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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Multiverse
Amir Alexander reviews Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by By Max Tegmark: Zooming through a Stockholm intersection on his bicycle one morning, 18-year-old Max Tegmark never saw the truck that hit him. The blast … Continue reading
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Galaxies
Phil Plait writes: What happens when you take a 2.4-meter telescope, launch it into space, and command it to stare at one spot in the sky for a solid 14 hours, taking data both in visible light (like our eyes … Continue reading
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Fiddler vs. The Rothschilds
In Takimag, Steve Sailer has an excellent essay on various misconceptions surrounding Jewish history in Europe (“Mythos and Blood“). That history is less Fiddler on the Roof (well-known musical by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock) and more The Rothschilds (little-known … Continue reading
When Whites Become a Minority: Pt. 32,198
Since 1965, large numbers of immigrants arriving into the U.S. have been unskilled, earning low wages, and have come to depend more so on the government for things. They also (expectedly) favor large government. Kevin MacDonald discusses a recent study … Continue reading
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Jared Taylor on U.S. Immigration Policy
Jared Taylor on the history of U.S. immigration policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqQgJ3atNU#t=47
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SCOTUS Upholds Ban On Affirmative Action
Good news from SCOTUS today: The Supreme Court delivered another setback to affirmative action Tuesday, easing the way for states to bar public colleges from considering race in admissions and to prohibit officials from taking race into account in hiring … Continue reading
Frehley Responds
On Eddie Trunk’s radio show, Ace Frehley has responded to Paul Stanley’s allegations that Frehly and drummer Peter Criss are “anti-semitic”: “My fiancée is Jewish. How can I be anti-Semitic? Is he out of his mind? Forty years in the … Continue reading
Kafka’s Jewish Perspectivism
“Kafka, however unmistakable the ethnic source of his ‘liveliness’ and alienation, avoided Jewish parochialism, and his allegories of pained awareness take upon themselves the entire European—that is to say, predominantly Christian—malaise.” — John Updike, from his Introduction to Kafka’s Collected … Continue reading
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Southern Man
Billy Bob Thornton on Hollywood’s depictions of the South: Interviewer: You’re from Arkansas. Does it bother you the way the South is portrayed on film and TV? Thornton: For the most part, it’s a shame. There’s always been a slight … Continue reading
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Militant England
In “Welcome to Militant England“, Rafael Behr provides some nuance and political context to the UKIP’s rise in England: A few years ago Ukip was seen as the by-product of a Tory split. But now it appeals to disillusioned voters … Continue reading
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