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Race relations in the natural state

From The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell reviews What Is Intelligence? by James Flynn. Dissecting the IQ debate: A response to William Saletan's series on race and IQ. Interventions at every age from infancy to college can reduce racial gaps in I.Q., sometimes by substantial amounts in surprisingly little time. Are race-based discrepancies in mean intelligence brute biological facts, impervious to social or technological efforts to alleviate them? A study suggests ethnic discrimination not only based on prejudice. An interview with Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique. A review of Race Relations in the Natural State by Grif Stockle. Noose: The true history of a resurgent symbol of hate. Between T.I. and the Isis Papers: There's been a national wave of violence by whites against blacks since the Jena 6. march. A white backlash against civil-rights gains for minorities is gaining force — the chief engine: the increasingly extreme-right bent of the conservative movement.