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I had really hoped never to hear anything more from Jason Richwine. It does sometimes happen that a public figure, caught in an act of real viciousness, fails to find any further public forum.
But no. Richwine, you may recall, is a "scholar" and a co-author of a Heritage Foundation study that claimed that immigration reform as presently envisioned would cost the country $5.3 trillion. In the course of debunking that ridiculous claim, it came to light that Richwine's Harvard doctoral thesis was all about race, racial differences in IQ, the belief that "the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ," and how to use IQ as a means to keep inferior individuals out of the U.S. (and how to pretend that this is not what we are doing.) The Heritage Foundation turned out to be capable of shame -- or at least shrewdness in public relations -- and let Richwine go.
Now he's back, sadly, with a piece in Politico. Here, he defends his previous work by saying that racial differences in...
But no. Richwine, you may recall, is a "scholar" and a co-author of a Heritage Foundation study that claimed that immigration reform as presently envisioned would cost the country $5.3 trillion. In the course of debunking that ridiculous claim, it came to light that Richwine's Harvard doctoral thesis was all about race, racial differences in IQ, the belief that "the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ," and how to use IQ as a means to keep inferior individuals out of the U.S. (and how to pretend that this is not what we are doing.) The Heritage Foundation turned out to be capable of shame -- or at least shrewdness in public relations -- and let Richwine go.
Now he's back, sadly, with a piece in Politico. Here, he defends his previous work by saying that racial differences in...