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Author Archives: Max West
Christof Koch on ‘What is Consciousness?’
In Scientific American, Christof Koch (a giant in the field of consciousness studies) summarizes the latest status of neuronal correlates of consciousness (NCC) research, as well as the Integrated information theory (IIT), which has been the most significant theoretical development … Continue reading
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P.C. at Hanging Rock
We live at a time when even The Globe Theater, where Shakespeare’s plays were originally unveiled, has gone Full Woke. Following Peter Weir’s celebrated 1975 cinematic adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, Amazon has created a new … Continue reading
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NYT: “Mourning My (((White))) Husband in the Age of Trump”
Every single unrelenting day, the NYT features at least one story or op-ed designed to say “white people are evil”. There are several today. One is an op-ed titled “Mourning My White Husband in the Age of Trump” by Erin … Continue reading
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Post-Racial Royal Wedding = Rorschach Test
Much like the election of Zero, the Post-Racial Royal Wedding™ has become a Rorschach Test upon which angry progressives can project their Id, with all its fears and desires: Among the group of black women with whom I watched the … Continue reading
Language as a Weapon
Invited onstage, a white woman simply sings Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics, which is a cardinal sin… for a white person. The Racial Culture War is being fought in the trenches of grammar. Grammar is a weapon, a nexus of power. The … Continue reading
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Getting Thrashed by the Thrasher
Biracial people tend to possess, ironically, a lot more ‘black anger’ than full-blooded blacks. Furthermore, it often seems that the angriest are gay biracial black men. Sociologists ought to look into this phenomena to see if there’s anything there, but … Continue reading
How German-Jews Tried To Defuse Radical Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
In the annals of U.S. history, the tenuous relationship between highly-assimilated, establishment German-Jews and the huge, secondary wave of Eastern European Jews is quite an interesting one. Tablet has an article on “The Industrial Removal Office”: German American Jewish leaders … Continue reading
Too Much Attention to White People
Such is the root cause of the internal rift & purging (i.e., the anti-white virtue-spiraling) at the progressive Wellstone Action: David Wellstone and other Democrats close to his father began objecting last year to what he described as Wellstone Action’s … Continue reading
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St. Lincoln
In a saccharine piece in First Things (“Nuanced Patriotism”), Allen C. Guelzo waxes romantic over Lincoln and how his mystical legacy magically argues against tribalism, ethnonationalism, etc: American conservatives never adopted a blood-and-soil mentality the way German, Italian, and French … Continue reading
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