Two comments are red flags right out of the gate: Serious education scholars have long abandoned the I.Q. test as a measure of intelligence, AND Instead, Howard Gardner, the Harvard psychologist, has pre-empted the dialogue on intelligence. Of course, those two things have to be true, otherwise bad things would happen.

Right there you knew the piece was going to be the standard left wing, multicultural, elite boilerplate. Apparently black Americans are catching up as well and now pass those evil white racists from the 1940's. You know the people who developed radar, napalm, nuclear power and weapons, computers, synthetic fibers, and antibiotics. The fact that he thinks he undermines "racists" who think white people are smarter than East Asians is amusing. Funny, "racists' like Herrnstein, Murray, Jensen, and Rushton all claimed the opposite, not that a Rhodes Scholar like Kristoff would know because I'm sure he never bothered reading them because they are "racist", even though Herrnstein was a professor at Harvard, Jensen at Berkeley, two of the elite bastions of leftist opinion. He is carrying on a conversation with other leftist elites who already agree with him, not with anyone who has a contrary opinion, this is what leftist interpretations of human biology has devolved into. Thanks, S.J. Gould and Jared Diamond you have now killed any pretense of scholarly or scientific objectivity, because that would be "racist".