This book will irritate a lot of people. It's written by a white separtist, who believes the races should be separated. I don't agree with him on that. His opinion on racial separation disgusts me.



And he is a very poor writer, although obviously a brilliant thinker.



The main thrust of the book is that different races have different average intelligences, and that this IQ difference has been one of the primary drivers of human cultural evolution. Unfortunately, I agree with his theory on average group intelligence statistics which, interestingly, don't always favor whites. (Orientals score slightly higher on IQ tests than whites)



This is an important, though technical and boring book, because it lays out in detail, a probable and reasonable case that minor variations in human evolution, such as well documented differences in IQ between blacks and whites, can have very large consequences.



This man is brilliant, and although morally disgusting, he would be the first, for example, to say that President Obama is a brilliant man, regardless of his skin color. So he's not some knee-jerk thoughtless racist. Instead, he's a thoughtful racist. In the book, he says that the way the stats work, even though black IQ is documented to be about on average 15 points lower than the white average, this still means there are 50,000 blacks in America with an IQ high enough to do Nobel Prize for Science level work.



One reason this book is important is people need honest answers about race. For instance, he says the average IQ in Africa is not high enough, to give Africans a reasonable chance at modern industrialization. Yet all our Western economic development models are based on the notion that intelligence is evenly distributed on the face of the earth. What if that is wrong? Then we continue on our current path, which will doom Africa to continuing suffering, since it may be unable to compete in the modern world.



Why not encourage educated people to move from the developed countries, to Third World countries? This would be one of the logical social policy conclusions of a book like this. Then countries like Haiti, with not enough intellectually gifted people, would stand a chance of developing a decent life for it's people.



If you are a liberal like me, this book will challenge your worldview.