Oy vey.
Apparently Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute has written an article in this month’s Commentary, in which he theorizes that “the preponderance of very smart Jews throughout the ages can be traced back to evolutionary processes that began even before the destruction of the Second Temple.”
Keep in mind Murray is the author of the infamous 1996 tome “The Bell Curve,” in which he argued that “African Americans were, as a group, were less innately intelligent than white Americans.”
Sorry, you’ll have to hunt for the Commentary article yourself – but for those of you with morbid curiosities, here is an article about his article from the Jewish Forward.
You can find the article by going to http://www.Nextbook.org and clicking on it.