Jones is almost certainly a hereditarian and probably a race realist too, but he's a mainstream academic with a lot to lose so I understand why he doesn't address that aspect directly. I think his work is mostly good at making the case that the quality of people matters most, this being of course totally antithetical to modern western immigration policy.
I've had lunch with him a handful of times, and I count him as a true friend. If he is a hereditarian and a race realist, he's not a firm one. He is also definitely not a supporter of white identity politics (or any identity politics for that matter) and told me (very firmly) that remigration was not going to work. He's by no means woke and understands nationalism in a way that eludes his contemporaries (He is an ex-Mormon). I think he is a pragmatic classical liberal who understands and is interested in IQ.
Jones is a hereditarian. You just have to read in between the lines and see that. If you listen closely to podcasts he’s interviewed in, you can hear that he’s subtly a person who believes that people and not the environment matter and that he vouches for high IQ standards in immigration reform etc.
He is mistaken about the Swedish switch from left-hand to right-hand driving. Naturally, it was done at 05:00, not at 17:00. Non-essential traffic was disallowed all night.
The interaction between intelligence, environment, history, and culture are going to vary wildly and unpredictably...so academics will be writing about it forever....One pretty safe conclusion, however, is that the continuing decline of American and Western intelligence levels, as measured by the SAT over the last 60+ years, is responsible for many of the changes in our current culture(s)...
Interesting review. I have read the first and the third book in the series and found them enjoyable.
As per determining the Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality for nations and sub-national groups, how does a researcher differentiate between genetic causes and cultural causes? It seems like a particularly thorny methodological problem.
Jones is almost certainly a hereditarian and probably a race realist too, but he's a mainstream academic with a lot to lose so I understand why he doesn't address that aspect directly. I think his work is mostly good at making the case that the quality of people matters most, this being of course totally antithetical to modern western immigration policy.
I've had lunch with him a handful of times, and I count him as a true friend. If he is a hereditarian and a race realist, he's not a firm one. He is also definitely not a supporter of white identity politics (or any identity politics for that matter) and told me (very firmly) that remigration was not going to work. He's by no means woke and understands nationalism in a way that eludes his contemporaries (He is an ex-Mormon). I think he is a pragmatic classical liberal who understands and is interested in IQ.
Jones is a hereditarian. You just have to read in between the lines and see that. If you listen closely to podcasts he’s interviewed in, you can hear that he’s subtly a person who believes that people and not the environment matter and that he vouches for high IQ standards in immigration reform etc.
He is mistaken about the Swedish switch from left-hand to right-hand driving. Naturally, it was done at 05:00, not at 17:00. Non-essential traffic was disallowed all night.
The interaction between intelligence, environment, history, and culture are going to vary wildly and unpredictably...so academics will be writing about it forever....One pretty safe conclusion, however, is that the continuing decline of American and Western intelligence levels, as measured by the SAT over the last 60+ years, is responsible for many of the changes in our current culture(s)...
Interesting review. I have read the first and the third book in the series and found them enjoyable.
As per determining the Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality for nations and sub-national groups, how does a researcher differentiate between genetic causes and cultural causes? It seems like a particularly thorny methodological problem.