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2026 49

  1. Kyle Harper: a natural and human history of the Holocene
  2. Monologue: Out-of-Africa, from the IUP to the 38,000-year-old western explosion
  3. Monologue: Is out of Africa dead? (part N)
  4. Jonathan Beauchamp: Genoeconomics arise!
  5. Philippe Lemoine: France of the riots and revolution
  6. Ramez Naam: a solar future against AI-doomerism
  7. Jerry Z. Muller: academia today, intellectual history in the past and AI in the future
  8. Theo Jaffee: monitoring the “singularity”
  9. Scott Greer: Whitepill and Sunbelt
  10. Brian Chau: noticing with technology + investigative journalism
  11. Kyle Orton: Muslims before Islam
  12. Gabriel Rossman: the late marvelous Dr. Arday and the state of sociology
  13. The rise of the hopeful monsters: the true story of humanity
  14. Monologue: Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas and the wages of DEI
  15. Nikolai Yakovenko: the wages of the Hugging Face hack
  16. Werner Zagrebbi: Adventures in Forbidden Data
  17. Collin Hogue-Spears: How AI Works in China
  18. Maxwell Meyer: magazines in a digital age
  19. Daniel Di Martino: a Latino immigrant on immigration (and Venezuela)
  20. Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer: noticing the kakistocracy
  21. Jason Scharf: Austin's present and future as Texas' tech hub
  22. Destiny (Steven Bonnell II): a liberal in the age of radical progressives and MAGA
  23. Joseph Robertson: bringing Reform UK to the top of British politics
  24. Zineb Riboua: Rising Tides of the Third World
  25. Dan Hess: the end of Asians and humanity going to the retirement home
  26. Brianna Wu: the case for liberalism
  27. Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou: the last Hellenes and the children of the Yamnaya
  28. Nikolai Yakovenko: 4 years into the age of AI
  29. Chris Rufo: the California project
  30. Gregory Cochran: 15 years after The 10,000 Year Explosion
  31. Russ Greene: the rise of Total Boomer Luxury Communism
  32. 10,000 years of selection (in Western Eurasia)
  33. Matthew Schmitz: Christianity as identity, New Atheism and the Texas of Lord Hanuman
  34. Megan McArdle: the follies of populism, impending fiscal crisis, and the whirlwind of AI
  35. Monologue: Race - genetics, history and sociology
  36. Monologue: Out-of-Africa is not dead but hybridization lives
  37. Chris Bradley: better science for longevity
  38. Chris Masterjohn: COVID-19 to mitochondrial health, communicating and applying "the science"
  39. Mike White: academia and genomics in the 21st century
  40. Aaron Renn: Heartland urbanism and leaving Left Behind behind
  41. Daniel Tabin: ancient DNA, the good, bad and ugly
  42. Joe Henrich and Cosimo Posth: the weirdest people in the world and the genetics of Ice Age Europe
  43. Peter Nimitz: the story of the Slavs
  44. Jesse Arm: Gen Z Republicans and their views
  45. Davide Piffer: how Europeans became white
  46. Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious
  47. Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy
  48. Monologue: sex differences, 2 billion years B.P. to now
  49. RKUL: Time Well Spent, 1/1/2026

2025 97

  1. Monologue: year-end review of Proto-Indo-European origins and humanity's deep evolution and diversity
  2. Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times
  3. Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age
  4. Antiquity’s miracle skin whitening method: migrate to Sweden, wait millennia
  5. RKUL: Time Well Spent, 12/13/2025
  6. Shadi Hamid: American power and the post-woke age
  7. The Waiting Game: Past, Present and Future of Indian Genomics
  8. Vishal Ganesan and Anang Mittal: American Hinduism out of Indian Hinduism
  9. Two Steppes forward, one step back: parsing our Indo-European past
  10. Immigrants of Imperial Rome: Pompeii’s genetic census of the doomed
  11. John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my!
  12. RKUL: Time Well Spent, 11/27/2025
  13. The cave where it happened: Denisova cavern’s congress of ancient peoples
  14. Sean Trende: 2025 elections and political demographics, past and future
  15. Land acknowledgement, Greenland edition
  16. Alex Young: IQ, disease and statistical genomics
  17. Zineb Riboua: Zohran Mamdani and Third-Worldism ascendent
  18. Ghost Population in the Machine: AI finds Out-of-Africa plot twists in Papuan DNA
  19. Ed West: visitor from a dying empire
  20. Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics
  21. Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror
  22. RKUL: Time Well Spent, 10/10/2025
  23. A Nile shadow 4,500 years long
  24. Nate Soares: we are doomed (probably)
  25. Re-writing the human family tree one skull at a time
  26. Alexander Cortes: broscience, health science and fertility
  27. How the West was wrought
  28. Fortune favors the fearless: millennia of Austronesian maritime feats
  29. From Formosa to the Four Corners of the Earth: the Austronesian expansion’s long arc
  30. Kat Rosenfield: after the vibe shift
  31. Eric Kaufmann: a cultural revolution in winter
  32. Ryan P. Williams: the Claremont Institute standing athwart history
  33. Chad Orzel: the state of physics and academia in 2025
  34. Jonathan Anomaly and James Lee: is eugenics in our future?
  35. Jason Richwine: immigration moratorium now
  36. Alex Nowrasteh: an immigration libertarian in Trump's America
  37. John Hawks: varieties of humankind all mixed-up
  38. Noah Millman: from finance to the culture industry
  39. Cesar Fortes-Lima: the Fulani out of the Green Sahara
  40. Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking
  41. RKUL: Time Well Spent, 07/14/2025
  42. Genghis Khan, the Golden Horde and an 842-year-old paternity test
  43. Nikolai Yakovenko: the $200 million AI engineer
  44. David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia's antipodes
  45. The wandering Fulani: children of the Green Sahara
  46. Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web
  47. Hiding in plain sight: uniting Denisovans’ famous DNA with a set of mysterious physical remains
  48. Iran is not Iraq
  49. Nathan Cofnas: Judaism's group evolutionary strategy and hereditarianism defended
  50. RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/16/2025
  51. Brave new human: counting up the de novo mutations you alone carry
  52. Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response
  53. The Punic Paradox: Genetically, Rome's great African rival was startlingly European
  54. David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later
  55. Ethan Strauss: sports and the end of the culture wars
  56. Manvir Singh: the shamanic roots of all religion
  57. Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web
  58. Nomads to natives: how Bronze-Age Sami newcomers became eternally Nordic
  59. Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution
  60. Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania
  61. RKUL: Time Well Spent 5/05/2025
  62. Lost Green Saharans: ancient DNA unearths a new race from a verdant North African interlude
  63. Homo with a side of sapiens: the brainy silent partner we co-opted 300,000 years ago
  64. Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans
  65. Germans are from Finland, Finns are from Yakutia
  66. Bonus monologue: man the hybrid monster
  67. John Sailer: a time of troubles in higher education
  68. Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die
  69. Eternally Illyrian: How Albanians resisted Rome and outlasted a Slavic onslaught
  70. Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay
  71. Bonus monologue: ancient North Africans and the Green Sahara
  72. RKUL: Time Well Spent 4/04/2025
  73. Andrew Song: cooling the planet with technology
  74. Soft power from the rooftop of the world
  75. A different kind of heart: Tibetans’ genetic uniqueness and enduring cultural sway
  76. Zineb Riboua: realism in foreign policy in 2025
  77. Mark Lutter: charter cities and the urban future
  78. RKUL: Time Well Spent 3/15/2025
  79. Graeme Wood: Germany's turn to the right
  80. Where Queens Ruled: ancient DNA confirms legendary Matrilineal Celts were no exception
  81. Leighton Woodhouse: against the rise of the anti-woke cancel culture and MAGA cultural hegemony
  82. Kevin Klatt: Nutrition, health, MAHA and GLP-1
  83. Charles Murray: 50 years on the public scene
  84. Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a post-national Europe
  85. Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars
  86. RKUL: Time Well Spent 2/2/2025
  87. Wealth, war and worse: plague’s ubiquity across millennia of human conquest
  88. Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)
  89. When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot
  90. Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek
  91. Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race and sports
  92. We are what we speak: Indo-European phylogenetic and linguistic trees concur
  93. Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America
  94. Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen
  95. Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later
  96. RKUL: Time Well Spent 1/1/2025
  97. The other man: Neanderthal findings test our power of imagination

2024 91

  1. We were selected: tracing what humans were made for
  2. Dan Hess: the fertility collapse
  3. John Hawks: 2024 in Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits
  4. Science giveth and science taketh away
  5. RKUL: Time Well Spent 12/12/2024
  6. David Mittelman: pushing the genomic frontier in 2024
  7. "But then I realized horses are just men-extenders"
  8. War and Peace: horse power, progress and prosperity
  9. In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and Corded Ware
  10. Graphic Content & Cyber Monday: the year’s deepest discount
  11. Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to industrial
  12. Nikolai Yakovenko: the Singularity is not here
  13. Yascha Mounk: American democracy in 2024
  14. Anatoly Karlin: Russian nationalism to American globalism
  15. RKUL: Time Well Spent 11/11/2024
  16. The Horse: Man's Most Useful Companion
  17. Crémieux Recueil: US election 2024 analysis
  18. A language family of one, a land beyond conquest
  19. Wilfred Reilly: confronting historical myths propagated in schools
  20. Leighton Woodhouse: chaos and corruption in urban America
  21. Africa’s exception to every rule: Ethiopian genetics, sovereignty and religion
  22. Lyman Stone: a demographer against the birth dearth
  23. RKUL: Time Well Spent 10/10/2024
  24. Peachy Keenan: cosmopolitan radical traditionalist
  25. Jesse Singal: after the replication crisis and into the youth gender medicine debate
  26. All together now: did human joiners outcompete rugged Neanderthal individualists?
  27. Sam Hammond: I for one welcome our A.I. overlords
  28. 14,000 years of natural selection
  29. France: Europe’s crème de la crème
  30. La France: blessed eldest daughter of a blessed continent
  31. Europe: 40000 BC to 1200 BC
  32. RKUL: Time Well Spent 09/09/2024
  33. Misha Saul: the Antipodean Anglosphere
  34. Rachel Haywire: the edge of the avant-garde
  35. Halie May: the democratization of genomics
  36. Korean identity: a story of genetic continuity 1,400 years in the making
  37. Inez Stepman: Silicon Valley's post-human world
  38. Got milk? Get -13910*T
  39. Everywhere you want to be: Indian immigrants in America (part 2 of 2)
  40. RKUL: Time Well Spent 08/08/2024
  41. Christina Buttons: navigating the gender wars
  42. Everywhere you want to be: Indian immigrants in America (part 1 of 2)
  43. Sarah Haider: activist to podcaster and public intellectual
  44. Eliah Overbey: the birth of bioastronautics
  45. You can’t beat us if you join us
  46. When in (the) America(n century), do as the Americans do
  47. Aria Babu: pro-natalism in the shadow of empire
  48. Louise Perry: overcrowded Britain and the ennui of a post-imperial nation
  49. RKUL: Time Well Spent 07/07/2024
  50. Bryan Ward-Perkins: The material consequences of the fall of Rome
  51. Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
  52. Scions of Sahul: the steadfast Australian settlers who held off sedentarism for 45,000 years
  53. J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
  54. Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history
  55. RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2024
  56. Chad Niederhuth: genetics in plants, from Mendel to GMOs
  57. Brazil: a melting-pot genetic present and an uncharted deep past
  58. Jonathan Keeperman: becoming Lomez
  59. Ryan Burge: Losing Our Religion
  60. Lost civilizations and the promise of new knowledge
  61. Akshar Patel: Modi's India in the 21st century
  62. RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2024
  63. Jeremy Carl: The Unprotected Class - How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
  64. Little Steppe earthquakes: upheavals both demographic and scholarly
  65. The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
  66. Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C.
  67. Roma Termini: why cities both make us and break us as a species
  68. John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes
  69. RKUL: Time Well Spent 04/05/2024
  70. Colin Wright: in the trenches of the gender wars
  71. Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
  72. Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
  73. Beyond the Pale: Irish cultural uniqueness past Rome's reach
  74. Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
  75. Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
  76. RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2024
  77. The longer I live, the wronger I get to be
  78. Chris Stringer: human evolution in 2024
  79. The two Indo-European revolutions and Germania’s rise
  80. Hans, are we…. the admixed ones?
  81. Rob Henderson: foster-kid to Ivy League graduate
  82. Nick Cassimatis: fear not AI, this too shall pass
  83. Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette's dynamic duo
  84. Time Well Spent - 2/2/2024
  85. James Miller: the end of world as we know it
  86. Wilfred Reilly: a social scientist in the culture wars
  87. Kind of a big deal: 10 golden-age papers that changed human genetics
  88. Erich Schwarz: in the beginning was the worm (C. elegans)
  89. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Who Makes the NBA?: Data-Driven Answers to Basketball's Biggest Questions
  90. Alexander: the psychology of dating
  91. Time Well Spent - 1/1/2024

2023 96

  1. Happy 2024! 1-day sale…and if you only read one _ this year
  2. RKUL Hit List 2023: From deepest Siberia to Europe’s edge
  3. RKUL Hit List 2023: Ashkenazi Jewish genetics, a match made in the Mediterranean
  4. RKUL Hit List 2023: Steppe 1.0, Going Nomad
  5. More than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousins
  6. David Lightbringer: mythopoetic interpretations
  7. When Slavs Rush in: the Fall of the Latin Balkans
  8. Cesar Fortes-Lima: the three thousand-year odyssey of the Bantu
  9. Katherine Brodsky: After 10/7 in Israel, Europe and the US
  10. Time Well Spent - 12/12/2023
  11. Cody Moser: the adaptive landscape of cultural evolution
  12. Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
  13. Cyber Monday 50% discount, and three things I never quit
  14. Genghis Khan: they don’t make stars like they used to
  15. Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
  16. Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism
  17. Brent Roberts: let's talk about personality
  18. Time Well Spent - 11/11/2023
  19. Carl Zha: Chimerica to the Thucydides's Trap
  20. Uncanny Neander Valley
  21. Curtis Yarvin: reflections on a life of poetry
  22. Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone - The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
  23. Peter Nimitz: the end of the first civilizations 4,300 years ago
  24. IBW Episode #3: The Israel-Palestine conflict
  25. Steinn Sigurðsson: Black Holes, causality and exoplanets
  26. RKUL: Time Well Spent 10/10/2023
  27. Eternal Equipoise: millennia at Eurasia’s heart
  28. Gregory Clark: what has genetics to do with social status?
  29. Sundar Iyer & Sudha Jagannathan: the accused speaks the truth about caste and the "Cisco Case"
  30. Shaka Zulu: The Last of the God-Kings
  31. John Logsdon: what has genomics done for evolution?
  32. Facing Facts, even fraught ones: the quest for proto-Indo-Europeans in 2023
  33. Christopher Rufo - America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.
  34. Richard Hanania: The Origins of Woke - Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
  35. The Indian caste system: origin, impact and future
  36. RKUL: Time Well Spent 09/09/2023
  37. David Anthony: when we were Yamnaya
  38. Erik Hoel: The World Behind the World
  39. Katherine Dee: Is Twitter just our default?
  40. Inez Stepman: fixing higher education
  41. Cory Clark: adversarial collaborations in science
  42. RKUL: Time Well Spent 08/08/2023
  43. Bantu über alles: three millennia of unstoppable African farmers repeopling the vast continent
  44. Alex S. Young and James J. Lee: quantitative genetics in 2023
  45. Diana Fleischman: evolution, sex and eugenics
  46. Nicola Buskirk: old books for a new generation
  47. Hannah Frankman: unlearning the lessons of the past
  48. Lyman Stone: God is dead, long live the Lord!
  49. RKUL: Time Well Spent 07/07/2023
  50. Our explosive past: on cataclysms and demographics
  51. Until our luck runs out
  52. Renu Mukherjee: affirmative action's end
  53. IBW Episode #2: Muslims vs. LGBTQIA+
  54. You’re so Turk and you don’t even know it
  55. The out-of-Africa event in the light of ancient DNA and genomics
  56. Samuel McIlhagga: the UK as a zombie nation
  57. Elizabeth Jones: ancient DNA as "celebrity science"
  58. RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2023
  59. Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
  60. Current status: it’s complicated
  61. Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
  62. Samo Burja: China's future, Russia's present and archaeology's past
  63. One door closes, another opens: the Persian Empire’s end and the rise of the Persianate world
  64. RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2023
  65. Timothy B. Lee: don't rage against the machine
  66. We are all Zoroastrians: how Persian empires of the mind touched all humanity
  67. The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization
  68. Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia
  69. Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
  70. Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
  71. Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught
  72. RKUL: Time Well Spent 04/04/2023
  73. Iran through the ages: civilization's eternal crossroads
  74. David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
  75. The modern human conquest of earth
  76. Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
  77. Fury out of the North: from pagan slavers to Christian kings
  78. David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
  79. The 100-year-winter and the coming of Ragnarök
  80. Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
  81. RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2023
  82. Chariots of Ice, Coursers of the Sun
  83. Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
  84. After the Ice: how foragers and farmers conquered Scandinavia
  85. Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
  86. Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
  87. Charles Fain Lehman: homicide, death in the charts
  88. RKUL: Time Well Spent 02/02/2023
  89. The prehistoric genetic roots of the Chinese
  90. Venerable Ancestors: untangling the Chinese people's hybrid Pleistocene origins
  91. Genetic history with Chinese characteristics
  92. Madagascar: where Asia and Africa met
  93. Jonathan Anomaly: To Make a Better World
  94. Bryan Caplan: open minds and open borders
  95. RKUL: Time Well Spent 01/01/2023
  96. Your brain on books: themed readings lists for a 20-page-a-day habit in 2023

2022 107

  1. John Hawks: a year in paleoanthropology
  2. Posts of Substack past, posts of Substack present...
  3. Shadi Hamid: Democracy in America and Araby
  4. Passing the civilizational purity test: India's 3000-year caste straitjacket
  5. You can’t take it with you: straight talk about epigenetics and intergenerational trauma
  6. Nikolai Yakovenko: GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines
  7. A coat of many colors: medieval-DNA findings detect interwoven strands of Ashkenazi heritage
  8. RKUL: Time Well Spent 12/12/2022
  9. Joshua Lipson, Aric Lomes and Leo Cooper: the medieval origins of the Ashkenazim
  10. The unreal voyages and trials of Madagascar’s Malagasy people
  11. You can't make this up: Madagascar, how our planet's strangest island was settled
  12. Michael Bonner: Iran's Sassanid Empire
  13. Cyber Monday 50% discount, plus who I read and why
  14. So you want to test your DNA
  15. Eurocentrism, the West, and white supremacy
  16. Garett Jones: The Culture Transplant - How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left
  17. RKUL: Time Well Spent 11/11/2022
  18. Cody Moser: universal baby talk
  19. Nikolai Yakovenko: a Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company's prospects
  20. The Turkification of Anatolia: tales of Rome's last conquerors
  21. Razib Khan: Anatolia over 10,000 years
  22. Erik Hoel: neuroscience is dead, long live neuroscience!
  23. Hittite Words, Byzantine Walls: what the West as we know it owes Anatolia’s empires
  24. Jonathan Haidt: social media kills the internet utopia
  25. RKUL: Time Well Spent 10/10/2022
  26. Religion in China, India and the West
  27. Ararat’s long shadow: Asia Minor’s major impact on humanity
  28. Oliver Traldi: welcome to the intellectual dark web
  29. Tania Reynolds: let's talk about intrasexual competition
  30. Richard Hanania: markets in every prediction
  31. Happy second anniversary, Unsupervised Learning!
  32. Kerry of Mary Lincolniana: America made in the image of Massachusetts
  33. RKUL: Time Well Spent 09/09/2022
  34. Razib Khan: the "southern arc" and Indo-European origins
  35. Only from the mind of Martin: a perfect inbred queen
  36. Katherine Brodsky: from internet entrepreneur to cultural commentator
  37. They're all Greeks to me (part 2)
  38. They’re all Greeks to me (part 1)
  39. Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas
  40. Jason Walters: from Salafism to Sartre
  41. RKUL: Time Well Spent 08/08/2022
  42. Ed West: Albion past and future
  43. I wanna be like you
  44. Ethan Strauss: the sports journalism disruptor is in the house
  45. Built to Last: Continuity in Japanese Genetics
  46. Maxim Lott: getting to the truth of the matter
  47. Manvir Singh: beyond anthropological dreams
  48. A Hun by any other name
  49. RKUL: Time Well Spent 07/07/2022
  50. Judge Glock: it's still morning in America!
  51. As American as a first library card
  52. Eternal as the Nile
  53. Dr. Iona Italia: a cosmopolitan liberal in an identitarian age
  54. Unsupervised Learning 2022 Reader survey
  55. The haplogroup is dead, long live the haplogroup! (part 2)
  56. Stuart Buck: making 21st-century science better
  57. The haplogroup is dead, long live the haplogroup! (part 1)
  58. Claire Lehmann: an Australian at the heart of the heterodox web
  59. Manuel L. Quezon III: Explaining the Philippines
  60. RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2022
  61. Iberia: from Scourge of Islam to Launchpad of Conquest (part 2)
  62. Alex Palazzo: drifting into molecular evolution
  63. Iberia: Ancient Europe's Edge of the Earth (part 1)
  64. Ananyo Bhattacharya: The Life of John von Neumann
  65. Stuart Ritchie: bad science, good science and behavior genetics
  66. War (part 2): the making and unmaking of man
  67. War (part 1): the making and unmaking of man
  68. Jason Richwine: an immigration restrictionist speaks
  69. RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2022
  70. Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
  71. Casting out the wolf in our midst
  72. The wolf at history's door
  73. Francis Young: Lithuanian paganism during the Reformation
  74. Euro Vision (part 2)
  75. Rand Simberg: Elon Musk's Starship and making spaceflight great again
  76. Euro Vision (part 1)
  77. Molson Hart: "Chimerica" and the supply chain
  78. Alex Nowrasteh: the last migration expert standing
  79. RKUL: Time Well Spent 04/04/2022
  80. Russian version of "Getting a sense of the Russian soul" - Понять Русскую Душу
  81. James Lee: genes and educational attainment
  82. Josiah Neeley: energy matters
  83. Jacob L. Shapiro: geopolitical pasts, present and futures
  84. Red hair is about as recessive as St. Patrick was Irish
  85. Russia invades Ukraine and ends globalization?
  86. Samo Burja: Bismarck Analysis and geopolitical uncertainty
  87. Getting a sense of the Russian soul
  88. Zack Stentz: Andromeda to X-Men
  89. RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2022
  90. Life (science) comes at you fast, part 3
  91. Life (science) comes at you fast, part 2
  92. Sarah Haider: from Ex-Muslim to gender atheist
  93. Life (science) comes at you fast, part 1
  94. Muhammad Sohail Raza: A Pakistani genomicist in Beijing
  95. Suhag Shukla: American Hinduism in 2022
  96. A black American technologist in China
  97. RKUL: Time Well Spent 02/02/2022
  98. Caleb Watney: onward and upward with progress
  99. Rav Arora: psychedelics and spirituality
  100. Chad Orzel: A Brief History of Timekeeping
  101. Setting the record straight: open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
  102. The Sun Never Sets on the Anglo-Saxons (part 2)
  103. The Sun Never Sets on the Anglo-Saxons (part 1)
  104. William Gunn: from the bench to tech
  105. David Sloan Wilson and Charles C. Mann on E. O. Wilson's legacy
  106. Chris Arnade: walking across America
  107. RKUL: Time Well Spent 01/01/2022

2021 118

  1. Did Daddy write about IQ again yet?
  2. R. Taylor Raborn: evolutionary genetics, good enough for government work
  3. Geography by the numbers: what territory we've covered
  4. Looking back: postscripts to five most-read posts
  5. ICYMI: the lost podcasts
  6. Eric Kaufmann: shall the religious still inherit the earth?
  7. What happens in Denisova Cave stays in Denisova Cave... until now
  8. Our African origins: the more we understand, the less we know
  9. Yo mama's mama's mama's mama... etc.
  10. Leighton Woodhouse: from the labor left to the radical center
  11. RKUL: Time Well Spent 12/12/2021
  12. Xiaotong Yao: a Chinese biologist in America
  13. Megan McArdle: Escape from New York
  14. Thanksgiving squabbles are a feature, not a bug
  15. All I want for Christmas is a few good reads
  16. Dark Horse out of the Steppe
  17. Charles C. Mann: 1491 fifteen years later
  18. Timothy B Lee: reporting on the intersection between policy and economics
  19. RKUL: time well spent 11/11/2021
  20. Tanner Greer: the American New Right
  21. RKUL: a little light reading, October (& early November) 2021
  22. Heritability of height: the long and the short of it
  23. Eric Berger: SpaceX and Elon Musk
  24. Carole Hooven: let's talk about testosterone
  25. Trent Colbert: standing athwart the mob
  26. Under pressure: the paradox of the diamond
  27. Alexander Young: everything you want to know about cognitive genomics
  28. Joshua Lipson: on Jewish genetic genealogy
  29. RKUL: time well spent 10/10/2021
  30. The eternal wanderers: Sephardic Jewish genetics and culture
  31. Kat Rosenfield: how did culture become middle-school?
  32. RKUL: a little light reading, September 2021
  33. The character of caste
  34. Steven Pinker: let's talk about Rationality
  35. A whole New World
  36. Freddie deBoer: the "hereditarian Left"
  37. Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean
  38. Emily Deans: keeping sane in the years of COVID-19
  39. RKUL: time well spent 09/12/2021
  40. Mahan Ghafari: evolutionary genetics and viruses
  41. Among Afghans: jewel of the dragon
  42. Antonio García Martínez: the chaos cancelled
  43. RKUL: a little light reading, August 2021
  44. Should we get "woke" on genetics and behavior?
  45. Maximilian Larena: the most Denisovan ones
  46. Steppe 2.0: would you swipe right on a steppe brother?
  47. Myra MacDonald: the shadow wars in the Indian subcontinent
  48. Hungarians as the ghost of the Magyar confederacy
  49. Ruben Arslan: sex, intelligence & fitness
  50. RKUL: time well spent 08/08/2021
  51. Under the skin
  52. Jared Rubin: Christianity and Capitalism
  53. RKUL: a little light reading, June-July 2021
  54. Jason Munshi-South: rats and evolution
  55. Karl Smith: inflation, the debt crisis, China and the American tripartite class system
  56. Patrick Wyman: Luther, Columbus and Gutenberg
  57. Finnish brains, baiting and bottlenecks
  58. Frontier Finns: cabins, rakes & Indians
  59. Linda Avey: genomics from 23 to 100
  60. From deepest Siberia to Europe’s edge
  61. Alex Mesoudi: the origins of cultural evolution
  62. RKUL: time well spent 07/07/2021
  63. Out-of-Africa's midlife crisis
  64. Get lucky
  65. John S. Wilkins: species, the history of an idea
  66. Dragon Man ascending: two geneticists discuss the latest paleoanthropological discoveries
  67. Here be humans
  68. Go west, young Siberian
  69. Samo Burja (again): finding "lost civilizations"
  70. Weirdness as a national pastime
  71. Duke Tales: I see Finland in the strangest places
  72. Richard Hanania: Israel, "wokeness" is just civil rights, and the Chinese century
  73. Ramez Naam: a promising future
  74. Colin Wright: wasps, New Atheism, and sex
  75. RKUL: time well spent 06/06/2021
  76. David Mittelman: genomics for justice
  77. RKUL: a little light reading, May 2021
  78. Outcast as I wanna be, part 2 of 2
  79. Outcast as I wanna be, part 1 of 2
  80. James P. Mallory: finding the Indo-Europeans
  81. Steppe 1.1b: culture vultures descend
  82. Steppe 1.1a: A nowhere man's world
  83. Marie Favereau: the Golden Horde and world history
  84. Kristian Kristiansen: the birth of Northern Europe
  85. Steppe 1.0, Going Nomad
  86. David Anthony: the origin of Indo-Europeans
  87. RKUL: time well spent 05/05/2021
  88. Our Three-Body Problem
  89. Thomas Olander: the origin and spread of Indo-European languages
  90. Greg Clark: For Whom The Bell Curve Tolls
  91. The ultimate price of costless gestures
  92. Benjamin Basset: pagans and Christians then and now
  93. Abdel Abdellaoui: a behavior geneticist in the 21st century
  94. Entering Steppelandia: pop. 7.7 billion
  95. Library of the Steppe
  96. Gabriel Rossman: the sociologist who tells you that influencers are overrated
  97. Chris Stringer: 1,000,000 years of human evolution
  98. Tom Booth: Cheddar Man and Beyond
  99. Nick Patterson: cryptography to Neanderthals
  100. They came, they saw, they left no trace...
  101. Matt Ridley: evolutionist, Thatcherite, and writer
  102. Books on deck in 2021
  103. Lee Jussim: he comes to abolish social psychology
  104. Made in China
  105. Cathy Young on the shadow of the French Revolution
  106. Texpocalypse Now: a postmortem
  107. Events on Clubhouse Today, Friday the 12th
  108. Chad Orzel: quantum jumps across science and writing
  109. Rob Henderson: Red America to Oxbridge and Beyond
  110. 15 books that will leave you changed
  111. A conversation with John Hawks: a life in paleoanthropology
  112. Come DIY your DTC DNA with me this week
  113. Stark Truth About Humans: a story of India
  114. Ramesh Ponnuru on the pro-life movement in America
  115. Stark Truth About Aryans: a story of India
  116. American Civil War? Richard Hanania thinks it unlikely
  117. Alina Chan on SARS-CoV-2 and "lab leak"
  118. The wages of conventional wisdom

2020 25

  1. Armand Leroi: an evolutionist for all seasons
  2. Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 6, Chris Stringer: the state of paleoanthropology in the 2010's
  3. Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 5, Suhag Shukla: Hindus in America
  4. Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 4, Alexander G. Ioannidis: Native American ancestry in pre-Columbian Polynesia
  5. Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 3, Thomas Chatterton Williams: beyond black and white
  6. Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 2, Vagheesh Narasimhan: Indian genetic history
  7. Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 1, Shadi Hamid
  8. Samo Burja on "social technology," China, and the foreign view of America
  9. In God We Trusted
  10. Your roots are showing
  11. Applying IQ to IQ
  12. The original Chinese man
  13. The age of genetic engineering begins
  14. Glenn Loury: heterodox academy of one
  15. Jeremy Kamil: a virologist in the time of COVID
  16. Beyond "Out of Africa"?
  17. David Shor: the uncancellable
  18. A doctor in the time of COVID-19
  19. Call for content!
  20. What I'm thankful to know about genetics and history in 2020
  21. Eric Cline on the end of the Bronze Age
  22. A conversation with Charles Murray: a heretic in winter
  23. The five lineages of Holocene dogs
  24. The Consolations of Free Thought
  25. Genetics, history, politics