Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations - New York Times

A NYT must-read on the saga of Bush administration lawbreaking in the area of interrogation.

Yet More on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ

Yet More on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ (Via Andrew Sullivan). This post succeeded in convincing me that intelligence is so strongly affected by environmental factors that the conclusions drawn by the Bell Curve are likely vastly exaggerated.