the “gender gap.”rnCongratulations, Chronicles, you’verntextualized it. Even if you had made thernprudent decision to throw in an essay byrna token woman or two, your plans reealrnthe basic mentality at work. And it’srnthat mentalitv that the women I knowrnreally do not want.rnLike Chronicles, Freud had amplernopportunities to get good answers to hisrnfamous question. He ignored them, likernChronicles. Is this similarity because ofrnshared conservative values, which, farrntoo often, both in Freud’s Vienna a centuryrnago and in the later 20th-centuryrnUnited States, require ignoring thernactual concerns of real women?rn—Martine Watson BrownleyrnWomen’s Studies ProgramrnEmory UniversityrnAtlanta, GArnOn Crime and RacernSteven Goldberg’s honesty (“BlackrnMurder,” January 1995) is much to bernadmired, but it does not penetraternnearly far enough to the causes of racialrndisparities in crime. What is yet to bernacknowledged is the race/crime relationshiprnthat is common worldwide. Thernmatrix found within the I’nited States,rnwith Asians being the most law-abiding,rnAfricans the least, and Europeans intermediate,rnis also evident in other multiracialrncountries like Britain, Brazil, andrnCanada. I have published seeral sets ofrndata from recent Interpol yearbooksrnshowing that African and Caribbeanrncountries consistently average doublernthe rate of violent crime (an aggregaternof murder, rape, and serious assault)rnthan European countries, and threerntimes more than countries in the PacificrnRim. Whatever the causes of the racialrnpattern in crime, it is clear that they gornbeyond American particulars.rnOne neurohormonal contributor torncrime is testosterone. As I review in myrnbook Race, Evolution, and Behavior,rnstudies show 3 percent to 19 percentrnmore testosterone in black college studentsrnand military veterans than in theirrnwhite counterparts, with the Japanesernshowing lower amounts than whites.rnSex hormones go everywhere in thernbody and have been shown to activaternmany brain-behavior systems involvingrncrime, personality, and sexual behavior.rnStatistics from the World Health Organizationrnand U.S. Centers for DiseasernControl and Prevention reveal greaterrnsexual activity, higher fertility, andrngreater rates of AIDS in African thanrnEuropean and East Asian populations.rnRace differences in crime do not existrnindependently of these other variables,rnand they cannot be understood withoutrntaking into account biological andrnneurohormonal processes and ultimatelyrngenetic and evolutionary explanations.rn—/. Philippe RushtonrnProfessor of PsychologyrnUniversity of Western OntariornLondon, OntariornCULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnWHEN CHRONICLES talks, peoplernlisten—at least in New Zealand. Irnhave had my allotted 15 minutes of totalrnfame, all because of a couple of paragraphsrnsnatched by the Kiwi press out ofrna little piece of mine (Letter From InnerrnIsrael, “Sorting Out Jew-Haters”) printedrnin these pages in March.rnReaders will recall that I reflectedrnon the problem of sorting out the manyrndiverse forms of hostility to Jews andrnJudaism. Specifically, I referred to threernincidents I experienced while in NewrnZealand last summer which set mernthinking not about what is, but whatrnis not, appropriately labeled “anti-rnSemitism.” I never suggested NewrnZealand was a fascist, anti-Semiticrncountry—that was the judgment of arnprofessor at Wiikato University, whom Irnquoted and whose outrageous opinion Irnrejected. The pinpricks I did noticernstruck me not as anti-Semitic but asrngauche, provincial, and uncomprehending.rnTo make that point, I set into contextrntlie obser’ations I made during myrnwinter in a cold country, a place far offrnthe beaten track, where little happensrnthat matters to anybody anywhere else—rnthat is, life in nowhere special, where allrnof us live who are fortunate; in the heartrnof the human condition.rnSince a reporter in Christchurch hadrntaken an interest in my prior reflectionsrnon Canterbury University, I sent him anrnadvance copy of the article. He wrote arnstory about it, and poor O.J. Simpsonrnlost his place to me as the prime Americanrnnews item in the New Zealandrnpress. The Christchurch Press put thernstory on the Kiwi counterpart to the APrnwire; it appeared all over the country.rnThe Press even published an editorialrnof its own—a bit inane, but quite augustrnin all.rnBut it did not end there—nor withrnmore editorials elsewhere, follow-uprnstories, and columns and columns ofrnmighty hot letters to the editor. RadiornNew Zealand called from Wellingtonrnfor a live interview. When I returnedrntheir call, they interrupted their morningrntalk show to put me right on the air.rnThey spent 30 minutes of expensiverntrans-Pacific phone time hectoring mernon my observations, along the lines of,rn”Do you really think it’s cold on thernSouth Island in July?”rn”Yes, very cold.”rn”Do you think you’ll be invitedrnback?”rn”Not to Canterbur’ University.”rn”Would you go?”rn”I’m busy next year and the yearrnafter, but try me in 1998.”rnFinally, at the climax of perfect fame.rnNew Zealand TV asked me to comernback to Auckland to take up the argumentrnon their Sixty Minutes. “We knowrnwhat other people say about you, nowrnwe want you to have your say.” This isrnsummer in New Zealand, so I wouldrnhelp on a slow news day.rnWhen, thinking the controversyrnsomewhat disproportionate, I said I sawrnno point in pursuing the matter, havingrnMAY 1995/5rnrnrn