As someone who followed l'Affaire Wax from the beginning (from the Glenn Show episode onwards), I find this unsurprising but encouraging. This data longs to be free. Many thanks to yourself for packaging it, and the hacker for acquiring it in the first place.
And a later interview with Buckley on affirmative action, which mentions differences in IQ between different Jewish groups in the US and Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUbOcgj8AjQ.
“Now, on a lot of questions, we should be open to 10% Less Democracy: Secret Congress, independent central banks, longer terms—of course these are good things and on the margin elites should have more power. Giving the first 2,000 people in the Boston phonebook control of monetary policy would just be terrible and it’s good normal people don’t have opinions about it.”
On the Fed, I might be willing to concede it could be worth having elites able to do stuff about 5%-10% of the time (e.g. the GFC, where they arguably did *some* good/necessary stuff mixed in with the bad stuff - although Scott Sumner persuasively argues they are the ones who caused it to be as bad as it was)…
… if 90%-95% of the time it was the Taylor rule making decisions, and not the “elites” like those who fanned Bidenflation.
How did a racist blogger get access to all this data? Has anything (else) interesting come of it, besides revealing that Zohran Mamdani said he was African-American and had solid but not super-high SAT scores?
As I understand it, you've been able to obtain NYU and Columbia undergraduate data, which is reasonable given that their data was released on the web after the hacks.
How was Cremieux able to obtain Columbia Law data?
As someone who followed l'Affaire Wax from the beginning (from the Glenn Show episode onwards), I find this unsurprising but encouraging. This data longs to be free. Many thanks to yourself for packaging it, and the hacker for acquiring it in the first place.
Regarding Sander's paper, it's worth noting that Thomas Sowell made the same point in his 1990 book Preferential Policies: an International Perspective, pg. 84: https://ia600706.us.archive.org/21/items/politicsDEEPWEB/Preferential%20Policies_%20An%20International%20Perspective%20-%20Thomas%20Sowell.pdf.
Interview with him discussing the point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVvnTByzTmA.
And a later interview with Buckley on affirmative action, which mentions differences in IQ between different Jewish groups in the US and Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUbOcgj8AjQ.
“Now, on a lot of questions, we should be open to 10% Less Democracy: Secret Congress, independent central banks, longer terms—of course these are good things and on the margin elites should have more power. Giving the first 2,000 people in the Boston phonebook control of monetary policy would just be terrible and it’s good normal people don’t have opinions about it.”
On the Fed, I might be willing to concede it could be worth having elites able to do stuff about 5%-10% of the time (e.g. the GFC, where they arguably did *some* good/necessary stuff mixed in with the bad stuff - although Scott Sumner persuasively argues they are the ones who caused it to be as bad as it was)…
… if 90%-95% of the time it was the Taylor rule making decisions, and not the “elites” like those who fanned Bidenflation.
And even then you’d STILL need to defend the absurdity and dangerousness of the idea that part of the Fed’s mandate is addressing “climate change risk”: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/brainard20201218a.htm
P.S. this wholly unnecessary and at least partly wrong tangent within the piece aside, great work on the main point of the article.
How did a racist blogger get access to all this data? Has anything (else) interesting come of it, besides revealing that Zohran Mamdani said he was African-American and had solid but not super-high SAT scores?
As I understand it, you've been able to obtain NYU and Columbia undergraduate data, which is reasonable given that their data was released on the web after the hacks.
How was Cremieux able to obtain Columbia Law data?