Daily Archives: March 1, 2014

Competing Nationalisms in China

Ah, the joys of multiculturalism. See a pattern? BEIJING –  More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in a southwestern city in what authorities called a terrorist attack by ethnic separatists in western China, and police … Continue reading

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Competing Nationalisms in Ukraine

If you want to understand the psyche, so to speak of what’s taking place in the Ukraine, read Kevin MacDonald’s “Competing Nationalisms in Ukraine“. What is happening there now is a good case study of MacDonald’s longstanding thesis that multiculturalism … Continue reading

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Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Martin Heidegger’s philosophy centered around the increasing rootlessness, and subsequent alienation, endemic to modernity. Newly released Heidegger notebooks have ignited a debate over whether Heidegger was an anti-semite, when the real debate should center on Heidegger’s perspective on the ‘rootlessness’ … Continue reading

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