From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Steve Sailer
July 17, 2024
This week’s dramatic events—Trump surviving being wounded by a would-be assassin quickly followed by his selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate—will focus attention on the newer generation of higher-brow rightist thinkers because it’s now thinkable that Vance, whose first endnote in his bestselling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy is to a genetics blog post about his Scots-Irish people by my friend Razib Khan, might someday be President. …
Whether Vance can convert his obvious intelligence into broad appeal to the Republican electorate, which has been trending downscale in this century, remains to be seen. …
But it’s hardly improbable that Vance’s new generation/post–Paul Ryan intellectual interests will drive the press into a tizzy over the next week.
Personally, I don’t know that much about Vance. To the best of my knowledge, I have never had a back-and-forth communication with him, in person, on the phone, or digitally.
Nonetheless, this seems like a good point in history for me to post online my concluding chapter—“What if I’m Right?”—from my anthology Noticing …
Because the VP nominee is likely to be attacked for an unproven familiarity with my ideas, I thought I’d post my explanation of why some of the smartest people think that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, I’m the most reasonable pundit in America.
Read the whole thing there.
But, but we NEED Assistant Reichsfurher for Domestic Policy Sailer!😉
Early in life, Vance had his father's and then step-father's surnames of Bowman and Hamel. I suppose they would be too-obvious aliases once he got a Wikipedia page.