Book review of "Noticing" in "Chronicles"
Auguste Meyrat reviews my anthology.
From Chronicles:
December 2024 By Auguste Meyrat
Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)
by Steve Sailer
458 pp., $29.95
When it comes to political and cultural commentary, Steve Sailer is one of the most influential writers whom most people have never heard of. But if they listen to any popular podcast, conservative or progressive, they will come to see that Sailer’s arguments and even his style of argument are ubiquitous. Exiled for harboring politically incorrect positions on various issues, he has nevertheless continued writing regularly for three decades, knowing that the right people are reading him.
Of course, some people still try to label Sailer a racist kook devoid of principle. The most recent example can be found in The Atlantic, which published an article attacking Sailer’s character without addressing any of his arguments (“The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ,” August 2024). Supposedly, Sailer and others who dare to examine data on race “are shrouding bigotry in a cloak of objectivity and pseudoscientific journalism.” How this is so is anyone’s guess, since the claims of the essay itself rely on prejudiced assumptions and baseless inferences rather than facts.
Read the whole thing there.
The pleasure and honor’s all mine, Steve. You called it on so many things, and I see your arguments everywhere. Little did I know that much of what I’ve been thinking was written by you more than ten years prior somehow.
I’m probably partial because your versatility in topics is a bit like my own (I can’t limit myself to one thing either). I don’t think I’d have the acumen or patience to pore over so much data though.
I hope you liked the review. Maybe it’ll bring more readers your way and vindicate your efforts and curiosities.
Someone contact 'Chronicles' editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried, and a demand Steve Sailer (who has been published there before) be given a monthly long-form column. Possibly reviving his movie-review column from days of yore.
Bad suggestion for a possible Sailer movie-review column's name: "Sailing through Hollywood, by Steve Sailer."