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William Saletan is the national correspondent at Slate.com.
Background and education
William Saletan, a Jewish native of Texas, graduated from Swarthmore College in 1987.
Career at Slate
Saletan gained recognition in the fall of 2004 with 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.
Views
A self described "liberal Republican", Saletan came out strongly against the re-election of George W. Bush. He investigated the source of his disenchantment with today's Republican Party in a series of dispatches from the 2004 Republican Convention.
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
Main article: Race and intelligenceIn a series initially posted on November 18, 2007 on Slate.com, Saletan assessed 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."
The Roman Catholic Church
Saletan has written several articles about bioethics and sexual ethics, criticizing what he sees as homophobia within the Roman Catholic Church.
Books
In 2004, he wrote the book Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War.
Personal
Saletan currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland.
References
- Slate Magazine
- Why Did We Get It Wrong?
- How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?
- [http://www.slate.com/id/2178122/entry/2178124/
- Pope Benedict's antigay tendencies
- Stanley I. Kutler. "Our Thirty Years' War: the fight over abortion". The Los Angeles Times.