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“It is well-nigh impossible to publish in the American newspapers any reflection upon certain religions or races which are hysterically sensitive even when mentioned by name…” — Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race (1921), p. xxxi.
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Death of the West, Political Correctness
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Barone Defends Richwine
It’s been a pleasure watching Michael Barone not only drift increasingly rightward over the past decade, but also deliver his opinion in an unmitigated way. In his recent Washington Examiner column, he gives a full-throated defense of Jason Richwine, impressive … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Political Correctness
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How The West Didn’t Win
“Today the term racism has come to mean almost any recognition of race…and of difference (or average differences) between groups.” — Ed West [Via: Derb] After four years of writing a ‘controversial’ column for the Telegraph, Ed West is no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness, Race
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Jason Richwine & The Future of Conservatism Inc.
James Kirkpatrick has an excellent column, the best I’ve yet read, on the Richwine lynching’s implications for the future of conservatism.
Posted in Culture Wars, HBD
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Leaving Portlandia
In “Leaving Portlandia“, Jennifer Wyatt explains why she is leaving the hipster-factory of Portland, Oregon: There have been two universal reactions to my announcement that I was going to move from Portland to the Midwest: surprise and disbelief. But I … Continue reading
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NAACP on IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups
To liberals, it’s okay for the IRS to target a group when that group is ‘racist‘: Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, joined anchor Thomas Roberts on MSNBC on Tuesday where he … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-White, Black, Cultural Marxism
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Richwine Redux
John Derbyshire, who has firsthand experience of such things, has an excellent column on the Jason Richwine witch hunt. Sailer (does the guy ever sleep?) has tons of incomparably good stuff on the subject as well. The Richwine episode is … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, HBD, Political Correctness, Race
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Richwine Resigns
Race realism’s latest sacrificial lamb: The Heritage Foundation announced the resignation Friday of senior policy analyst Jason Richwine, co-author of a controversial report critical of the Senate’s immigration reform bill. After Heritage issued the report this week, news articles pointed … Continue reading
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Schumpeter on Keynes
“He was childless and his philosophy of life was essentially a short-run philosophy.” — from Joseph Schumpeter’s obituary of John Maynard Keynes, in the American Economic Review, September 1946. More on the Ferguson kerfuffle from the left and the right.
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Art as a Sense of Place
Sailer has a piece on the futuristic architecture of John Lautner, whose work captured the “the shiny, optimistic, future-infatuated Southern California that peaked in the early 1960s.” As with Tiki culture, I absolutely love the imagined future represented by 1960s-era, … Continue reading
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