Daily Archives: September 20, 2013

Boko Haram

Muslims in Africa doing what they do best: At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials. Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints … Continue reading

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Gottfried, Strauss, and Jewish Ethnocentrism

The excellent Paul Gottfried, a retired professor of humanities, is that most rare specimen in intelligentsia: a jew who is honest and forthright about jewish ethnocentrism and its historical suppression of Protestant ethnocentrism. Having written the recent book Leo Strauss … Continue reading

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Marshall Berman: Interpreter of “Urban Life”

With respect to the stereotype of the jewish-NYC-leftwing-intellectual, this obituary of one Marshall Berman is about as ideal-type as you can get: ‘In a sweat, melting, shedding clothes and tears, flashing hot and cold.” This was how Marshall Berman described … Continue reading

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