29 October 2012
Vlucht in de Medemens
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text of a reply to someone who recently wrote to me, having read the Dutch edition of The Human Evasion (‘Vlucht in de Medemens’) some year...
12 October 2012
A ‘level playing field’?
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The provision of free state education used to be described as creating a ‘level playing field’. However, it may be wondered whether the real...
06 October 2012
‘Class warfare’ as a cover for IQ warfare
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Critics have accused Ed Miliband of ‘class war’ tactics after he devoted most of a party political broadcast to the fact he went to a compre...
19 September 2012
Should the state choose for you? Certainly not.
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A recent advert in the Financial Times shows a female professor at the London Business School, asking the question: ‘Should financial regu...
02 September 2012
The Bourgeoisie strikes back (or is prevented from doing so)
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Lenin is said to have declared that the way to crush the bourgeoisie was to grind them between the millstones of inflation and taxation. T...
11 August 2012
Oxford's professorship in education
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In December I applied for a professorship in education offered by Oxford University. The text of the covering letter was reproduced here . ...
04 August 2012
Philosophy students and vacation workers
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text of a reply to a university philosophical society Dear ... Thank you for inviting me to speak to the ... Society. I am afraid that I...
21 July 2012
The onward march of egalitarianism
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Prior to the 1939-45 war, getting university fees paid if you, or your parents, could not afford them depended on showing remarkable academi...
11 July 2012
Tax the pensioners till the pips squeak
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Attention continues to be focused on the population of pensioners. This is a group with an average IQ above that for the population as a who...
08 July 2012
A YouTube video about my ‘misogyny’
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text of a letter to someone who posted a video about my ideas on YouTube My colleague Dr Charles McCreery came across your video on YouTub...
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