Peer Reviews & Book Quotes

Book Quotes

I heard the following comments from women in my 20s—when I was a devout Marxist-Feminist.

"Latin men with switchblades are sexually exciting." — Woman with a MA from Columbia in Social Work
"I want a dangerous man." — Playboy Playmate
"I think thugs are sexy." — Grade School Science Teacher

"During the 1960s we socialized the Seven Deadly Sins, so Pride became racism, Lust became "sexism" and "gender" existing "out there," Gluttony became "consumer fetishism," Vanity became media images of beauty, and Sloth became the lack of social action: "Are you fighting for diversity?"

"As we once only talked about sex in order to condemn it, now we only talk about race, gender and class, "society," in order to condemn it."

"Men and women have adapted to different roles in reproduction, so men show off their material and mental resources, while women show off their bodies and faces with tight cloths and makeup. 14-year-old girls have maximum mate value, and more consistent skin tone, so women wear cosmetics to look younger." For most of history, and around the world today, women married at 14.

A female editor and a female philosophy professor both referred to Paul as a genius. The editor did it with drama. I walked into her office, and she stood up from her desk and said, "It's a work of genius: here's my daughter." This may be unique, coming as it is from a female.

A Harvard psychology professor said that "Paul may be the greatest genius in history."

An instructor once referred to Paul's music as "like Beethoven's."

An opera critic for The American Record Guide described Paul's work as "extraordinary."

An eminent Michelangelo scholar described "Human Sin or Social Sin" in glowing terms.

Reviews

"For the select few who appreciate a masterful weaving of history, philosophy, and the arts (from grand opera to the movies), this book is a tour de force. Reading it is like a return to college. For those concerned about the state of modern life, it's a must-read." — Robert Weissberg, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, New York University

"A work of critical importance." — Paul Gottfried, Ph.D.,
author of Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America (Cambridge University Press)

"Paul writes with brilliance."— Winfred Moore, Professor of Religion, Baylor University

"Modern sleep and dream science teaches us, as does Human Sin or Social Sin, that all human activity, including art and politics, is a product of the human brain, and each of us has the privilege and responsibility of using it actively and communicating its creations." — Dr. J. Allen Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Author of Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep (Oxford University Press)

"Paul has a discerning eye and, unlike many academics, including myself, he has the range to connect fashionable academic theory to pop culture. I enjoyed in particular the dissection of the race question." — Prof. Roger Paquette, Ph.D., Co-Editor of  The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas

"It isn't liberal or conservative, it just is." — Literary Agent

“A further aspect of the present model is that individually learned social propensities are seen as operating as prime movers of cultural evolution. Specifically, universal social propensities would impose strong constraints on creativity and social learning, so that the higher the degree of harmony of a cultural innovation in relation to a social propensity, the higher the degree of appealingness of that innovation and the greater the probability that it will be adopted by others (Chapais, 2017).” —Bernard Chapais, “From Chimpanzee Society to Human Society: Bridging the Kinship Gap.” In Richard W. Wrangham, eds. et al., Chimpanzees and Human Evolution (Harvard University Press, 2017, 454)

This quote is a summary of a technical article by Chapais that supports my theory of what I term “body image resonance,” which is a psychological model that attempts to reconcile nativism and learning as expressed in the historical record. Richard Lynn, in his letter on this website, supports my interpretation of this quote. Lynn’s letter contains the article citation.

Robert Sapolsky is a Neuroscientist at Stanford University
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Geoffrey Miller is an Evolutionary Psychologist at New Mexico State.
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“The challenge when it comes to civics, though, isn’t limited to education but extends to engagement. Someone has to run the zoo…. America is largely bound together by ideas. —Neil Gorsuch, A Republic, If You Can Keep It (Crown Forum, 2019, pp. 28, 36).

In a recent interview by Charles C. W. Cooke in National Review, Justice Gorsuch noted that when he rules against a person, it is sometimes suggested that he dislikes that entire class of persons, even though there is substantial contradictory evidence in his history against making that inference. (“To Take the Slings and Arrows: A Conversation with Justice Neil Gorsuch,” 9/28/19.)

“What does any of this [i.e., environmental racism] have to do with clean air and water? Nothing, obviously. But that doesn’t mean modern environmentalism doesn’t serve a purpose or meet a need. As a theology, environmentalism speaks deeply to Americans’ elites. Its moral absolutes affirm them, adding meaning to their otherwise secular world. The collapse of mainline Protestantism left a void in the hearts of America’s ruling class. The environmental movement fills it.” —Tucker Carlson, Ship of Fools (Free Press, 2018, pp. 227–228)

Three months before the 2016 election, it was common on Fox News Network for advertisements to portray Caucasian actors making ritual mistakes in front of other, disdainful actors. This pattern ended about six months after the election. Although I did not watch CNN before the election, in 2019 I did not notice this on CNN.

“If you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with the dark psychic of the collectivized hatred this president is bringing up in this country, then I’m afraid that Democrats are going to see some very dark days.” —Marianne Williamson, Democratic Debate, 2019

“What is government but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” —James Madison, The Federalist Papers

Charles Darwin | Francis Galton | Albert Einstein | James D. Watson | Francis Crick | Marvin E.Wolfgang