February 18, 2000

'Racist Arguments' in Transaction Book

To the Editor:

D.W. Miller interviewed me for his January 14 Hot Type article on the mass mailing of J. Philippe Rushton's abridged edition of Race, Evolution, and Behavior. Mr. Miller quoted my statement describing Rushton's work as "racial pornography," but he did not explain that I was referring to both the full and the abridged editions of Rushton's book. Rushton's argument in both editions, which D.W. Miller accurately summarized, is that "races differ in