Science and Politics Writer

William Saletan

2 articles 2017

William Saletan is a journalist and writer known for his long tenure at Slate, where he covered science, technology, and politics. He is currently a writer at The Bulwark. His contributions to The Weekly Standard in 2017 focused on Google's handling of internal debates about diversity and ideological differences.

Google Missed an Opportunity to Talk About Differences

August 26, 2017 · Features, Political Correctness, technology

Every few years, somebody gets pushed out of a job for suggesting that one group of people, on average and in part due to biology, scores differently from another group on some measure of attitude or aptitude. Ten years ago, it was DNA pioneer James Watson, who said blacks registered below whites…

The Conversation Google Killed

August 25, 2017 · James Damore, Features, Political Correctness

Every few years, somebody gets pushed out of a job for suggesting that one group of people, on average and in part due to biology, scores differently from another group on some measure of attitude or aptitude. Ten years ago, it was DNA pioneer James Watson, who said blacks registered below whites…