{"id":2144,"date":"1994-11-03T23:31:30","date_gmt":"1994-11-04T03:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:53:45","slug":"professor-itzkoff-publishes-controversial-book-gives-round-table-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1994\/11\/03\/professor-itzkoff-publishes-controversial-book-gives-round-table-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Itzkoff publishes controversial book, gives Round Table talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 3, 1994<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Itzkoff publishes controversial book, gives Round Table talk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith College Professor of Education Seymour Itzkoff published a book called The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal. In it, Itzkoff linked intelligence with genetics, claiming that the United States was in decline because more people from the \u201cunintelligent\u201d lower classes were having children than from the \u201cintelligent\u201d upper classes. He claimed his arguments weren\u2019t racist or otherwise problematic, but many Smith students disagreed, leading to Itzkoff giving a Round Table talk at Duckett House about the views he expressed in his book.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the book\u2019s publication and the talk can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.10.-Itzkoff%E2%80%99s-New-Book-Spawns-Controversy-at-Smith-1.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.10.-Itzkoff%E2%80%99s-New-Book-Spawns-Controversy-at-Smith-2.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.10.-Itzkoff%E2%80%99s-New-Book-Spawns-Controversy-at-Smith-9.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 9<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sophian letters to the editor can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.10.-Opinion-Page-Letters-to-the-Editor-10.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.17.-Opinion-Page-Letters-to-the-Editor-10_.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 3, 1994 Professor Itzkoff publishes controversial book, gives Round Table talk Smith College Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[106,71,44],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-106","tag-itzkoff","tag-population-control","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}