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Steve Sailer
Steven Sailer is an American far-right writer and blogger. He is a columnist for Taki's Magazine and VDARE, a website associated with white supremacy. Earlier writing by Sailer appeared in some mainstream outlets, and his writings have been described as prefiguring Trumpism. Sailer popularized the term "human biodiversity" for a right-wing audience in the 1990s as a euphemism for scientific racism.
Sailer was adopted by a Lockheed engineer and grew up in Studio City, Los Angeles. He majored in economics, history, and management at Rice University (BA, 1980). He earned an MBA from UCLA in 1982 with two concentrations: finance and marketing.
He began writing for the conservative magazine National Review in the 1990s, but was let go in 1997. In August 1999, he debated Steve Levitt at the Slate website, calling into question Levitt's hypothesis, which would appear in the 2005 book Freakonomics, that legalized abortion in America reduced crime. He was a reporter for the American news agency United Press International.
Sailer, along with Charles Murray and John McGinnis, was described as an "evolutionary conservative" in a 1999 National Review cover story by John O'Sullivan. Sailer's work has frequently appeared at Taki's Magazine, VDARE, and The Unz Review. He used the phrase "Invade the World, Invite the World" in the 2000s as a criticism of American foreign and immigration policies.
Sailer's January 2003 article "Cousin Marriage Conundrum", published in The American Conservative, argued that nation building in Iraq would likely fail because of the high degree of consanguinity among Iraqis due to the common practice of cousin marriage. This article was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker.
In 2023, he published Noticing, an anthology of his writings. The title refers to the term "noticer", which is used by some sections of the online right to refer to people who believe in "race realism".
Sailer was the founder of an online electronic mailing list called Human Biodiversity Discussion Group.
Sailer's writing has been described as a precursor to Trumpism, seeming "to exercise a kind of subliminal influence across much of the right in [the 2000s]. One could detect his influence even in the places where his controversial writing on race was decidedly unwelcome." After the 2016 election, Michael Barone credited Sailer with having charted in 2001 the electoral path that Donald Trump had successfully followed. Economist Tyler Cowen said on his blog Marginal Revolution that Sailer is likely the "most significant neo-reaction thinker today." His work is popular with the alt-right.
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Steve Sailer
Steven Sailer is an American far-right writer and blogger. He is a columnist for Taki's Magazine and VDARE, a website associated with white supremacy. Earlier writing by Sailer appeared in some mainstream outlets, and his writings have been described as prefiguring Trumpism. Sailer popularized the term "human biodiversity" for a right-wing audience in the 1990s as a euphemism for scientific racism.
Sailer was adopted by a Lockheed engineer and grew up in Studio City, Los Angeles. He majored in economics, history, and management at Rice University (BA, 1980). He earned an MBA from UCLA in 1982 with two concentrations: finance and marketing.
He began writing for the conservative magazine National Review in the 1990s, but was let go in 1997. In August 1999, he debated Steve Levitt at the Slate website, calling into question Levitt's hypothesis, which would appear in the 2005 book Freakonomics, that legalized abortion in America reduced crime. He was a reporter for the American news agency United Press International.
Sailer, along with Charles Murray and John McGinnis, was described as an "evolutionary conservative" in a 1999 National Review cover story by John O'Sullivan. Sailer's work has frequently appeared at Taki's Magazine, VDARE, and The Unz Review. He used the phrase "Invade the World, Invite the World" in the 2000s as a criticism of American foreign and immigration policies.
Sailer's January 2003 article "Cousin Marriage Conundrum", published in The American Conservative, argued that nation building in Iraq would likely fail because of the high degree of consanguinity among Iraqis due to the common practice of cousin marriage. This article was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker.
In 2023, he published Noticing, an anthology of his writings. The title refers to the term "noticer", which is used by some sections of the online right to refer to people who believe in "race realism".
Sailer was the founder of an online electronic mailing list called Human Biodiversity Discussion Group.
Sailer's writing has been described as a precursor to Trumpism, seeming "to exercise a kind of subliminal influence across much of the right in [the 2000s]. One could detect his influence even in the places where his controversial writing on race was decidedly unwelcome." After the 2016 election, Michael Barone credited Sailer with having charted in 2001 the electoral path that Donald Trump had successfully followed. Economist Tyler Cowen said on his blog Marginal Revolution that Sailer is likely the "most significant neo-reaction thinker today." His work is popular with the alt-right.