…and psychopathology (~0.10) or physical traits such as height and weight (~0.20). Assortative mating pumps additive genetic variance into the population every generation, contributing to the high narrow heritability (additive…

…of its own, which fortunately is easy to fix. Social Security’s problem is that the present generation of young people is going to live longer than past generations. This means…

…from Peter Collier and David Horowitz’s Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties. He boasted of the ISI’s readiness for that counteroffensive: In addition to saving a remnant that renews…

…cause to be forgotten after their generation had passed. For (huge) example, on July 2-4, 1913, on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, there was a reunion of…

…to industry lobbying (and political corruption and/or naiveté). That’s two generations of brain damage, criminal activity, and poor health — two generations sacrificed to add a few bucks to industry…

…from generation to generation without ever being taxed. Hard to disagree with this idea. There is no justification for allowing appreciation to pass untaxed to heirs, with or without an…

…tax may force family members to liquidate to pay the death tax. It is harder than ever for families to pass down the family-run farm or business from one generation…

…that my generation have been paying into for 35 years. We cannot afford Federal health care spending. After all those tax cuts for the rich can never be reversed. Yes…

…is also unfair from an intergenerational point of view. This last point is obvious if you think about it. The current generation could abolish taxes and pay for all spending,…

…killed. Brittain’s book is a searing documentary about the utter destruction of an entire generation of British young men caused by the war. Just how many people were killed by…