Foreword The Promise The Hive Doth Not Make the Bee Our Intelligence Is Our Individuality The Future of Race Evil Century Classlessness Utopia? Ending Oppression and Degradation The Ethics of Intervention Plato's Lecture The Democratic Quest Essential Feminism Mysterious Ethnicity What Do We Do With the Wealthy? America, the Wave of the Future Bibliography
Why does poverty exist? Why is there social pathology and human degradation? The real reason, according to Itzkoff, is the tragedy of low human intelligence, and the consequent inability of humans to compete in highly complex economic and social environments. This is Itzkoff's highly controversial analysis of the failures of the welfare approach to helping the poor. Included is his radical solution to the perennial problems of inequality in nations and the consequent turmoil and revolution.
SEYMOUR W. ITZKOFF was trained in music, philosophy of science, and educational theory. He has been a professor at Smith College since 1965. Author of twelve books, he recently completed a four-part series on the evolution of human intelligence, which has elicited much praise as well as controversy. In 1991 Itzkoff authored Human Intelligence and National Power (Peter Lang). He is also the author of Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man (1971), Emanuel Feuermann, Virtuoso (1979), and How We Learn to Read (1986).
," . . A very broad-based and philosophic perspective informed by
up-to-date research in mental testing, human genetics, and
sociobiology in the light of modern thought about human
evolution."-Arthur R. Jensen Professor of Educational Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
"must compliment [Itzkoff on his] courage to question assumptions
that have taken on an axiomatic status and say things that need to
be said . . . An excellent job of telling the emperor that he's
standing naked before the masses."-Walter E. Williams John M. Olin
Distinguished Professor of Economics George Mason University
"A brave and honest journey to the frontier in an area which is not
only little-mapped, but which travellers are positively discouraged
from entering."-Peter Brimelow Senior Editor, Forbes
"An erudite, closely reasoned, enormously readable ramble through
history, biology, evolution, IQ studies and quite a lot more, by a
scholar who fears that America is slipping because its people are
not intelligent enough--to name just one of the book's many
politically incorrect' themes."-Daniel Seligman Columnist, Fortune
Magazine
"In order to appreciate [Itzkoff's] work readers should first of
all throw their prejudices overboard, and try to look at the facts
without wanting to punish the messenger because they do not like
the message!"-H.J. Eysenck, Ph.D., D.Sc. Professor Emeritus of
Psychology, University of London
"Prof. Itzkoff sets off into intellectual regions where the map
clearly says "here be dragons," and it is a fascinating
trip."-Charles Murray The American Enterprise Institute Washington,
DC
"The long season of hypocrisy has given us no workable solutions.
May this book inaugurate a new season of constructive
truth."-Edward N. Luttwak Arleigh Burke Professor Strategy Center
for Strategic and International Studies Washington, DC
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