Linkfest 2017-05-05

• The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right

Steve Sailer is getting more attention. This probably isn't good attention, but what can you do?

• The quiet but substantial successes of Abenomics

I still don't understand macroeconomics, but I am trying.

• The siren song of homogeneity

This is pretty good.

• Political polarization among college freshmen is at a record high, as is the share identifying as ‘far left’

The shift from male-dominated campus leftism to female-dominated is interesting.

• Lifeless Biology

A Thomist ruminating on the way in which we try to explain things we understand well in terms of things we don't understand well.

• GOODBYE, LEFT AND RIGHT

Rusty Reno argues that globalism/nationalism is the axis upon which the world will turn.

• A Hundred Years of Communism

BD Sixsmith's somber memorial to the Bolshevik Revolution.

• Study finds millions of China's 'missing girls' actually exist

This makes me feel better that they aren't all dead. There is a counterpoint here challenging this research [which cites the faulty idea that you can alter the ratio male/female births by stopping having kids after you have a boy]

• The Road is Gross and Boring

I like apocalyptic fiction. I am glad I never got around to The Road.

• Tearing down the boss phone

The application is a bit disconcerting, but I am amazed at the functionality/price ratio.

• The Ratzinger Revolution

I expect that history will fondly remember Benedict XVI.