I hesitate to link to this troll bait article in the New York Post, but it’s part of my job as a blogger to point to the hot topics, even if the hot topics result in bleeding on the brain.

In her new book, Any Chua of Tiger Mom fame explains that certain ethnic groups are more rich and successful than others. The “winner cultures” are the Jewish, Indians, the Chinese, Iranians, Lebanese-Americans, Nigerians, Cuban exiles, and the Mormons.

These groups — “cultural,” mind you, never “ethnic” or “racial” or “religious” — all possess, in the authors’ estimation, three qualities that they’ve identified as guarantors of wealth and power: superiority, insecurity and impulse control.

“That certain groups do much better in America than others — as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on — is difficult to talk about,” the authors write. “In large part, this is because the topic feels so racially charged.”

And so begins their cat-and-mouse polemic, in which they claim they’re courageously agitating for a greater good: the revival of America itself as a “Triple Package Culture.” It’s a series of shock-arguments wrapped in self-help tropes, and it’s meant to do what racist arguments do: scare people.

The book sounds silly, but the review was awesome. I haven’t read such good writing in the New York Post in ages.