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""The New Yorker" retracts Malcolm Gladwell's potential libel of Charles Murray"

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Anonymous mrs. anonymous said...

It might be ridiculous, but it's happening. What else would you call ed school?

12/12/07, 4:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...


Rather, they warned that if current welfare policies continued, we would end up having to build high-tech reservations for those with low IQs--which is a very different argument, obviously (although not, if you think about it, any less ridiculous).


Although, the way things are going, the majority of American are unable to participate in the high-tech wealth that is being generated and we are importing lots of Indians, Chinese and so forth to produce it, and lots of consumers from south of the border too ...

12/12/07, 4:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What really chaps Sir Gladwell's ass is that riff-raff like Steve are publically exposing his completely fabricated blind liberal bias.

Due to the clear legal liability, this is one of the few lies/distortions that Gladwell is forced to correct. Didn't he delete Steve's comment yet?

12/12/07, 4:33 PM

Anonymous David said...

He almost fell off the tightrope this time. CLOSE ONE, MALCOLM! But he will fall in the end!

LOOK OUT BELOW -- !

12/12/07, 4:58 PM

Anonymous TH said...

Wasn't it Gladwell who made Steve enable commenting on iSteve? I'm grateful for that.

12/12/07, 6:59 PM

Anonymous Sailer Saleri said...

Steve, it's amusing that you say on Gladwell's blog "It's not exactly a secret that Malcolm sees himself in some kind of rivalry with me" Funny, because it's you who is continuously obsessing about Gladwell rather than the other way around.

12/12/07, 7:22 PM

Anonymous fifi said...

Too funny. I guess this was an early Christmas present for Steve.

12/12/07, 10:39 PM

Anonymous Udolpho said...

Proof, if any was needed, that Gladwell has never actually read The Bell Curve, the tone of which is consistently and insistently anxious about the inegalitarian aspects of a high IQ super-class.

Murray and Herrnstein were rare and bold visionaries. Brave enough to say what is true, and far-seeing and compassionate enough to feel concern over the implications. Meanwhile the contemptible guardians of PC morality (never give offense) compound the problem by refusing to address it.

12/13/07, 1:56 AM

Blogger Luke said...

Gladwell may have accidentally done Murray a favor by drawing attention to what was, I thought, the best chapter in the book and one very few people ever got to.

One thing I remember was Murray's suggestion that some form "of the simple life" might be more appropriate for this segment of the population. As it happens I did a Gallup poll back on the 1970's on just that issue -- my own version of the simple life, anyway -- and it turned out blacks were nearly twice as interested in it as whites (two-thirds vs. one-third roughly).

You can read the question I asked, which describes the lifestyle, on my personal google homepage here: http://luke.lea.googlepages.com/home

If anybody wants to see the details just drop me an email at luke.lea@gmail.com

12/13/07, 8:43 AM

Anonymous Jim Flynn said...

Gladwell will continue to pull this type of stunt as long as no one calls him on it.

12/13/07, 8:01 PM

Anonymous none of the above said...

That's a pretty gut-wrenching correction! Do they often accidentally accuse someone of advocating putting millions of people in concentration camps?

Doesn't anyone notice what this does to their credibility, when they report horror stories about someone in a way I can't check?

12/13/07, 8:55 PM

Anonymous Northerner said...

Even Gladwell's correction is wrong: He says that Murray/Herrnstein argued that elites would end up "having" to "build" reservations. Not so -- their argument wasn't that anybody would "have" to "build" anything. Their argument, instead, was that as high-tech elites marry and live amongst themselves more and more, society will just become very divided by class and IQ, and that this will be like a "high-tech . . . reservation" for the low-class people. No one is "building" anything there.

And yes, Murray/Herrnstein say that this vision is "apocalyptic" and that it going to be the "destruction" of American "civil society." It's amazing that anyone could have thought they were RECOMMENDING such a scenario.

12/15/07, 8:58 AM

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