Robert Weissberg
| Robert Weissberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 |
| Education | Teaneck High School |
| Alma mater |
Bard College University of Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Political scientist |
Robert Weissberg (born 1941) is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois. He is the author of twelve books on politics and pedagogy. He has published numerous scientific papers in leading journals in political science. Weissberg has also written for magazines such as Forbes, Society, and The Weekly Standard. He has also been a speaker at American Renaissance Magazine conferences where he has been outspoken about his belief in the average mental differences between racial populations.
A graduate of Teaneck High School, Weissberg earned an A.B. from Bard College and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin. He was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and later Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He retired from the University of Illinois in 2003.
Since retiring from the University of Illinois, Weissberg's choice of topics and unapologetic stance have led him to be described as a "slaughterer of sacred cows." In his 2010 Bad Students, Not Bad Schools, he summarizes the extensive psychometric literature indicating that Hispanics and blacks have lower IQs than whites and Asians, and notes that this literature supports the conclusion that such differences are at least in part genetically determined. Weissberg's outspoken presentation of these issues has attracted negative attention from writers across the ideological spectrum, a reaction anticipated by Weissberg himself in the preface to the book: "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools might be called an Emperor’s New Clothes book—it says what everybody (or nearly everybody) knows to be true but is fearful of expressing in public—America’s educational woes just reflect our current demographic mix of students. . . . Indifference to political fashion and pressure, a let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may attitude is a great advantage in a field where nearly all research must placate various gods or at least not offend reigning check-issuing deities, liberal or conservative."
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