STEVE SAILER: The Atlantic: Beards are racist. “Rather than promoting two complicated theories of how Americans and Brits came up with the same look at about the same time for separate reasons involving African-Americans and American Indians in America but presumably not in England, isn’t it more plausible that provincial Americans like Abraham Lincoln were mostly following fashions being set in Dickens’ London, the richest, most progressive, most dominant city in the world around 1860?”