Now that the initial fall-out over last week's Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano has settled and the implications for Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearings have been discussed and debated, we might take some time to consider the where this decision falls in the longer arc of affirmative action and...

Now it's official. Obama has made history. No, I'm not talking about the presidential re-swearing in, or becoming the first African-American President. I am talking about the fact that we now have the first-ever BlackBerry President. The president evidently won the first battle of his new administration after having declared,...

Much hubbub has ensued from a Norwegian study published in the prestigious journal Science that purports to show that first borns enjoy a 2.3 point advantage in IQ. The study was noteworthy for its large sample size (more than 200,000 military conscripts) and for its innovative technique of examining individuals...

I want to take the opportunity to elaborate the position from which I was arguing in the NY Times, while also backing off on a couple points.

One of the (main) modernist projects is about erasing the limitations of biology. If someone is wheelchair bound, we do not --...