For relief from Stephen Metcalf’s loutish Thought Police nightstick-swinging on Slate.com, try Steve Sailer’s calm, thoughful, and exceedingly well-informed piece about I.Q. on Vdare.com. Our Steve, unlike their Steve, has mastered the art of writing a thousand words on a tricky topic without calling anyone evil. He is also a trained statistician who has been writing about human-science topics for over a decade, while Metcalf is merely an ideological enforcer.

Be interesting to see an open debate between the two of them. My money would be on Sailer for a K.O. in the first. Too bad we won’t find out: Metcalf would never agree to an open discussion with someone who actually knew what he was talking about.