a key enzyme in sugar metabolism] corresponds to the time since populations carrying them split apart, Harris and Hey built an evolutionary tree….

PS Science later gave a visual aid showing variants of PDHA1 found in Europe, China and south-west Africa. One variant shows no Eurasian-African overlap and is said to be 'fixed.' (An anthropologist who has previouly favoured 'out of Africa' theorizing', Henry Harpending of the University of Utah, believes the Hey & Harris finding could prove a real turning point.)

Music and Mastery

LOS ANGELES -- Playing the piano and an interactive computer game can help second-grade school children master math problems that children four years older have problems grasping, a new study says. ….a study from the University of California, Irvine has demonstrated that students' test scores soar with the help of musical and computer keyboards. In the study, a group of inner-city children used a newly developed computer game that poses visual math problems, and were also taught the basics of playing the piano. The two elements were then melded into the curriculum of their second-grade math class, helping them to grasp concepts such as fractions and proportional math, which involves visual problem-solving. On average, the 135 students at Los Angeles' 95th Street school scored 27 percent higher than other children in proportional math and fractions after just four months in the program. ``Proportional math is usually introduced during the sixth grade and has proved to be enormously difficult to teach to most children using (traditional) methods,'' said Dr. Gordon Shaw, who led the research. ….In a 1993 study, Shaw showed that college students scored higher in spatial-temporal reasoning tests after listening to a Mozart sonata. His new book, ``Music Enhances Learning: Keeping Mozart in Mind'' will be published in May.

{The earlier work of the California team, alleging IQ-boosting, was strongly criticized by researchers -- most recently by Christopher Chabris (see McDNL 4 viii '98 , McDNL 3 xi '98 and McDNL 24 xi '98.).}

Paedohysteria: the case of Mary Letourneau

Some points in McDNL's January 12 article on the Seattle female schoolteacher jailed for 'second degree rape' of a Samoan pupil are strongly contested by people close to Mary. Particularly, they deny she ever let an infant brother die in a swimming pool while baby-sitting for him. McDNL's factual material was drawn from the Sunday Times. The McDNL article has now been reposted with indications of the points at issue. Its conclusion remains the same: "The law that has jailed Mary Kay has made more victims than it has managed either to revenge or to protect." McDNL supports a plea in Seattle for judicial clemency to Mary Letourneau -- now separated from her six children as well as her teenage lover. To add your support, please email your name, postal address and email address to <cbrand@cycad.com>.

KALIMANTAN, Borneo (BBC World Service, 21 iii '99, 01:20; 22 iii '99, 01:25) -- Murder, rape, pillage and arson have been practised on a large scale in recent weeks by the Dayaks and Malays of West Kalimantan against a disliked tribe, the Madurese -- poor transmigrants brought in by Indonesia from overpopulated Java. The Dayaks have resorted to their historic tribal custom of head-hunting. On roads in Semelantan there have been indescribable scenes: Madurese heads have been displayed on spikes, Dayaks have danced openly waving the hearts, livers, genitals and other body parts of victims, and bodies have been roasted and eaten before watching journalists. Hundreds of Madurese have been killed in their homes or as they fled, and Indonesian troops have been attacked. {Famed in TgF NewsLetters for their aggression, penis pins and female-orgasm-inducing attachments -- first recorded by William McDougall from his visit to Borneo in 1898/9 -- the Dayaks have linked up with the Malays, across the religious divide, to take revenge on people they consider utterly upstart and unreliable. Once rescued from endemic warfare by the British, the Dutch and the Indonesian despot, General Suharto, the tribes of Borneo are possibly reverting to their pre-colonial ways. The last news of extensive mayhem to be carried by the ignoracist Western media was around Christmas 1996 (TgF NewsLetters 17 ii '97, PRIMITIVE REALISM: ETHNIC CLEANSING and SADO-MASOCHISM GALORE). In that period, estimates were that some 3,000 Madurese were killed by Land and Sea Dayaks. In McDougall's day, tribal competition had been sublimated into boat racing -- undertaken in giant craft each using 50 oarsmen and travelling as fast as is common in the Oxford vs. Cambridge annual Boat Race on the Thames.} PS The Times of 25 iii '99 provided a visual aid of the modern Dayak tribesman: the fashion rage is general nakedness combined with pajama bottoms, a forehead sweatband as worn for tennis in the West, a 4' sword, a 6' spear, a 10' pole and an automatic submachine gun with nightsights.

HOLLYWOOD -- The McDNL-favoured film 'Shakespeare in Love' won the majority of this year's Academy Awards, including the Oscar for BEST FILM. The divinely Saxon maiden (a little bony, but good oestrogen level and heart in the right place) Gwyneth Paltrow was judged BEST ACTRESS and promptly broke down in tears. The magnificent Dame Judi Dench received the BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS gong for the most-convincing-ever portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I as a wise old paedophile ooops bird, and Sir Tom Stoppard, receiving the BEST SCREENPLAY award, showed true British grit and assured the luvvies that he felt just like Gwyneth Paltrow underneath. 'Shakespeare in Love' is probably the perfect filmed romantic comedy: packed with in-jokes as well as many of Shakespeare's own lines and tasteful bonking, it bears endless replaying. {For more on Shakespeare, aka Edward de Vere, see McDNL Winter '98/9.}

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) -- The leading Black church minister Henry Lyons, who has been convicted of racketeering, says he will resign as president of the National Baptist Convention. The clergyman had been exposed after his wife had set fire to his $US700,000 love-nest.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) -- Paedohysteria -- Oklahoma City will pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit sparked when its police seized videotapes of the Oscar-winning movie "The Tin Drum'' and alleged the film was child pornography.

NEW YORK -- Mayor Giuliani had the embarrassment of having to arrest the former New York mayor as the latter protested with eleven other demonstrators against the street shooting by police of a 22-year-old unarmed Black youth. However, polls showed that, in any electoral contest between him and Hillary Clinton, Giuliani would have a walkover victory.

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton called on the international community to pursue a broad approach to debt relief that would result in forgiving $70 billions of debt mostly for African countries. Addressing ministers from 46 near-bankrupt and largely despotic Black African regimes, the President promised relief to states that signed up with the US empire and embarked on "strong reform" programmes.

TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) -- Race profiling -- Police gave $225,000 to a Black woman motorist, avoiding litigation as to why and how they had quizzed her about having a broken tail light. Police said Dorothy Cobbs, 52, had smelled of drink and been argumentative; but the woman claimed she had been stopped because of her race, sprayed with Mace and spat at.

LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles Times) -- Race Realism -- Stanford University researchers have found that excess weight, high blood pressure, fat-rich diets and other indicators tended to be more common among African American and Mexican American youths than among whites, and showed up earlier in life than researchers generally believed. At the same time, the 16% smoking rate among white teenage girls was four times that of Mexican American girls and eight times that of African American girls. {How such health miseries can all be attributed to global capitalism and White racism remains to be resolved….}

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court judges are continuing to hold out against pressures to appoint more Blacks to prestige jobs as clerks (who vet cases coming before the Court). The current term's crop of 34 clerks includes only one minority member -- a Hispanic woman -- and for the second year running, the Court hired no African-American clerks. Of the 428 clerks hired over the last few years by the current justices, only 7 have been black (USA Today). However, the judges are as hopeless as London's Metropolitan Police at explaining the basis for their practices; so papers like the New York Times (18 iii '99, 'Needed: Minority Clerks at the Court') attribute Black per caput under-representation in clerkships to "the clubby "feeder system" from top-tier law schools and judges that produces a nearly all-white coterie of high-caliber clerks."

SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California, struggling to keep doors open to minority students after a voter-mandated end to affirmative racism, is planning to by-pass the electorate's decision by offering admission to the top 4% of pupils from each California high school.

SOUTH AFRICA (Reuters) -- The top anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak has been found guilty of defrauding of some $US40,000 a trust set up to help child victims of apartheid, using money donated by U. S. singer Paul Simon. Boesak also defrauded the anti-apartheid-crusading Swedish Government of some $US500,000. Boesak was president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches but had to leave the church after exposure of his flamboyant lifestyle and affair with a TV showgirl. Nelson Mandela had appealed for funds for Boesak's legal defence. 20 other charges are pending. The African National Congress had tried hard to stop investigations into Boesak's affairs, resulting in allegations that South Africa is on the verge of descent into flagrant corruption and cronyism.

NEW YORK -- The world of boxing measurement (boxometrics?) was thrown into confusion by revelations that lady umpires of fights (to wit, the marginal Eugenia Williams) sometimes have their view of the ring occluded by journalists. Umpiring is thus 'a subjective process', an astonished world was told. So how do the judges achieve such spectacular agreement? (In the recent Lewis-Holyfield contest, all three judges awarded final marks in the 113-117 range. Three IQ tests that did so well would correlate at an astonishing .97 with each other and be considered highly objective.) It can only be presumed that many of Lewis and Holyfield's points were earned by such relatively objective criteria as 'having two arms', 'remembering to wear shorts', 'climbed into ring' etc. -- This would explain at once the good agreement of judges yet their manifest disagreement with each other, with everyone else, and with themselves once the fight was over, on the little matter of which boxer actually won the contest.

EDINBURGH -- Two policewomen who were upset when they had to deal with the Dunblane massacre are each claiming £UK400,000 for their stress and strain. Although other police and the parents of some of the murdered children are horrified, the policewomen will have their case heard at Edinburgh's Court of Session. They are no doubt inspired by the 14 South Yorkshire policemen who -- to the disgust of many relatives of deceased -- walked away with £1.2 million after 'trauma' following the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. {In the absence of proper contracts and exemption clauses, such nonsense can only increase. Presumably police will soon start claiming for the stress of allegations of institutional racism…}

LONDON (Times 18 ii '99) -- As the Labour government moves to rid England of what remains of its 'Advanced' Level examinations for 18-year-olds, a leading public {i.e. private} school has decided to have all its children examined abroad. 'A' levels have been considered elitist because they required two years fairly intense study and thus encouraged specialization. (Typically, pupils aiming for university entrance would take just four subjects. Specialization is dreaded by all educational 'liberals' in Britain, since specialization would mean kids could leave school and take jobs.) Faced with more changes that will involve children having to take several 'half'-A levels, Sevenoaks School in Kent has announced it will go over to the International Baccalaureate and leave Britain to its useless educationalists. Whether universities will bow the knee and accept the new 'A' level system remains to be seen -- though their cowardice over the past thirty years is not promising, as they have allowed the elite 'S' levels and Open Scholarship Examinations to be dumped.

LONDON -- A final House of Lords decision as to whether General Pinochet enjoys 'sovereign immunity' for his alleged crimes in Chile of 1973 is expected on Wednesday. The Observer (21 iii '99) predicts the ex-Head of State will not be immune from charges for his conduct after 1988, when Britain first made extra-territorial claims in its own anti-torture legislation.
{PS This was indeed the verdict of the UK's Law Lords. By 6-1 they agreed: (i) that in future anyone at all -- head of state though he may have been -- can be sent to Spain to be tried for murders, tortures, paedophilings, date-rapes, harassments, insensitivities or downloadings of no matter what vintage; (ii) that General Pinochet can only be sent to Spain to be tried for riding his bicycle without lamps after 1988; (iii) that Home Secretary Jack Straw must continue to pay their lordships' expenses while deciding for himself about extradition with the help of his own lawyers; (iv) that the British taxpayer can pay General Pinochet's hotel bills for another six months while further legal argument is heard and Spain is given more time to lodge other charges against the SeNator of Whatocaust denial, hate speech crime about Britons and Spaniards, and starting World War III in Kosovo.}

LONDON -- A Labour Government minister for education was asked on radio to multiply 6 by 9. It took him 14 seconds to produce the correct answer. (How long would it take two junior Conservative spokespersons? The answer is not known; but it hardly matters since no-one is listening to Conservatives anyway….)

* Sometimes the term 'neoliberalism' is used to refer to the free-market and de-nationalizing policies of ex-President Reagan (Republican) and Mrs Thatcher (Conservative) [e.g. http://www.igc.apc.org/envjustice/neolib.html] . However, these policies were essentially revived liberal policies -- revived from the nineteenth century.
Modern states' tax-and-spend policies did not really take off until 1914. From the 1830's, the 'Manchester School' of liberal economists had favoured a minimal role for the state in the economy; but such liberals eventually found themselves overwhelmed by European investments in empire and war. After 1918, the 'warfare' states became 'welfare' states and carried on taxing and spending. (In Britain, the Liberals had also split on how to solve the Irish Question. Only in Australia, Belgium and Holland did big Liberal parties survive -- becoming moderate conservatives without much radical thrust.) Eventually, around 1980, continuing 'statism' resulted in the rise in the West of the New Right as conservatives adopted classic liberal economic policies -- often called 'libertarian' [e.g. A. Seldon, ed., 1985, The New Right Enlightenment, Sevenoaks, Economic & Literary Books, with an introduction by Frederick Hayek, 'Socialism, liberalism and the young']. Today, Western countries spend around 40% of their citizens' incomes. Though that percentage is lower in English-speaking countries, there is no general momentum for further reductions. Anyhow, the term 'liberal' has actually long been used in the USA to cover 'soft left' policies of US Democrats: these policies favour state spending and redistributing cash and state services to the 'disadvantaged.'
By NEOLIBERALISM here is meant the introduction of user choice into every aspect of state welfare activity. NEOLIBERALISM is concerned not to reduce the role of the state but to open up state services to choices by ordinary people -- whether as parents, pupils, patients or marital partners. NEOLIBERALISM is thus intended to answer NEOSOCIALISM, the Blair/Clinton/?Schroeder version of socialism which sets aside control of the economy and concentrates on putting men, racists and 'paedophiles' in prison and giving state jobs directly to the new 'disadvantaged' (the 'minorities'). Just as the neosocialist Third Way (in Germany, Neue Mitte) avoids classical arguments about economics by essentially accepting capitalism's 1989 victory in the Cold War, the neoliberal Fourth Way also accepts liberal capitalism and focuses on how the state's non-economic power is to be used. Whereas neosocialists favour a range of authoritarian policies (including now almost 2 million prisoners in the USA -- a half of them Black), neoliberals think that problems of crime, health, education, family life and future generations would be solved better by individuals making their own choices and contracts -- and funding them by state-assisted insurance.

{For an article developing the idea of the Fourth Way, see 'Beware Conservatives!' -- published in McDNL 7 vii '98 and in Finanstidningen (Sweden's Financial Times) on 21 November 1998.}

Psychology and Propagation

Extraverts are evolutionarily equipped for sex and propagation right now; whereas introverts hold off and wait for higher-quality opportunities for procreation. Such was the idea of Jung, who introduced the distinction of extraversion versus introversion. In recent years, the London School's Phil Rushton (University of Western Ontario) has been in hot water for the idea that Mongoloids (North Asians) use their brains whereas Negroids (Black Africans) natively prefer to use their brians. Jung too was criticized for being a race realist -- as also for his convoluted German prose that made him hard to understand.

Jung was much admired by William McDougall, who visited him after his 1914-18 military service to learn dream analysis. Jung was a gifted Gentile psychiatrist who had been put in charge of Switzerland's top lunatic asylum, the Berghölzli Hospital, in 1908. Unlike Freud, Jung never needed to earn a living from his writings. Thus, from the earliest years, he adopted the prose style of the German professoriate. (This style places high demands on short term memory, since several lines of writing must often be stored while the reader waits for the main verb to arrive.) Around 1908, Freud (b. 1856) looked to Jung (b. 1875) as a young man who was well placed to lead the psychoanalytic movement. However, Jung (influenced by his young mistress and patient, Anna Spielrein, whom he possibly shared with Freud) was coming to believe there was something more than sex -- at least for introverts. Jung was particularly faulted after 1945 for having made race-realist suggestions and remarks considered unduly critical of the Jewish race.

'Brian' is an affectionate term for the penis (cf. Dr Johnson, John Thomas, Roger) deriving from a mis-print in Phil Rushton's 1994 Race, Evolution and Behavior in which Whites and Blacks were said to differ in "brian size."

Phil Rushton hypothesizes a major broad dimension of human personality differences. This involves the relative size and productivity of, respectively, the organs of generation and cogitation. There is, supposedly, a trade-off between sexual (r) and intellectual/resource-oriented (K) specialization. "Succinctly summarized," writes Rushton, "more brains, fewer eggs, more K." Rushton sees extraversion as being one facet of r-type tendencies. For a review by Chris Brand, see Phil Rushton's r - K factor.

Evolutionary Femilunacy

Ever since 'sociobiology' of the 1970's furnished rationales for human sex differences, feminists have been restive with the licence apparently given to male promiscuity and aggression. In the 1990's, they were horrified to learn that female promiscuity and aggression do actually exist but take different forms -- with females having more babies per copulation with their exciting (indeed, orgasm-inducing) extramarital partners and having a greater interest than men in money ooops security. Now, trying to gain the evolutionary upper hand for Wyoming, scientific journalist Natalie Anger provides a feminist-slanted evolutionary psychology. In Woman: An Ultimate Geography (Virago, pp. 398, £UK18), Angier scorns Darwinian "evo psychos" and "hardcores" and argues:

Well, what is the evidence for these ground-breaking ideas? Precisely zero! "Not the slightest" for 1, says TLS. "No fossils" for 2: we don't even know if the human menopause predated the increase in brain size, let alone whether the two traits are causally linked. "Data lacking" for 3 -- reminding us that ideas can be "appealing without necessarily being correct. "In the end, Angier's frantic attempt to buttress woman's rights with woman's bodies serves mainly to demonstrate, at enormous cost to the reader, that journalists who report science are not necessarily able to demonstrate the difference between good and bad science."

This America

McDNL's Correspondent from Texas provides a snapshot of Dallas (pop. 1 million, with a further 2 million in its metropolitan area with Fort Worth).

Back in the 50s and 60s, Dallas was a thriving and safe city that was nearly 90% Caucasian.       Times have changed. The city is still 60% white, but the growing numbers of non-whites have had a devastating influence on the Dallas school system. The influx of unruly and largely uneducable black and Hispanic children has reduced the school system to a travesty. Black and Hispanic gangs constantly battle each other on school grounds, and many schools are in a constant lock-down state to prevent gang violence. Fist fights between black and Hispanic teachers are not rare at all.
      Yes, I said teachers, not students. Test scores have plunged to an abysmal level. Truancy is rampant and student violence has reached virtually uncontrollable levels. Naturally, whites have deserted the system. Those whites who can afford it send their kids to private schools. Those who cannot afford it leave the city. The school system is now less than 10% white.
      As whites have lost interest in the school system, blacks and Hispanics have filled the void with alacrity. My understanding is that there is not a single white left on the school board and virtually all of the high level administrative positions in the system are filled by either blacks or Hispanics. Results are predictable. Blacks and Hispanics dislike each other with an intensity matched only by their common dislike of whites. They fight with each other all the time and about anything and everything. For conventional, middle-class white folks like me, descriptions of school board meetings are difficult to believe. Remember Lewis Carroll? Imagine a monthly mad tea party where all the participants are in black- or brown-face. The two sides constantly accuse each other of racism. Shouting matches, shoving matches and threats of violence are common. Very little business is done.
    Now that the stage is set, I can titillate you with recent events. In 1997, Hispanic board members flexed their muscles and hired as the school superintendent, a Hispanic lady named Yvonne Gonzales. When the board voted to hire her, black board members not only refused to vote at all but stalked out of the meeting in high dungeon. Quickly, it became clear that Ms Gonzales was an assertive and formidable lady. She announced that the system was rife with incompetence and corruption and that she intended to do something about it. She fired or demoted more than a dozen high level administrators, all black. Several were sent to jail. Naturally, the Dallas black community was in an uproar over her strong arm tactics. She even asked the FBI to step in and help her weed out corruption. Yet once the Feds get involved, you don't know where they will begin their investigation or where they will end it. The FBI discovered that Ms Gonzales was no stranger to peculation herself. It turned out that she had appropriated several thousand dollars of school money for her personal use. The result is that right now, Ms Gonzales peers out at us through iron bars.
      It has been sixteen months since Ms Gonzales entered the slammer and still the Dallas school system has no new superintendent. The black members reject all Hispanic candidates, and Hispanic members return the favor by rejecting black candidates. Naturally, no one on the board would seriously consider a white candidate.

Crime x Race Profiling

Defending US police against accusations of 'race profiling', Jackson Toby, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, has reminded east-coast super-sensitives of some faxalife (Wall Street Journal, 11 iii '99, ''Racial profiling' doesn't prove cops are racist'):

Playground Profiling

LONDON (Times 17 iii '99) -- Following the revelation that Chinese pupils are 30 times less likely than Black children to be excluded for discipline problems from British schools (McDNL 16 iii '99; Times 12 iii '99, 'Playgrounds for political correctness', George Bridges), several Times correspondents doubted that this result could be attributed to the 'institutional racism' of schools. John Whittle, of Preston, Lancashire, sent the government a simple challenge: that its official statements on racism are untrue when they were not nonsensical. Certainly the racial difference is not unique to Britain,* as Phil Rushton has been pointing out for the past fifteen years.

*  COSTA RICA -- From the capital, San José [founded 1738], the 1993 figures for the percentage of children in trouble for school disobedience or violence according to ethnic group were as follows (Arthur Hu, http://www.leconsulting.com/arthurhu/index/edreform.htm) (overall district % in brackets):
Black               12.0%       (5.0% )
AmIndian           1.0%       (0.6%)
Hispanic           30.0%     (18.8%)
White               32.0%     (28.7% )
PacIslander        1.0%       (1.5%)
Asian/PacIsl     24.0%     (46.9% )
Filipino               6.0%     (11.8% )
Asian                17.0%     (33.6% )

Race, Religion and IQ

A league table listing the intelligence of the brighter religious-ethnic groups
in the USA has been published by researcher Arthur Hu (http://www.leconsulting.com/arthurhu/index/edreform.htm).

Wh Unitarian       1,745                            1073
Wh Judaism       25,600                         1030
Al Quaker           1,009                        1029
As Hindu             4,138                       1029
Al Judaism        27,374                           1026
As Presbyterian   3,195                           1022
Al Hindu           4,741                              1012
As No Pref         17,987                           1001
Wh No Pref        99,076                         979
Al Mennonite        1,063                          974
As Methodist       1,108                          973
Wh Mormon        6,400                       972
Wh Episcopal       19,555                         970
Af Unitarian           64 [NB small N]        966
Al No Pref        137,305                          963
Wh Luth Missouri 8,038                       963
Wh Un Church of Christ 7,066                 962
Al Luth Missouri     8,624                        959
Al Episcopal         22,109                          957
Wh Presbyterian      32,019                       956
Wh Anglican        1,765                         956
Al Presbyterian       37,353                         955
Al Un Church of Christ 7,826                    951
Wh U Methodist      23,470                      949
Al Mormon            7,594                   948

{It is good to see intelligent support for Hinduism, the world's only race-sex-and-IQ-realistic religion that has kept a substantial society going for any length of time. Supporters of Hinduism in India are usually thought to have a singularly wide range of IQs. Despite centuries of subjugation to the Muslims and the British, Indian Hindus now have nuclear weapons.}

Educalunacy USA

Because IQ cannot be mentioned, schools cannot be assessed for whether they improve on the level of attainment that would be expected from children's ages and IQs. As a result, educationalists and politicians can talk up attainment assessments in any schools they like -- whether those that 'do better than last year' (thus giving a pat on the back to many basically hopeless schools) or 'do better than other schools' (thus favouring schools that select their entries -- whether by children's merits or by parents' mortgages [enabling them to live in an area near a 'good' school]). Thankfully, some in the USA can recall what happened in the USSR when firms were judged by the official records of their produce…

"[The national media have generally] gone gaga over George W. Bush's record in Texas. "His secret elixir is education," said a headline over a long, gushing Time magazine story in November, which dealt lengthily with the rising proportion of children who had been passing the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (a battery of reading, writing and math tests).
[In Texas itself,] the media have done far less gushing about the TAAS scores, which determine whether schools will be rated "exemplary," "recognized," "acceptable," or -- big trouble -- "low-performing." Newspapers around the state have recently reported hints of widespread cheating on the test, with suspicious erasures now being investigated in Houston, Dallas and elsewhere. More heavily emphasized by the Texas media is the fact that, with so much riding on TAAS, a lot of classrooms are now dominated by "teaching to the test" -- drilling kids over and over in the skills measured by the test while cutting back on everything else. The test heavily emphasizes "the basics," which means the drilling is arguably of some value to kids who never mastered the multiplication tables but a bit of a bore for a lot of other kids. A long report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram a year ago left you thinking that the endless drills are also a bore to the teachers. But Mike A. Moses, head of the Texas Education Agency, is unrepentant about teaching to the test, which he encourages. The state now makes available test-taking "study guides," designed to help students get the biggest possible test-score bang for whatever achievement bucks they bring to the table.

Another favoured method of boosting attainment scores is simply to exclude mentally subnormal, borderline, and illiterate children from testing. Fair enough? So why not exclude any truants, or any pupil of merely below-average ability? One Texas school exempted 75% of its (mostly Hispanic) students from the test.

Social Anthropology

(Nature c. 12 iii '99, M. Konner. Review of D. Freeman, The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of her Samoan Research, Westview, £UK16-50.)

Fifteen years after Margaret Mead's exposure, anthropologist Melvin Konner, of Emory University, attempts a damage limitation exercise.
      It was in 1983 that a New Zealand anthropologist, Derek Freeman first denounced Mead's idyllic picture of sexually liberated yet disease-free Samoa (in her Coming of Age in Samoa) as having been based on little more than her own left-liberated-lesbian enthusiasm for fantasies with which the islanders had teased her (Margaret Mead and Samoa, Harvard University Press). Now Freeman has put together a more detailed account of how Mead's besotted adoption of Boasian social-environmentalist principles led to her naïve interviewing of Samoans. But Konner cannot be bothered with what Freeman's book is about. Instead his concern is to defend the indefensible as best he can even at this far-too-late stage. This can no longer involve disputing Freeman's main argument as to what really happened on Samoa -- an argument that Konner admits is "well developed." Rather, the defence has to shift to a higher plane.
      So other researchers differ from Mead and "report new observations and different theories"? "So?" says Konner -- as if the latest approximation to truth can be of no interest to an anthropologist.
      After all, "it is difficult to be objective", says Konner. "So?" -- So one might as well give up and live off fairy tales?
      Anyway, says Konner, Mead was not so important to the Boasian cause. Skinner, Dewey, Talcott Parsons and Malinowski were all more influential. -- Pull the other one, Melvin, it's got bells on! For many years, it was Mead's work that percolated through to social psychology texts as showing the importance of environment, the malleability of sex roles and the lack of sense in male jealousy and mate-guarding of female sexual partners!
      The fact is that Mead was a figurehead to social anthropologists -- and especially to feminazism-fancying females -- in opposing, as Konner calls them, ethnocentric psychology, colonialism and racist theories. Mead's downfall was as devastating for social anthropology as was that of Sir Cyril Burt for differential psychology. Yet whereas Burt's dubious data were quickly replaced, nothing has ever replaced Mead's flawed testimony to the causes she held dear.

{Science also carried a Mead-backing review by M. Orans ('Mead misrepresented', 12 iii). Orans is keen to say that, in the small print of her thesis of Samoa, Mead exempted from her claims of sexual libertinism the daughters of Samoan aristocrats, girls cared for by Christian missionaries and 'young adolescent girls' -- by this meaning girls under 18. That's certainly quite a list of exemptions. But Orans admits: "Mead's generalizations and evocative expressions leave one with an impression of more permissive female adolescent sexuality than actually existed or is consistent with her detailed statements."}

Human Personality

The world's leading Shakespeare critic, America's Harold Bloom, has now published his major work Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human (Fourth Estate, £UK25-00). A central claim of Bloom's is that Shakespeare was the first to have identified human personality as we understand it today. Essentially, says Bloom, since Shakespeare we recognize that a personality -- and certainly one that is to be sufficiently engaging to hold a reader's attention in its own right -- is a self-creation that results from the overhearing of an internal dialogue. Bloom calls the operation, which presumably requires at least the three Freudian agencies within personality [id, ego and superego], "a dialogue of one." According to Bloom, the Shakespearean characters who best exemplify Shakespeare's teasing out of such a process of self-listening and self-development are his Cleopatra, Falstaff, Hamlet, Iago, Macbeth and Rosalind -- Bloom's own personal favourites, as it happens.

{It is true to say that, by comparison, there is something irretrievably unidimensional, or at best bi-dimensional, and 'cardboard', even corny, about the individual characters of Greek literature and the Bible. Bloom's testimony to Shakespeare as a psychologist must sit along with Freud's own and invite serious reflection. For more on Shakespeare [aka Edward de Vere (1550-1604), the Earl of Oxford] see McDNL Winter 1998/9.}

Psychopathology and Genius

(Sylvia NASAR, 1999, A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., Faber, £UK18-00.)

In 1994, the 'snobbish, handsome, egocentric' playboy-mathematician John Nash, of Princeton University, shared a Nobel Prize for Economics. (He had contributed to games theory.) Now his remarkable sex life has been recorded -- including homosexuality, a mistress for whose child by him he did nothing, and his delightful wife Alicia, the beautiful daughter of San Salvadorean parents (Times Literary Supplement 12 iii '98). Still more striking than his considerable genital development [to judge by a picture of him in bathing shorts, posing for an admiring Alicia] was his plunge into mental illness. "In 1959, when Alicia was pregnant with their son, Nash fell victim to paranoid schizophrenia. The illness plagued him for the better part of thirty years and led to several episodes of involuntary incarceration in mental hospitals." Evidently the good will of Alicia and Nash's colleagues were up to the task of keeping him within academia for at least some of the time. Now the couple's son, too, has schizophrenia.

{The eccentricities of the brilliant mathematician Paul Erdös were considered in McDNL 25 viii '98, 'NO SEX, PLEASE, I'M INTO MATHEMATICS.'}

Edinburgh LUniversity

The philosopher whose name has been most used over the past generation to support relativism and to rubbish science is undoubtedly Thomas Kuhn. Today, sporadic efforts are made by Kuhn himself and supporters to deny relativism on his part, or any belief that science is intrinsically irrational.
There are many points that can be highlighted in such arguments; not least that Kuhn gave hostages to fortune by announcing approximations to be merely useful fictions. (Since most social and behavioural science is nothing but approximation, it is thereby tipped straight into the waiting maws of constructivists and kindred spirits who want all social truths to be considered as nothing but the extravagant pronouncements of aristocrats, racists or patriarchs.) However, participants in the fight to preserve some integrity for Kuhn all agree on one matter: his relativistic penchant must at least be distinguished from "the excesses of Feyerabend and Edinburgh's sociologists" (New York Review of Books, 18 iii '99, Alex Levine [Philosophy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA]).

{For the constructivist/idealist and behaviourist/empiricist positions in opposition to IQ realism, see The g Factor (Wiley DePublisher, 1996) -- especially the Introduction and Epilogue.}

Slavery

Whereas Westerners are meant to beat their breasts about their ancestors' enslavement of Blacks two centuries ago -- prior to Anglo-Saxons becoming the first people in history to make slavery and slave trading illegal -- slavery continues in Black Africa today. It is organized by the Berbers of Mauritania and the Muslims of the Sudan without the wonderful caring Western media bothering much. For details from the U. N. and similar bodies, see http://www.channel1.com/AASG/slavery_index.html.

Debating Point

The Awakening

Third Way

The time draweth near for a new attempt to explain neosocialism. Starting in April, Prime Minister Tony Blair's tame sociologist, Anthony Giddens (director of the London School of Economics) is to make a stab in the 1999 Reith Lectures -- commemorating the BBC boss who had the idea that the BBC should occasionally allow a top academic to have his say. Certainly Giddens is not thought to have any ringing soundbites about 'rolling back the frontiers of the state' or producing 'freedom from want.' Nor does he make any of the exciting demands of neoliberals -- for polygamy, self-chosen medical insurance, grammar schools ooops fast track learning, free speech and Kiddies Lib. Giddens is best known at the LSE for his lunchtime chat sessions with students, where he pulls up his shirt sleeves, uses a pop-star-style hand-held microphone and urges 'Call me Tony!' -- Just like Cabinet sessions at No. 10. Giddens is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club ('Spurs').

Real Women's Page

Scruffy Cambridge madwoman Germaine Greer has had the boot well applied to her rump by top columnist and McDNL heroine Melanie Phillips. Reviewing GG's new book, The Whole Woman, MP points out that the author of The Female Eunuch who once inspired 'women's liberation' is now opposed to abortion, washing machines and most forms of sexual freedom.
GG has had a loveless life, observes MP, and is plainly a "mixed-up, unhappy and frustrated person." A key problem is that she has never had children or read any McDougall, so has no appreciation of maternos. "Greer cannot understand how, when a woman becomes a mother, her whole centre of gravity shifts," writes MP. Thus GG fails to understand why many women are perfectly happy with lower-paid jobs: simply, they are keener on their children than lesbians and ideological feminists will ever see. {Indeed, few women will tell their husbands how keen they are on their children -- especially in days when they have so many of the former and so few of the latter.} Maternos is the key to women, reckons the wise MP: "The unisex androgynous utopia is a myth."
As if to compensate for her own lack of maternal productivity, GG now supports the efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to pay girls to have the babies they might otherwise have aborted. In the past two years, 100 births have been the result of this policy in Scotland, according to the Catholic leaders. No wonder the Guardian's columnist Decca Aitkenhead joined MP in writing off whole passages of GG as 'mad' and 'untrue.' Real women don't want any old baby; and since 1967 in Britain they have demonstrated in their millions their preference to rid themselves of some of the pregnancies that they regrettably contract. They are very fussy about what they want -- and very loving to what they get. GG understands neither of these aspects of female psychology.

Boy Bagger Mrs Joan Isaac, 52, has been appearing in a Swansea court along with her ex-husband of twenty-two years, Wayne Isaac, 45, and her new lover, Antony Edwards, 37. Bubbly blonde Joan, who was once Horsewoman of the Year and has been presented with cups by the Queen, became disillusioned with her ageing farmer hubby and fell for dashing huntsman Antony (actually employed as a huntsman with the Banwen Miners {sic} Hunt in Wales). Soon the lovers were bonking, and the men were fighting all round the house and stables, and the servants never stopped gossiping at the local Duck and Drake. Now both men have been fined. Joan has expressed her relief that neither has had to go to prison. "When you fall in love, that's it," she said. Her friends told newsies that, with Joan's personality, life was always a bundle of fun when she was around. PaedoScores 7 and 15.

"The low waist to hip ratios often seen during the 19th century were artificially achieved through clothing: corsets, bustles, and the like. This worked well when the center of popular cultural power was in cold-weather cities like Paris and London, but in the 20th Century as control over the images that shape lives (and bodies) migrated toward sunny Hollywood, women were forced to alter their bodies rather than their (increasingly scanty) clothes. The little red swim suit worn on "Baywatch," for instance, is notorious for offering no padding, shaping, or support whatsoever to the women who wear it."

Babe Bagger

The reclusive U. S. novelist J. D. Salinger (author of Catcher in the Rye), 80, now reputed to have a cache of new novels in his safe (Sunday Times 21 iii '99), still has with him his ginger-haired companion of the last twenty years, a lissome wench who looks as if she has hardly seen 40 summers. At 35, Salinger married 19-year-old Claire Douglas (who bore him two children before the couple's divorce in 1967). Then, at 50, Salinger had a fling with the 18-year-old Joyce Maynard. A secret of Salinger's success with women is perhaps that he hangs on to his money -- dressing as a garage mechanic, eating only vegetarian foods, and never dining in restaurants (only in their kitchens). PaedoScores: 16, 32, and c. 40 -- Grand Total c. 88.

{For previous entries, see McDNL 16 ii '99. Especially strong candidates for overall winner are currently Woody Allen (PaedoScore 43), Tony Curtis (PaedoScore 51), Nelson Mandela (PaedoScore 55) and Jean-Paul Sartre (PaedoScore c. 50). Each entry has its own special merits. For example, Allen's involves the girl who was youngest at the beginning of the relationship. However, Salinger has a strong claim for overall Grand Total of babe-bagged years; and a high-quality claim in that his Joyce Maynard was once said described, after featuring as a cover girl, to be "an Ivy League Lolita, a nymphet with soul and a pixie charm that virtually tap-danced off the page" (McDNL 1 ix '98).}

Weaker Sex

Asked which sex was the stronger, Paddy replied: 'Sure, 'tis the woman -- for she lacks the man's weakness for the weaker sex.'

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS UNDER FIRE IN SERBIA
-- but Henry Kissinger, Lord Healey, Lord Carrington, David Duke, Alex Salmond, Sir Edward Heath, Tony Benn, Professor Norman Stone and Chris Brand say STOP THE BOMBING!

IQ PSYCHOLOGIST UNDER FIRE IN FLORIDA
-- Guess who defends him?

ANYONE CAN BE TRIED ANYWHERE FOR ANYTHING, NO MATTER HOW LONG AGO, SAY U.K. NEOSOCIALIST LAW LORDS -- while largely exempting General Pinochet

Multicultural Warfare

BERLIN (BBCR4UK 24 iii '99) --  As Nato's long-running bluff was called and 400 warplanes began bombing the Serbs, who had been on Britain's side in two world wars, Prime Minister Blair announced his "total resolve" to achieve a "final solution" to the problem.
    What was the problem that was pitting neosocialist against Model-T socialist and Saxon against Slav? "To prevent a humanitarian disaster," said Augustus Blair, speaking from Unter den Linden.
    British philosophers pondered how the Augustus would ever know how his and his Caesar's war aims had been achieved -- for Nato's speciality is in high-tech warfare rather than in the low-tech variety used in the ethnic rivalries of Serbs and Kosovo's Albanian Muslims over the past twenty years. The latter pondered how Nato's 'prevention' involved not a thin red line of British, American or German troops but actually the withdrawal of the United Nations' smartly turned-out military monitors in their gleaming 17-gear, 16-cylinder landrovers with stereo and all the trimmings from Kosovo to Macedonia where 10,000 Nato troops (4,500 of them British and furious) had been assigned to sit things out. Despite years of creating a multicultural safe haven for ex-Yugoslavia's Muslims in Sarajevo, Nato was not advising Kosovo's Muslims to avail themselves of this facility; nor were the Kosovars advised to retreat towards dirt-poor Albania (from the Mao-style communism of which they had once sought escape in liberal Yugoslavia).

LONDON (BBCR4UK 26 iii '99; Times 26 iii '99; Guardian 26 iii '99; et seq.) --  In Parliament, Sir Peter Tapsell (Conservative) spoke of the Serbs as one of the great fighting peoples of Europe. The bombing of Serbia was strongly criticized by such an archetypally rightist politicians as Alan Clark [of Memoirs] (Conservative) ("The Kosovo Liberation Army are gangsters indistinguishable from any warlord in Mogadishu"), Lord David Owen (Social Democrat) ['Doctor Death'], Lord Denis Healey [of Eyebrows] (Labour), and little Lord Peter Carrington (Conservative, urbane division) -- the latter calling Nato's position "a terrible mess" -- and by Britain's senior leftist MPs, ex-Lord Loony ooops Tony Benn (Labour) and Tam Dalyell [of The Binns, and definitely not the Falklands]. The eminent British historian, Norman Stoned (formerly Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford), wrote in to the Times from a bar ooops his new academic home in Turkey to condemn the bombing of Serbia as "very dangerous" and "surreal" {suggesting that he might have to put in for his next appointment in Greece....}; and from America the voice of Henry Kissinger was similarly critical. The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland said the bombing was "making the world a less cosy place for dictators"; and the paper's leading article said "It's a test for our generation" to which (apparently) a welcoming response should be given. There had apparently been "an outrageous reduction in the liberties of the people of Kosovo." But the Times remarked the sombre and sincere reservations expressed from many quarters in Parliament about the bombing of Serbia. Only Britain's Liberal MPs were wholeheartedly in favour of Nato's attack -- their nearly expired leader Mr Paddy Pantsdown wanting Nato to set up a fully independent Kosovo; though few MPs were willing to be critical while British troops were in action. In a national broadcast on radio and TV, the Opposition leader, Mr William Hague, stressed the entitlement of troops to be given 'clear leadership and clear objectives', knowing full well that it was these ingredients that were conspicuously missing from Augustus Blair's plan (or from that of the USA, where Ms Albright is said privately to seek nothing less than the overthrow of Mr Milosevic).
      From Belarus, supremo Arantol Barankevich called for the psychiatric examination of "the main military criminal and sex maniac, Bill Clinton." (Mr Milosevic has apparently been examined and treated already, by war criminal Dr Radovan Karadzic of the breakaway Republika Srpska. Both Milosevic's parents had committed suicide.) Meantime, low-tech war in Kosovo continued. Apparently one favourite word that expresses the Serb psyche is inat (expressing supreme obstinacy and negativism); and another, according to a Serb novelist and former Yugoslavian prime minister, is one that makes a Serb's eyes light up -- noz (knife). In Macedonia (where the 2 million population contains half a million 'ethnic Albanians' and there are also some 40,000 Kosovo-Albanian refugees), the Christian majority was furious at the possibility of Nato's intervention leading to a 'Greater Albania' uprising. "Die Hooligans" read the message painted on the wall of the British Council's office in Skopje as 20,000 Macedonians demonstrated at the US embassy. In Athens, 15,000 protesters burned American flags, hurled stones at the US embassy, and battled with police who fired tear gas into the crowd.
    27 iii '99   As evidence mounted of the bombs failing to prevent Serbian ethnic cleansing, indeed of them speeding up such cleansing, Augustus Blair denied there was any such failure of Nato's policy. Kosovans should be protected, he thought, because they were "fellow human beings" -- prompting a question as to how he would describe the Serbs. It turned out that the Nato Supreme Commander, Wesley Clark, had been, like Mr Clinton, a student in Oxford in the 1960s: he studied politics, philosophy and economics and would thus have overlapped in lectures with Chris Brand -- though he did not apparently know Mr Clinton at that time. The Times complained Nato was losing the initiative as well as much good will and urged it to "wrest back control of the political territory"(whatever that might be after hundreds of bombing sorties and launches of Cruise and Tomahawk missiles, and after Russia had broken off diplomatic relations with the USA, the UK, France and Germany and begun reactivating its nuclear missiles). Other pro-bombing papers were: most of the tabloids, with just a little wobble to be seen in the centre-right Daily Mail, plus the Guardian. By contrast, the Daily Telegraph and Financial Times had reservations. Several modern Russian warships, part of the Black Sea fleet, left port and sailed towards the Adriatic, for "exercises."
    28 iii '99  Though most British Sunday newspapers gave subdued consent to the attack on Serbia, even the left-wing Observer said its support was "reluctant" and the centrist Independent on Sunday said that the best way to support British troops was to bring them home at once. The troops were being risked to save politicians' faces, said the IoS. Nato admitted its first loss of a plane in the conflict -- a F117 Stealth Nighthawk Fighter which had cost $US40 million to build. The Yugoslavian Army claimed to have shot down "at least 16" Nato planes. A moving BBC tape from a lady in Belgrade (26 iii) told of shortages of water, electricity and newsprint and of "the whole city looking as if it is in flames." Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath (Conservative) and former British Ambassador to the United Nations, Sir Nicholas Henderson, said they were unhappy about the attack and the terms under which it had been initiated -- outwith the Nato Charter as these were. The Russian nationalist LDPR party said it had signed up thousands of volunteers, from Moscow to Vladivostock, in just the first two days of its drive to help Serbia. In Athens, riot police used tear gas to disperse an estimated 15,000 demonstrators in front of the United States embassy. In London, 1,000 demonstrated against the bombing. Defying Nato's attack, Serb forces forged ahead with the ethnic clearing of half a million women, old men and children from Kosovo into Albania and Macedonia. (Able-bodied young male Kosovars had already withdrawn, apparently to join the ranks of the Kosovan Liberation Army -- in hiding since the beginning of the Nato strikes.) Terrence Taylor, assistant director at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said that cracks were appearing in the Nato alliance. British Defence Minister George Robertson promised to bring to justice for war crimes the Serbian commanders who had ordered what Robertson called "ethnic extermination" in Kosovo.
    29 iii '99 (CFMR 21:00) Breaking Britain's all-party consensus about bombing the Serbs, the Scottish National Party's leader, Alex Salmond, in a nation-wide broadcast address, compared the action to Hitler's bombing of London and Glasgow's Clydebank, called it "of dubious legality" and "unpardonable folly", and said it would only stiffen Serbian resolve. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook deplored the speech.

{Ironically, the peoples of Yugoslavia were exposed to multicultural exercises for forty years before Marshal Tito's country broke up along the same lines of tension as had existed in 1914. Whether neosocialist multiculturalism will prove more satisfactory remains to be seen. Multiracialist idealism may not be the whole of the story: some reports say $US14 trillion in recoverable oil has recently been located in Kosovo (http://www.truthinmedia.org/). The enthusiasm of Nato member Greece for a Turkish- and Nato-backed swathe of Muslim Communists to its north remained officially unknown, though Greece did not commit any aircraft to Nato. At present, the new Middle East line-up seems to be (according to Middle East Quarterly editor Daniel Pipes):
Syria, Iran, Greece, Palestine Authority, Libya, Muslim Lebanon, Turkish Kurds (PKK), Iraq, Tajikistan, Armenia, Serbia and probably Russia and China
versus
Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Chechnya and probably Nato and India.
The Kurds are divided; the Saudi Arabians and Egyptians undecided; the position of Pakistan and Afghanistan complicated because the Taliban are the sworn enemies of Iran.}

Glayde Whitney's Week

Statement from FSU Psychology, 25 iii '99 -- failing to say a word in favour of free speech, of academic tenure, of the importance of students being exposed to both sides of questions, or of the good service given the Department over the years by Professor Whitney:

From Professor John Furedy (Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto and Board Member and Past President, Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship) to Glayde Whitney:

Interviewed on US television (NBC 28 iii '99), David Duke -- the source of Glayde Whitney's problems -- was slated for criticizing the bombing of Dresden [which would certainly have been a war crime if Germany had won the war] and for finding race-hate passages in the Talmud [which he duly read out -- while his interviewer struggled to cut in with equally unpleasant passages from Mein Kampf]; but Duke defended politely, and especially stressed the agreement of Louis Farrakhan to the idea of a separate voluntary homeland for US Black people. He was also asked about Serbia and said:

Educational Selection

England is being invited by its Labour Government to embark on demolishing its last 163 grammar schools -- state-funded schools that select their intake by ability. These schools make up 5% of the total of state secondary schools in England & Wales. In 1969 there were 1,000 grammar schools, one third of the total. Now the Government says they must become 'comprehensive schools.' (In comprehensive schools, currently, 10% of children can be selected by "aptitude" for "technology, modern foreign languages, the performing arts, the visual arts or sport." Additionally, 25% of the intakes of comprehensives can be selected so as to match the school's composition to that of "the local community." But these are minor concessions made by Labour's Education Minister David Blunkett. The main point is that it is generally "unlawful" for comprehensives to test for or select by "ability.")

The Government is allowing only one method of reprieve for the grammar schools -- some of which date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth I (as does, for example, Queen Elizabeth Boys' Grammar School, Barnet, Hertfordshire where the headmaster Eamonn Harris has kept his school 'elitist' despite pressures that forced the sister school, Queen Elizabeth Girls' Grammar School to go private). The grammar schools are to be abolished in ballots that can be triggered when 20% of voters in any area so request. Since some 60% of parents will have little interest in high quality education for selected youngsters, the result of ballots -- especially with Labour holding a massive lead in national opinion polls -- is almost a foregone conclusion.

Still, a ballot is a ballot. So the Daily Telegraph (Education Correspondent: John Clare) is to its great credit making a determined effort to ensure people know the facts. As explained in The g Factor, it is Northern Ireland which provides the test case. There -- because of the concerns of religious folk for 'their' schools, and because of the absence of socialist ideologues (in conservative Ireland, such people have to join the IRA to find any company) -- the traditional grammar school system remains intact. In the Six Counties, grammar schools cater for 36% of secondary school children. The final result is simply stated. In England & Wales, 46% of the entire school population reach the criterion of 5 GCSE passes at Grade C or better by age 16; in Northern Ireland, the figure is 55%. In line with this, a higher proportion of all Northern Irish pupils eventually earn admission to a university (currently requiring a minimum of 2 'Advanced' Level passes in exams usually taken at age 18).

Not only Torygraph readers back the grammar schools. The Independent recently carried correspondence saying (R. G. Addison, Ipswich, 24 iii '99): "The ethos of the majority of comprehensive schools is anti-elitist and anti-intellectual (a major source of bullying). Discriminating middle-class parents shun them for this reason."

In a search for the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, America's Time magazine has come up with a Top Twenty. Headed by Einstein, the list includes seven English names (Alexander Fleming, the Wright Brothers, Alan Turing, Frances Crick, James Watson and Tim Berners-Lee [who invented the World Wide Web]). Most remarkably, however, the list includes three people who were famous in psychology, and all of them had strong nativist and Darwinian beliefs (however qualified by recognition of individual micro-environmental factors): Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget and William Shockley.

Dr Michael Aris (1946-1999)

This NewsLetter records with regret the death after a battle with cancer of the quiet Oxford don who was the supportive husband of the freedom-loving Burmese beauty, Aung San Suu Kyi. The pair had met at Oxford [where Aung San graduated in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1967] and co-operated on a book on the troubles of Tibet while pursuing their own special interests in Bhutan and Burma. Dr Aris was a Visiting Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Harvard and a Fellow of St Anthony's College [up the Woodstock Road, just across the way from The Gardner's Arms]. The couple had two fine boys, now in their twenties, who were last allowed by Burmese authorities to see their mother in 1997. Michael Aris gave his wife for the cause of freedom in Burma, as will surely be recognised one day in that unhappy land where Aung San has done her best in her father's memory to keep hope alive.

GRIMSBY -- The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, which does not use any books by Jewish authors in its courses (Times Higher 19 ii '99; McDNL 23 ii '99, 'Free Speech -- News of Latest Horrors') has now reached the front pages of Sunday newspapers and the lofty attention of the BBC (BBCR4UK 29 iii '99). The LUniversity has a twinning arrangement with Saudi Arabia and does not want to upset its Arab benefactors, but it is now facing critical fire from groups which missed the opportunity to defend The g Factor in 1996 but still want to deplore academic censorship.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -- A South African court sentenced the once-fêted Black {well, marginal} anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak to six years in jail for stealing foreign donor funds intended for apartheid victims.

NEW YORK(UPI) -- Nation of Islam's Black leader Louis Farrakhan has been gravely ill since January, probably with prostate cancer. Like other Black Power leaders before him, he believes he has been poisoned by the FBI. Farrakhan gained national attention in February 1984 when, as head of the black separatist Nation of Islam and as an ardent supporter of Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy, he was accused of anti-Semitism. Farrakhan had praised Adolf Hitler, calling the World War II Nazi dictator a "great man," and describing Judaism as a "gutter religion. "

BOSTON, Massachusetts, U-WIRE: Administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged last week they have systematically discriminated against female faculty for decades, a bias they said has had long-term negative effects on professors and the university. Only 15 of MIT's 209 tenured science faculty, or 7 percent, are women. (Nation-wide, 26 percent of tenured faculty are women -- the vast majority being in the arts, humanities and social sciences.) To redress this problem, the school has agreed to increase pay for female faculty by an average of 20 percent and adjust retirement packages retroactively. Administrators have also shuffled class assignments and given female faculty more office and laboratory space. "Using the word discrimination makes it sound deliberate," said Nancy Hopkins, an MIT professor of biology who was among those who brought complaints to the administration. "The cause is unconscious, but it has tangible results." MIT is the first US university to acknowledge institutional discrimination.

LONDON -- A new 'anti-racist' movement has been set up under the patronage of the parents of murdered Black youth Stephen Lawrence. Aiming to sweep past the Stalinist Anti-Nazi League (patron: Prof. Steve Rose), it is called the National Civil Rights Movement.

LONDON -- The House of Lords threw out all but three of the 30 charges in a Spanish arrest warrant seeking Senator Pinochet's extradition from Britain. The law lords said Pinochet, 83, can be extradited to face only 3 counts alleging conspiracy to torture and murder, at times after 1988. Former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a long-time Pinochet ally, called on the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, to allow Pinochet to return to Chile. "The law lords have now confirmed that almost all the charges brought against Senator Pinochet are inadmissible," Lady Thatcher said. "In these circumstances, it is quite wrong to keep him here." Later, during a visit to Senator Pinochet's elegant residence on the exclusive Wentworth Estate, 20 miles south-west of London, Baroness Thatcher, 73, told him: ``The information [on the Falklands] you gave us, the communications and also the refuge you gave to any of our armed forces (who were able, if they were shipwrecked, to make their way to Chile) were invaluable.''
By contrast, the Guardian (26 iii '99) welcomed their Lordships' proposal that Britain (and apparently any other nation state) was "obliged to adjudicate crimes committed by the leaders of other countries" -- and remarked the justification for bombing Serbia that could be read out by all good neosocialists from that proposal. On learning that 27 charges against Pinochet had been dismissed, Spain promptly produced a further 28.

LONDON (BBCR4UK 27 iii '99, 00:20; Times 27 iii '99) Tony Blair's Lord Chancellor, Lord Derry Irvine, has been found guilty of sex discrimination by a London Employment Tribunal. His Lordship had appointed a White male to be a personal assistant on taking up his government appointment in 1997 without advertising the post, and he found himself challenged by a disgruntled Black lady, Martha Osamoor, 59, and a younger White woman. The Tribunal declared his appointment (of a solicitor who is a godfather to Blair's children) to have been "indirect" but still "unlawful" discrimination. His Lordship says he followed normal Cabinet Office appointment practice, that the case was "mischievous and political", and that he may launch an appeal against the employment court's finding. The Times called his defeat "embarrassing."

UVIRA, Congo, Reuters: About 100 civilians were massacred in eastern Congo in the latest outbreak of Black-on-Black inter-ethnic fighting in the region. Residents said local Mai Mai warriors allegedly hired by Rwanda's government killed 100 villagers at Magunga on the eastern frontier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika. ``They came at 2 a.m. They encircled the village and started to kill people with machetes,'' said Magunga's village chief.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Mick Jagger and his pulchritudinous new babe, Lucian Morad, have put their love child down for Eton. (Previously, Jagger had an anti-establishment image and he and his wife, Jerry Hall, had rejected Eton for their boys.)

CAIRO -- Neosocialism's First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, toured Christian, Muslim and Jewish holy sites in Egypt and called for religious tolerance. Mrs. Clinton said the White House now marked Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan, just as the first family recognized Christmas and Hanukkah with trees and a menorah.

EDINBURGH -- PPL Therapeutics, the Edinburgh company that caused a world-wide stir two years ago by creating the first transgenic sheep, has won permission to breed up to 10,000 animals on two farms in New Zealand. It currently has 147 transgenic sheep in the country. The green light clears the way for large-scale breeding of cloned sheep capable of producing milk containing human proteins, for use as medicines. Managing Director Ron James said the New Zealand decision was a vote of confidence in the company's technology.

PONTIAC, Michigan -- Mercy killer Dr Jack Kevorkian was found guilty of second degree murder and will almost certainly serve a stretch in prison. Kevorkian, 70, conducted his own defence (with the numerous complications that involves) and hoped to highlight the lies and hypocrisy used to condemn what he called his assistance at a suicide.

LONDON (BBCR4UK 27 iii '99, 00:25) -- Paedohysteria -- The Chelsea Football Club coach, Graham Rix {see McDNL 23 ii '99}, has been jailed for six months for having sex with a 15-year-old, but the Club says they stand by him and will re-instate him. Rix, 41, a separated father of four children, had known the football-mad blonde for several months and been told that she was over 16 and was taking the Pill. One night he spontaneously phoned to invite her to a Club party in a hotel, and it was there that sex took place. The next day, the girl visited a doctor to obtain the morning-after Pill and began making disgruntled phone calls to Rix, saying she felt "used." The Club says it feels Rix has already paid a sufficiently heavy price for a moment of madness. {Evidently Mr Rix did not have the foresight to ask his babe to complete McDougall's Standard Consent Form -- see McDNL 28 vii '98….}

NEW YORK -- Tens of thousands of people turned up outside Manhattan police headquarters in daily protests that Rev. Al Sharpton had organized to protest against the police killing of a Black street peddler who was shot during a search for a rapist. Over 1,000 people were arrested , including Jesse Jackson, several NY politicians and filmstars. The unarmed 22-year Black man who died had no police record. Four police officers are likely to be indicted for second-degree murder (killing that shows a "depraved indifference to human life"). One officer had previously made 120 arrests without firing a shot and without a single complaint being lodged. Talking of the community response to the death, Jesse Jackson said: "I look out here today and I see blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, men and women, moving from battleground to common ground and the moral ground. This is a great day. A day of joy. A day of hope."

WASHINGTON -- From a poll of 26,013 American adults, CNN has found 89% would not be disappointed if the leading Black Democratic politician Jesse Jackson did not seek the presidency. In 2000.

AMSTERDAM, Reuters: The Dutch government, suspicious of the number of immigrants entering the Netherlands to join relatives, is planning to introduce voluntary DNA testing for applicants. ….In 1998 The Netherlands received an estimated 48,000 asylum applications as refugees flowed in from Kosovo, Somalia, Sudan, Iran and Iraq.

LONDON (www.nandotimes.com) -- Notorious world-wide for their lack of interest in sex, British men have now surprised medical researchers by claiming to have quite often been sexually assaulted. Three percent claim to have been assaulted -- slightly more often by men than by women, especially when they were children. 9% of the complaints are of rape. {The London University researchers, writing in the British Medical Journal 318, 846-850, found men who claimed to have been abused as children also claimed to have more psychological problems as adults; but the researchers did not offer any evidence of causation -- presumably because they had none. Notoriously, unhappy children are attracted to paedophiles who offer kindness that is lacking in their home lives.}

LONDON (Times 25 iii '99) -- The charity ChildLine revealed that quite a few of its phone-in callers are ten-year-old girls who are having sex regularly and need advice about the Pill and pregnancy.

NOTTINGHAM -- A team of psychologists led by Professor Vicki Bruce have discovered that people watching police videos are better at identifying people they know than people they, er, don't know. A Golden Fleece Award for the researchers is in preparation.

AUSTRALIA -- Forthcoming is the racial needle match between White blond Ozzie sprinter Matt Shivington and Black Britain's Linford Christie. Whatever the outcome, an Observer photograph (28 iii '99) of both men in tight shorts leaves no doubt that Shivington has a great deal in his lunchbox.

LONDON -- After two years in the dumps, Britain's Conservatives have hired leggy killer-bimbo Amanda Platell, an Australian Labour-voting tabloid journalist, to be their leader. A suddenly displaced Conservative press officer has sought easier work in charge of public relations for Serbia's Mr Milosevic….

This newsletter for the science and politics of differential psychology appears on Tuesdays. See its Archives and related articles on psychology, heredity, individual liberty and William McDougall FRS. Only the McDNL gives the up-to-date answers of genes-realistic psychology to the tired social-environmentalism and political correctness of egalitarian ideologues and hysterical feminists. Only the McDNL challenges the media's worship of: (London) Profs Susan Greenfield, Germaine Greer, Steve Jones and Steven Rose; and (New York) Profs Jared Diamond, Ronald Dworkin, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman, Stephen Jay Gould and Leon Kamin. Only the McDNL has backed Nobelist Daniel Carlton Gajdusek, multivariate psychologist Raymond Cattell (1905-1998), and social philosopher Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) as their names have given offence to today's neosocialists and kindred hysterics.

Humanitarialunacy

Classically, humanitarianism was about humanity. It meant pity for the weak, the underdogs and the minorities. Even the deranged, the perverse and the criminal could hope to benefit. -- Not to mention artists in garrets and victims of similar quasi-intellectual persecutions organized by the great and good of church or state. The mere fact of being human was taken by the humanitarian as a guarantee of intrinsic value. Authority should be opposed when it oppressed and intimidated the weak beyond what was necessary for the maintenance of public behavioural order. At least, the authorities should not kill. Witches, Protestants, Jews, Catholics, murderers and even traitors were all to benefit from time to time from this simple principle. The West came to take pride in its freedom -- that it would 'live and let live.' Only soldiers who declined to surrender and 'war criminals' were to remain exempt from the elementary mercy that spared lives -- though homosexuality and paedophilia remained risky in rural areas and state housing schemes of the West.
      Necessarily, humanitarianism risks shading into sheer anti-authoritarianism. Indeed, its supporters typically regard this as a positive merit; and humanitarian causes gain support when they can draw on simple opposition to the military, political and economic powers of the day. Additionally, in the twentieth century, both socialists and 'liberals' have liked it to be thought that they overflowed with compassion which was to include cash handouts as well as to exclude public executions. Yet socialist authority in its turn proved no more merciful than the authority of old: in the name of the working class, Stalin killed some five time as many people as Hitler, and Stalin and his successors would not even let Jews, poets, philosophers and scientists buy their way out from behind the Iron Curtain to the free world. In the USSR and its satellites, 'the new class' identified by Yugoslavia's Milovan Djilas led to the latter being convicted of subversion and serving nine years of imprisonment in Belgrade's Central Prison.
      The last week has seen the latest official humanitarianism, the neosocialism of President Clinton, Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Schroeder, pitted against the sorry remnants of Eastern European socialism that remain from the Cold War. Impressively, the AmericOtan Imperium -- benefiting from a US philosophy of economic competition and low state spending -- comes equipped with the finest technowizardry. Equally, its highest levels of leadership involve token Blacks (at least among the US President's legal team), women (the tank-like Ms Albright) and homosexuals (at least in the Labour Cabinet till Christmas), not to mention serial adulterers and pacifist Greens; and its official philosophy of multiculturalism has gutted its English-speaking countries' major institutions -- as armies must use women troops, schools must refuse to teach the bright and celebrate stupidity, universities must refuse to back scholarship and instead celebrate ignorance (especially in the form of ignoracism), and the law must prosecute without regard for harm caused or the antiquity of charges.
      All this looks nice and perky -- so long as one is not a victim of the new PC religion that has been used to drum up Black and feminist votes for socialists wanting a new lease of life. Yet a problem is becoming plain. Not content with locking up paedophiles and date rapists for trivia, and shooting out those who attempt escape to American communes, neosocialism now seeks to make inter-state war in the name of humanity as well.
      One can only hope that the brains of military and political leaders have not been so atrophied by meritless promotion and addled by years of self-righteous multiculturalism that they have altogether forgotten some simple truths.

So far, after five days of bombing Serbia, Nato has killed or injured about a thousand Serbs (says Belgrade, which shows pictures of bandaged children) and has certainly done nothing to prevent the frightful and escalating ethnic clearance of half a million Kosovars -- a clearance which Nato spokesmen themselves call genocide. Before proceeding further, neosocialists should remember some simple principles.

Today's neosocialists are understandably cock-a-hoop and gung-ho: thanks to their support for capitalism and sound money, they enjoy massive electoral support throughout the West as they offer a little nannying to smooth capitalism's rough edges; and they have inherited a fabulous military technology developed during the Reagan and Thatcher years. Having promised to leave business alone, neosocialists find they have the state to themselves as a playground where all children can be assumed to be 'equal' and the Anti-Nazi League allowed to do a little harmless bullying of any who think otherwise. Yet there are principles in life other than a spontaneous 'compassion' that finds its chief outlets in suppressing free speech for one's own White males and in organized loathing of a foreign government. While the West wants to tolerate White-hating Louis Farrakhan and man-hating Andrea Dworkin, it should explain its multiculturalism to itself. For the moment, neosocialism is ripping up every post-1945 principle of international relations, making every aggressor the judge and jury in his own case, and risking a nuclear-armed Saxon versus Slav war merely to show its loathing of Mr Milosevic and his culture.

Floating voters might consider the warm endorsements of the bombings from the following quarters:

Andrew Rawnsley, c. 30, top columnist for the high-PC Observer Sunday broadsheet:

"The allied intervention has become a test of an emerging new world order in which military measures are deployed for humanitarian ends."

"Nowhere in the world is so far away that it is not relevant to our security interests. ….Milosevic represents a very poisonous brand of politics which is entirely ethnic-based and ethnic-driven. It is facile to suggest further dialogue with him."

'This is not war. It is not intended to get Milosevic to sue for peace. It is not to protect civilians. It is a humanitarian intervention.'

{So why not try some humanitarian intervention against China over Tibet, against Russia over Chechnya, against Turkey over Cyprus and Kurdistan, against Indonesia over East Timor, against Israel over Palestine and the Lebanon, or -- some might say -- against Britain over Northern Ireland?}

By contrast, all letters to the Times 29 iii were 'negative'. One compared Milosevic to Churchill. A second recalled that it was on 27 iii 1941 that brave Serbs had mounted a successful pro-British coup against the Nazi-backing regime of Belgrade -- resulting in full-scale German bombing and Serbia being invaded from all sides. (Subsequently, Belgrade was pounded by Russian bombers attacking the Nazis and played host to the liberating but rape-prone Red Army.) A third letter, from Harry Gelber of the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics deplored the attack on Serbia and said:

Whether anything coherent can be made of British opposition to the Defence Secretary's "not war" on Serbia remains to be seen.
Sadly, such opposition tends to have an anti-American flavour -- though one might admittedly have expected the present incumbent of the White House to be particularly cautious about putting himself forward as a war leader for the West. (The US Senate was certainly cautious: it voted for bombing by only 59 to 41.)
The neoliberal view that states should primarily assist and respect contracts between their citizens extends naturally to the international domain and requires respect for classical sovereignty and the use of force only when contracts are broken. Perhaps the asinine attack on the Serbs will expose the pretentious and illiberal folly of neosocialism and make politicians from a wide range of perspectives see the need for a neoliberal Fourth Way that stresses choice and contract in human affairs. Just as important, however, will be any growing respect for race realism as the Western public learns more of what both Muslims and Serbs have had to put up with while idealistic politicians the international community have tried to impose hopelessly non-territorial solutions on fratricidal ex-Yugoslavs. To persuade people of different 'ethnicities' to jog along together requires realism, not idealism. That enforced multiculturalism is now leading to bloodshed on a massive scale and the danger of a Viet Nam in Europe may at last wake people up to the true horror of PC and its commissars. It must be hoped the tragedy in Serbia will give neoliberal focus to the conservatives, old-style liberals and nationalists whose disjointed efforts have so far left neosocialism unopposed.

Environmentalunacy

Nurture nuts still live in clover -- at least in the world of the 'media', which is determined to look after its darlings. Top magazine Science has just given 3 pages to environmentalunacy, even though Ingrid Wickelgren's 'news' story peters out half way through.

"NURTURE HELPS MOLD ABLE MINDS"

1-IQ-point BOOST COSTS $40,000 per child

The latest US Head Start programme is a joy to the heart, says Science. Till today, there was no convincing evidence about IQ. "Disputes have been heavy on ideology and light on evidence," adjudicates Science, considering the 555 pages of The Bell Curve (plus 200 pages of appendices, notes and references). But now the elderly Ms Janellen Huttenlocher of North Carolina has come up with the answer that pious pinkoes need. "We have demonstrated that intellectual skills often believed to be innate are extremely sensitive to environment," says Janellen. Starting thirty years ago, Huttenlocher has been arranging for state employees to talk to babies. She had found mothers differed by a factor of 10 in their speech output and that their infants differed by a factor of 4 in their vocabularies. {The correlation? Well, that would be telling! Anyway, developmental psychologists can't do ooops don't believe in correlations and factor analysis. Anyway, says Janellen, "the mothers didn't differ much in verbal IQ."} Soon Huttenlocher was equipped with a nursery and spending £US10,000 per annum on each of 155 Black infants as soon as they could walk. By age 3, intensively enriched tinies had a 17-point developmental advantage over non-enriched controls, so funds continued to roll in. {IQ testing is notoriously unreliable at age 3 and probably dependent on children's exposures to test-type materials.} Ten years later, the IQ gap between experimental and control children was only 5 IQ points, but there was no stopping Janellen. After all this investment, she could get the endorsement of Robert Plomin for having shown something or other, she could get published in Applied Developmental Science {come again?}and she could get a visit from Ingrid Wickelgren. For the latter, Janellen released the really brilliant news: the 5-IQ-point gain from 13 years of Head Start effort occurs chiefly for lower-IQ children. Yes, the great beneficiaries of the North Carolina programme have been children of Black mothers having IQs of around 50. Such is the hope for America of the future. Black mothers of IQ 50 will be able to go on breeding and everything will be just fine!

Any more news from Science? Well, following Stephen Ceci's claims that schooling of the 1930's might have been worth something, Harvard sociologist Christopher Winship has found differences of 4 IQ points in childhood between children who started school early and those who started school late.

Obviously Ms Wickelgren asked whether brighter children might have been started earlier at school by education-anxious parents? Obviously? You must be joking! Still, any such modest gains in scoring on standard tests might help explain the Flynn Effect -- for the number of years of schooling for US children increased from 8 in the 1920's to 13 today. As to accounting for actual IQ differences among adolescents today, even the North Carolina researchers don't claim anything that could have justified a 3-page spread in Science. Says Wickelgren: "they concede that IQ is a product of genes" -- though of course in complex interaction with the environment….

I.Q.

Time WRITER CHALLENGED

Edinburgh, 26 March 1999

Dear Editor,
                     Nicholas Lehman believes that the IQ concept was an American invention of 1917 involving vocabulary testing, and that it now holds back the lower-IQ one-third of American youngsters ('The IQ meritocracy', Time c. 19 iii 1999).
      The facts are otherwise. The IQ formula (Mental Age divided by Chronological Age, multiplied by 100) originated in 1908 with the German differential psychologist, William Stern (1871-1938); most IQ-tests neither test nor depend upon vocabulary -- the use of numbers and graphics problems being equally popular; the refusal of US educationalists and politicians to let children be taught according to their mental abilities has for years led parents to seek to avoid all inner-city state schools; and 'affirmative action' is used to limit the places at US universities for bright Asian, Jewish and other White children. Nicholas Lehman would apparently like IQ testing to be banned in education. But his dream that the USA should emulate the USSR and Nazi Germany (which both banned IQ testing around 1937) is already a reality: to assign children to special schools in the USA, educational psychologists in most states are obliged to use stratagems like assessing 'linguistic ability' rather than use tests of general intelligence.
      Lately, large-scale US education research reviewed by psychologists in Iowa¹ has shown that real benefits accrue to all students when they are taught in groups that are homogeneous for general intelligence -- i.e. taught according to ability. In particular, there are marked gains in attainment and self-confidence for minority students (both black and Hispanic) and to girls who are so taught. In Britain (where a generation of mixed-ability comprehensive schooling has reduced educational levels to those of Ireland and Poland²) Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has talked of the need to introduce 'fast track learning' that accords with children's abilities; and urban state schools are now being made to provide special lessons for the brightest 10% of children. It is thus odd to find neglect of IQ being urged in the columns of Time.
      I am yours etc., Christopher R. Brand, Fellow of the Galton Institute.

Political Correctness

….I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated. For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 -- long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe.

….In his book, "The End of Sanity," Martin Gross writes that "blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction. Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they don't like it."

Let me read a few examples. At Antioch college in Ohio, young men seeking intimacy with a coed must get verbal permission at each step of the process from kissing to petting to final copulation ... all clearly spelled out in a printed college directive….. In San Francisco, city fathers passed an ordinance protecting the rights of transvestites to cross-dress on the job, and for transsexuals to have separate toilet facilities while undergoing sex change surgery. In New York City, kids who don't speak a word of Spanish have been placed in bilingual classes to learn their three R's in Spanish solely because their last names sound Hispanic. At the University of Pennsylvania, in a state where thousands died at Gettysburg opposing slavery, the president of that college officially set up segregated dormitory space for black students.

….What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?

Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason.

….Don't let America's universities continue to serve as incubators for this rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism. But what can you do? How can anyone prevail against such pervasive social subjugation? ….You simply ... disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Non-violently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom. I learned the awesome power of disobedience from Dr. King ... who learned it from Gandhi, and Thoreau, and Jesus, and every other great man who led those in the right against those with the might. Disobedience is in our DNA. We feel innate kinship with that disobedient spirit that tossed tea into Boston Harbor, that sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the bus, that protested a war in Viet Nam. In that same spirit, I am asking you to disavow cultural correctness with massive disobedience of rogue authority, social directives and onerous law that weaken personal freedom.

….When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself ... jam the switchboard of the district attorney's office. When your university is pressured to lower standards until 80% of the students graduate with honors ... choke the halls of the board of regents. When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl's cheek on the playground and gets hauled into court for sexual harassment ... march on that school and block its doorways.

….I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobediences of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, by God's grace, built this country. If Dr. King were here, I think he would agree.

Hate Crime Hysteria

WASHINGTON -- Instead of deploring hysterical demands to create 'hate crimes', ludicrous House Republicans are renewing their push for a constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to ban flag desecration. Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde told the subcommittee on the Constitution that in a nation torn by racial and other differences, the flag's symbolic value as a unifying force makes desecrating one a hate crime.

South Africa

THE former white regime is responsible for the failure of the African National Congress-led Government to deliver on its promises, president of the ANC Women's League Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said yesterday.
Madikizela-Mandela was addressing thousands of ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal to celebrate Human Rights Day. She visited the South Coast as part of the ANC's resolve to pay tribute to a community that has lost hundreds of lives through political violence between itself and its opponents -- the Inkatha Freedom Party.
Madikizela-Mandela said the Government inherited corruption from the previous :apartheid regime and it was not easy for the democratic Government to eradicate it within its first five years in office. "The problem is that whites stole our money and that is why we are not able to build you roads and houses as quickly as you need them." said Madikizela-Mandela. She also warned that the time of criminals and third-force elements who used religion and political organizations to achieve their personal gains was over. "Hijackers should know that Christmas is over," she said. As soon as [Deputy President and ANC president Thabo Mbeki] comes to power we are going to show you that we meant to fulfil the promises we made in 1994."

Sex x Race x Somatotype x Psychology

The latest biological hypothesis from human biodiversity cognoscenti Peter Frost and Steve Sailer is as follows (http://www.eGroups.com/list/h-bd):

There is good data for the first row of this comparison. The second row is based on the assumption that breast volume and hip width correlate with estrogen levels.
Obviously the hypothesis could explain why the European women are the most beautiful. But is it good psychology?
East Asian women have the highest educational levels and the highest employment levels; they delay marriage and childbirth the longest. In general, they seem to be more in control of their emotions than white or black women, and thus are less likely to be exploited in the name of love. A lower estrogen level might explain this pattern. In contrast, Steve Sailer adds, "black women are widely considered strong, independent, "matriarchal", athletic, queenly, and (less flatteringly) surly; yet the statistics show that black women tend to be exploited by their men much more than they exploit their men. The extreme example of this is the predominantly black subculture of pimps and ho's."

{Helpful qualifications might arise from specifying the levels of hormones separately in the two sexes; and from distinguishing between hormonal resting level, sensitivity of receptor sites for hormones, sensitivity of hormone production to external stimulation and hormonal excretion rates. Another factor may be where the more sensitive hormone receptors are located. Thus, Sailer notes "the important paradox that East Asians tend to have less masculine musculature than West Africans, but more masculine mental abilities (e.g., mathematics, 3D imagination, etc.)."}

"I am sick of wastin' leather
On these gritty pavin'-stones.
And the blasted English drizzle
Wakes the fever in my bones.
Though I walks with fifty 'ousemaids
Out of Chelsea to the Strand
And they talks a lot of lovin'
Lord, what do they understand?
Beefy face an' grubby 'and!
I've a neater, sweeter maiden
In a cleaner, greener land.
On the road to Mandalay
Where the flyin' fishes play
And the dawn comes up like thunder
Out of China 'cross the bay!"

PS [courtesy of Peter Frost, Université Laval, Sainte-Foy (Québec)]
Studies reporting Black-White difference in androgen level are:
Ross, R., L. Bernstein, H. Judd, R. Hanisch, M. Pike, B. Henderson (1986). 'Serum testosterone levels in healthy young black and white men.' J. Natl Cancer Inst 76, 45-48.
Ellis, L. & H. Nyborg (1992). 'Racial/ethnic variations in male testosterone levels: a probable contributor to group differences in health.' Steroids 57, 72-75.

Consciousness

McDNL's bête noire Steven Rose has just persuaded a collection of British cognibabblers to associate themselves with his Marxist oeuvre. From Brain to Consciousness -- Essays in the New Sciences of Mind (Penguin, £UK25) wheels on a string of eminences to solve the problem of consciousness. Their answers?

And that's it, folks! No wonder reviewer Antony Freeman (Editor of the journal Consciousness Studies) declares that, though Rose's tome will be "accessible" to babes in arms, "to those from within the field of consciousness studies, there is little new in this volume."

{Readers worried by Ray Kurzweil's alarmingly titled new book, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Viking, $US26) should be reassured by philosopher John Searle (in New York Review of Books). Kurzweil is sure that computers will do lots of things, like bombing Serbia, and that it will become irresistible in conversation to attribute consciousness and intelligence to them. But this is to ignore that robots will long remain simulations. -- No one thinks Deep Blue enjoyed its last game of chess. Says Searle: "You do not cause digestion by doing a computer simulation of digestion." And a computer do more than simulate consciousness and thought.}

The long-expected work on IQ from the Professor of Psychology at Cambridge, Nicholas J. Mackintosh, has now appeared in bookshops (IQ and Human Intelligence, Oxford University Press, 1998, £UK20). Anything new? Nothing at all!

Any mention of The g Factor (Wiley DePublisher, 1996) from the UK professor who once commended the book in Nature? Not a word! Though Mackintosh tutored Brand for a year at Oxford -- and Brand still has Mackintosh's [very dangerous] coffee grinder -- the work of ostracism has been complete.

Stephen Jay Gould

McDNL's bête noire suprème fell foul in 1996 of one of the USA's top economists. Here is an extract from 'WHAT ECONOMISTS CAN LEARN FROM EVOLUTIONARY THEORISTS', a talk given to the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy by Paul Krugman (Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT).

Inherited Race Difference

Testosterone magazine has none (12 vi '98, 'SPEED DEMONS: The Domination of Sport by Blacks, Jose Antonio, Ph.D. and Chris Street, M.S., http://www.testosterone.net/html/body_sf3.html).

Rastagarianism

….In almost every case when the medical use of marijuana has been put on a ballot, it has been approved by voters. Supporters have been as diverse as the rainwater liberals of Oregon and the cowboy libertarians of Arizona. We will probably discover that the District of Columbia approved an initiative last fall, too, if Congress allows the votes to be counted. On this issue, voters have shown that they are more mature than the political class.
For obvious reasons, there has been no leadership on this issue from President Clinton, who began his career of evasion at the national level by telling us he didn't inhale. Conservative Republicans, my ideological soulmates, have also been woefully stubborn.

The Japanese have been obsessed with blood type and personality for almost 30 years. They choose mates with "compatible" blood types; and their corporations assemble work teams based on blood type. In Eat Right for Your Type, naturopath Peter J. D'Adamo writes that our ancient genetic heritage is represented today in the four human blood groups -- O, A, B, and AB -- and that we must follow the nutritional dictates that evolution laid down. He says Type O is the most ancient blood group, the one of the carnivorous big-game hunter -- the self-reliant, risk-taking optimist. A later mutation is Type A, he writes: that of people adapting to an agrarian diet, who were co-operative, law-abiding, yet high-strung. Next came Type B from the Mongolian nomads, the most flexible and creative of the blood types. Finally, a modern quirk, is the rare AB: people who are somewhat confused, edgy, sensitive, yet charismatic. According to D'Adamo, eat the right foods for your type and your immune system will be strengthened and you'll lose weight.

Unfortunately, D'Adamo's understanding of human origins is, according to Dr. Eric Meikle of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, "completely worthless." According to Meikle, there is no evidence that Type O is the earliest blood type -- quite the opposite, since A and B occur in chimpanzees. Nor is it likely that humans went from being primarily carnivores to omnivores. Among living hunter-gatherers, he says, most of their calories come from vegetable matter, because bagging game is difficult. "People who are able to eat the most meat are agriculturists," says Meikle. "They keep [animals], raise them, and eat them."

Reverend Clintstone

A book on the troubles of the Reverend William Jefferson Clintstone of the Church of the Seven Day Fornicators has now been produced by New York civil rights supremo Alan Dershowitz. Called Sexual McCarthyism (Basic £UK16), the book cannot help but document how the ludicrous US Republicans exploded the US public's hypocrisy meter. The problem was always clear to everyone but the Republicans themselves: the serious charges against Clintoon couldn't be proved, and the charges that could be proved weren't serious. Then, having thrown every lawbook they could find at the President, the Republicans started complaining that he was so legalistic and went everywhere with lawyers. Perhaps the neatest summing up of the Republicans' problem -- and certainly the kindest -- came from the mighty philosopher Thomas Nagel: 'You cannot trust a man who never lies about sex.'

Unthinking Man's Guide

Scruton's surprising hero, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), also had a thanatic streak that was prone to fill him with "spleen" (a mixture of nostalgia and disgust), suicidal self-loathing, and the ennui that later got to poor old cunnilinctus merchant Jean Paul Sartre. Baudelaire had suddenly found he had lost the Oedipal competition when, at age six, his own father died and his mother promptly took a new husband. Expressing his Oedipal despair by means of drink, drugs and a largely lesbian mulatto mistress (his "Black Venus") took up the rest of Baudelaire's life -- and he finally had the satisfaction of dying, albeit as a chronic bankrupt, criminal and invalid, in his mother's arms. It was fortunate that his mistress was a lesbian for Baudelaire experienced many problems with syphilis as well as with the Paris censors. Although he probably derived from the Marquis de Sade his notion of the "identical sensations of cruelty and pleasure", Baudelaire lacked de Sade's light touch and willingness to illuminate his godless and gloomy philosophy with splendid scenes of tribadism, depucelation, buggery (de Sade's hot tip for female satisfaction) and of females' jetting orgasmic juices squirting repeatedly down the throats of their lovers ("my liberated fuck sprang in answer to divine cajolery" -- Juliette, 1797). Baudelaire -- though imprisoned for only a fraction of the time of de Sade -- was a sorry, isolated figure who denied that an artist needed to build on what had gone before. By contrast, said Baudelaire (speaking of Paris, but also symbolically of life and art), "Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or." -- This expressed his commendable realism and individualism but is hardly a sentiment that one would expect to have appeal for the tradition-venerating God-botherer, Roger Scruton!

Rural Paedosadism

For a brief, introductory account of Brand's battles with modern censorship, see:
Wiley & Edinburgh University versus Brand. This history has appended to it: the explanation of how academic freedom came to be effectively abolished in the United Kingdom in 1988; references to 1996-8 press coverage when Brand was run to ground for his views on IQ, race, education, eugenics, sex, 'feminazism' and paedophilia; and references to new articles which counsel against ignoracism and paedohysteria.

Chris Brand's book: The g Factor

NEOSOCIALISM NAILED -- Lorenzo Infantino's Individualism in Modern Thought REVIEWED.

Lawrence Affair / Macpherson Report

Edinburgh LUniversity

Other British LUniversities

War on Drugs

GIRL KILLED AT 13 BY A SINGLE PILL

Anti-Abusohysteria

Paedo-Alert

Collectivism Corrected

Civilization Realism

Conservatives….

African Slavery and Brideprice Today

Psychobabbling

Therapy Corner

Student Corner

Competition Corner

White Racism

British Army

Macpherson Report

Arthur Koestler

KOESTLER'S "EPIC COURAGE" DEFENDED -- THOUGH NOT BY THE UNIVERSITY THAT HAS TAKEN HIS MONEY

Africa Realism

GENOCIDE GENIUSES TURN ON GORILLA-LOVING WESTERNERS

Eugenics

Monicavision

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny's Report on the Lawrence Affair

More Maclunacy

A Word in Sir William's Ear -- from Australia

The g factor -- the psychotelic* question

Nature versus Nurture

'ENVIRONMENT' A THREE-WAYS LOSER

Reverse Racism

Philosophy Corner

Reform Conservatism

Afro-Americanism

This America

Euroland

This England

Jewish Studies News

Maclunacy Latest

Affirmative Racism Opposed

The g factor

'Mein Kampf' for Louisiana: a review of My Awakening.

The g Factor

Neosocialism in South Africa

NATIONAL SOCIALISM 000PS NEOSOCIALISM RULES

Anti-Semitism

Individual versus Environment

Deep South

Chris Brand's Personality, Biology & Society

Jed Bran' - Varmintality, Biology an' Society

Date Rape

Darwin Award Nominations

Educalunacy

Child Abuse / Kids' Lib

Neoliberal for Louisiana?

Sex Differences

'SUPERWOMEN' ATHLETES ARE A FUNDAY FICTION

Race and Evolution

Music and Mastery

Paedohysteria: the case of Mary Letourneau

Psychology and Propagation

Evolutionary Femilunacy

This America

Crime x Race Profiling

Playground Profiling

Race, Religion and IQ

Educalunacy USA

Social Anthropology

Human Personality

Psychopathology and Genius

Edinburgh LUniversity

Slavery

Debating Point

The Awakening

Third Way

Real Women's Page

Babe Bagger

Weaker Sex

GENOCIDE GENIUSES
TURN ON GORILLA-LOVING WESTERNERS

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny's Report
on the Lawrence Affair

The g factor -- the *psychotelic** question

'Mein Kampf' for Louisiana:
a review of My Awakening.

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS UNDER FIRE IN SERBIA
-- but Henry Kissinger, Lord Healey, Lord Carrington, David Duke, Alex Salmond, Sir Edward Heath, Tony Benn, Professor Norman Stone and Chris Brand say STOP THE BOMBING!

IQ PSYCHOLOGIST UNDER FIRE IN FLORIDA
-- Guess who defends him?