Revolutionary nepotism

America's lack of intellectual discourse on nepotism and dynasticism provides a near perfect example of what Harvard's human nature scholar Steven Pinker calls (with a nod to David Hume's "naturalistic fallacy") the "moralistic fallacy." We think these phenomena ought not to exist and therefore we speak and write as if they do not exist. This is a luxury we simply can no longer afford.

Steve Sailer is the National Correspondent for UPI, a columnist for www.VDARE.com and the film critic for the American Conservative.

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