Name William Saletan | Education Swarth College | |
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Books Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War, Slate's Field Guide to the Candidates 2004 Profiles | ||
William saletan politics writer at slate com
William Saletan is the national correspondent at Slate.com.
Contents
- William saletan politics writer at slate com
- Background and education
- Career at Slate
- Books
- Views
- Iraq
- Intelligence studies
- Personal
- References
Background and education
William Saletan, a Jewish native of Texas, graduated from Swarthmore College in 1987.
Career at Slate
In the fall of 2004, Saletan wrote nearly daily columns covering the ups and downs of the 2004 presidential race. He currently writes Slate.com's "Human Nature" column. Previously, he wrote "Frame Game", which analyzed the way current events are spun by politicians and the media and "Ballot Box", a column devoted to politics and policy.
Books
In 2004, he wrote the book Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War.
Views
A self-described "liberal Republican", Saletan came out strongly against the re-election of George W. Bush. He described his disenchantment with the modern Republican Party in a series of dispatches from the 2004 Republican Convention.
Saletan has written several articles about bioethics and sexual ethics, criticizing what he sees as homophobia within the Roman Catholic Church.
Saletan supports legally recognizing same-sex marriages.
Iraq
While Saletan initially argued in favor of George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, later, as part of a Slate.com series marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, Saletan described the lessons he had come to learn, stating, "I wish I'd absorbed these lessons before the war. The best I can do now is remember them before the next one."
Intelligence studies
In a series initially posted on November 18, 2007 on Slate.com, Saletan assessed the relationship between race and intelligence, specifically the question of whether race is a genetically determining factor in intelligence. He ultimately did not discount the hypothesis that it is, concluding: "When I look at all the data, studies, and arguments, I see a prima facie case for partial genetic influence." Counterarguments were subsequently published by Richard Nisbett in The New York Times, Stephen Metcalf in Slate and Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker. Saletan's fourth entry in his series on race, IQ and equality, entitled "Regrets", acknowledged overlooking ties between one of his primary sources, J. Philippe Rushton, and advocates of white supremacy, saying, "I was negligent in failing to research and report this."
Personal
Saletan currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland.