About the Author

"I am interested in stirring things up by suggesting a new approach to the theory of intelligence."- James R. Flynn

James R. Flynn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago (New Zealand) and recipient of the University's Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. As a psychologist, he is best known for the 'Flynn effect', the documentation of massive IQ gains from one generation to another, and he has been profiled in Scientific American. The American Psychological Association has devoted a symposium and a book to his research. He has been Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford) and Distinguished Visiting Speaker at Cornell. He studied under Hans Morgenthau and Quincy Wright at the University of Chicago and on occasion, feels moved to discuss the rationality and morality of US foreign policy. His current research includes IQ and gender, whether America must accept gross inequality between races and classes, and how to reconcile philosophy, psychology and law.