William Saletan is closing out his series on Race, Intelligence and Genes. It is a disappointment.

from: William Saletan
All God's Children
Posted Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, at 7:54 AM ET

Why write about this topic? Why hurt people's feelings? Why gratify bigots?

Because truth matters. Because the truth isn't as bad as our ignorant, half-formed fears and suspicions about it. And because you can't solve a problem till you understand it.

Two days ago, I said we could fight the evidence of racial differences in IQ, or we could accept it. Yesterday I outlined the difficulty of fighting it. What happens if we accept it? Can we still believe in equality?

Mr. Saletan feels he's done a good thing here. There's a number of comment threads at Slate that question that assumption, as do I.