Columnist & liberal gadfly Steve Sailer will soon finally see his thoughts collected in print, in an anthology titled Noticing, which we are no longer allowed to do on pain of being accused of every evil under the sun. As in the previous interview, Steve talks about his life & the genesis of his thought. His importance to Twitter today & to the political debate at elite level has something to do with that genesis: Steve is a product of mid-century America, of California, of a liberalism that was confident & generous, committed to political equality & to scientific inquiry. A manly vigor & a manly calm were typical of the investigations & publications of that era.
There is almost nothing like that available today, yet many young men on Twitter deeply admire Steve, perhaps because they tacitly admire the men of that era. Steve always reminds preening & preaching liberal elites on Twitter of the best statistic available, gathered usually by the federal & state gov’t’s, which are no longer part of liberal discussion, or even tolerated. In short, Enlightenment has been repealed in liberal America & Steve is trying to restore it.
This time around, Steve & I talked about Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism, i.e. that female journalists will make arguments & think about stories aimed to persuade society to find them more attractive. Somewhat relatedly, I like to talk about woke as “Does this ideology make me look fat?” Listen to the conversation & enjoy! Aside from the SoundCloud below, here’s the Spotify link:
Also, Apple Podcasts:
As for the previous Steve Sailer interview, you can listen to it here: