Daily Data Dump - Monday

I don't think I'll post about Mormons this week. Alas, less traffic. Y chromosomes of Vlax Roma. Is it a coincidence that all these Roma genetics papers are coming out at the same time that the Roma are at the center of E.U. politics? Probably. Not So Hidden Influences. Christopher Hitchens asks "Is it so offensive to note the effectiveness of the Jewish lobby?" One could read the publications of Hadassah or J. J. Goldberg's Jewish Power to get a good sense of the effectiveness and power of American Jews. And anyone who knows basic figures can see that Jews are well overrepresented in the Ivy League. Personally, I became aware of the overrepresentation of Jews among power elites by reading Norman Cantor's The Sacred Chain as a teenager. This is an issue where obviously context matters, and it isn't as much what you say as how you say it ...