Today's links

• From Steve Sailer: why elite college presidents love racial preferences. America is increasingly stratified by IQ, and the resulting class war that the clever are waging upon the clueless means that having Harvard’s endorsement of your brainpower is ever more desirable. Thus, applications and SAT scores have skyrocketed over the last half century. Yet, Harvard’s IQ elitism sharply contradicts its professed egalitarianism. What they fear is opposition to their use of IQ sorting mechanisms, such as the politically incorrect but crucial SAT, from those identity politics pressure groups who perform below average in a pure meritocracy, such as women, blacks, and Hispanics. But, they each boast enough high-IQ activists, like Nancy Hopkins, to make trouble for prestige universities. So, Harvard, like virtually all famous universities, buys off females and minorities with “a commitment to diversity” – in other words, quotas.
• From Cracked: five terrifying things found in the last place you’d expect.
• From LRC: the great college hoax.
• About that Jesus-wife story.
• From RR: The trouble with the church using the state.
• From Ad Orientem: 1 in 5 Americans reports no religious affiliation. Better than the headline that screamed at me last night that Protestants are no longer the majority, which was misleading. Many of these people are lapsed Protestants, and nondenominational churches are a kind of Protestant.
• From antiwar.com: ‘deficit hawk’ Romney will explode military spending.