Editing Andrew Sullivan (section)

=== Race ===
As editor at ''[[The New Republic]]'', Sullivan published excerpts from the 1994 book ''[[The Bell Curve]]'', by [[Richard Herrnstein]] and [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]]. The book, which contains a chapter about [[IQ]] in society and public policy, argues that there are innate differences in intelligence among [[Race (human categorization)|racial groups]].<ref name=":1" /> This view of an innate connection between [[race and intelligence]] is rejected by the majority of scientists.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jackson |first1=John P. |last2=Winston |first2=Andrew S. |title=The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence |journal=Review of General Psychology |date=March 2021 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=3–26 |doi=10.1177/1089268020953622 |quote=[G]eneticists largely reject the conclusions of hereditarian psychology" (p. 5). "Hereditarians thus create an illusion of mainstream research while remaining a minor outlier in psychology (p. 7)}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bird |first1=Kevin A. |title=No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |date=June 2021 |volume=175 |issue=2 |pages=465–476 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.24216|pmid=33529393 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Birney |first1=Ewan |author-link=Ewan Birney |last2=Raff |first2=Jennifer |author-link2=Jennifer Raff |last3=Rutherford |first3=Adam |author-link3=Adam Rutherford |last4=Scally |first4=Aylwyn |date=24 October 2019 |title=Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer |url=http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscience-an-explainer.html |website=Ewan's Blog: Bioinformatician at large |quote='Human biodiversity' proponents sometimes assert that alleged differences in the mean value of IQ when measured in different populations – such as the claim that IQ in some sub-Saharan African countries is measurably lower than in European countries – are caused by genetic variation, and thus are inherent. . . . Such tales, and the claims about the genetic basis for population differences, are not scientifically supported. In reality for most traits, including IQ, it is not only unclear that genetic variation explains differences between populations, it is also unlikely. |access-date=11 April 2023 |archive-date=3 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403195952/http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscience-an-explainer.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Aaron |first1=Panofsky |author-link=Aaron Panofsky |last2=Dasgupta |first2=Kushan |date=28 September 2020 |title=How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics |journal=American Journal of Biological Anthropology |volume=175 |issue=2 |pages=387–398 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.24150 |pmc=9909835 |pmid=32986847 |s2cid=222163480 |quote=[T]he claims that genetics defines racial groups and makes them different, that IQ and cultural differences among racial groups are caused by genes, and that racial inequalities within and between nations are the inevitable outcome of long evolutionary processes are neither new nor supported by science (either old or new).}}</ref><ref name=":03">{{cite journal |last1=Nisbett |first1=Richard E. |author-link1=Richard E. Nisbett |last2=Aronson |first2=Joshua |last3=Blair |first3=Clancy |last4=Dickens |first4=William |last5=Flynn |first5=James |author-link5=Jim Flynn (academic) |last6=Halpern |first6=Diane F. |author-link6=Diane F. Halpern |last7=Turkheimer |first7=Eric |date=2012 |title=Group differences in IQ are best understood as environmental in origin |url=http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20Online%20CV/Nisbett%20(2012)%20Group.pdf |journal=American Psychologist |volume=67 |pages=503–504 |doi=10.1037/a0029772 |issn=0003-066X |pmid=22963427 |access-date=22 July 2013 |number=6 |archive-date=23 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123114230/http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20Online%20CV/Nisbett%20(2012)%20Group.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a 2015 article in ''The New Republic'', "The New Republic's Legacy on Race", [[Jeet Heer]] called Sullivan's decision an example of the magazine's "myopia on racial issues".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Heer |first1=Jeet |title=The New Republic's Legacy on Race |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/120884/new-republics-legacy-race |magazine=The New Republic |date=29 January 2015 |access-date=13 August 2020 |archive-date=15 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815083029/https://newrepublic.com/article/120884/new-republics-legacy-race |url-status=live }}</ref> The importance of Sullivan to the popularization of ''The Bell Curve'' and [[Scientific racism|race science]] was noted by [[Matthew Yglesias]], who called Sullivan "the punditocracy's original champion of Murray's thinking on genetics".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yglesias |first1=Matthew |title=The Bell Curve is about policy. And it's wrong. |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17182692/bell-curve-charles-murray-policy-wrong |work=Vox |date=10 April 2018 |access-date=13 August 2020 |archive-date=22 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722041900/https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17182692/bell-curve-charles-murray-policy-wrong |url-status=live }}</ref> Similarly, Gavin Evans wrote in ''The Guardian'' that Sullivan "was one of the loudest cheerleaders for ''The Bell Curve'' in 1994" and that he "returned to the fray in 2011, using his popular blog, The Dish, to promote the view that population groups had different innate potentials when it came to intelligence."<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Evans |first=Gavin |date=2 March 2018 |title=The unwelcome revival of 'race science' |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science |access-date=11 April 2023 |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220023319/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science |url-status=live }}</ref>