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Tea Party Communitarian
Libertarianism vs. paleoconservatism… It’s on ongoing dialect I struggle with all the times. From an article in the American Conservative on Sen. Mike Lee’s Utah-inspired conservatism: At the Heritage Foundation in April, Lee delivered a communitarian manifesto of sorts entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Political Theory, Politics, Republican Party
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The Knockout Games
Jim Goad has a good history of Knockout Games, noting how far back it goes (“Hunting the Domestic Polar Bear“): Robbery is hardly ever a motive. It appears to be done for fun, to establish ingroup status, and to send … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-White, Black, Crime, Race
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French Revolution: Burke vs. Paine
The great Gertrude Himmelfarb reviews Yuval Levin’s The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left.
Posted in History, Political Theory
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Ancient Memories
New research findings from the radical world of epigenetics: Lab mice trained to fear a particular smell can transfer the impulse to their unborn sons and grandsons through a mechanism in their sperm, a study reveals. The research claims to … Continue reading
How Whites Took Over America
Here’s a great Thanksgiving message, playing on the hypocrisy of liberal tropes toward Thanksgiving’s origins & illegal immigration today:
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Humor, Immigration, Race
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Jewish Support of ANC
Tablet (“A New Read on Jewish Life”) is another of the many ethnocentric webzines focused on Jewish identity. “Nelson Mandela Was a Revolutionary—and These Jews Made Common Cause With Him” is an article the historical analogues of which took place … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Anti-White, Black, Jewish
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Mondoweiss
Mondoweiss is a useful website for getting the pulse of a particular strain of leftist Jewish opinion on American foreign policy. It captures the “self-loathing Jew” demographic pretty well. (Their About Us page begins: “Mondoweiss is a news website devoted … Continue reading
Posted in International, Jewish
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A Tale of Two Chucks
From a Politico story back in Jan, when Chuck Hagel was being vetted by one of Israel’s surrogates in the U.S. Senate: New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Chuck Hagel “almost had tears in his eyes” as he … Continue reading
The American Jewish Cocoon
From Peter Beinart’s NY Review of Books article “The American Jewish Cocoon” is this bit about AIPAC’s well-funded excursions for U.S. Congressmen: But to a striking degree, the same insularity characterizes debate about Israel in Washington. In part that’s because … Continue reading
Detail
From the hilariously leftist and pomo world of academia, as reported by the NYT: The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, known for his wide-ranging and accessible writings on cosmopolitanism, identity and global ethics, will be leaving Princeton for New York University … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, MSM, Postmodernism
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