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Category Archives: Death of the West
Alasdair MacIntyre on the BenOp
From Alasdair MacIntyre’s seminal philosophy book After Virtue (hat tip: Rod Dreher): It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been … Continue reading
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Looking for an Adventure
In a short post, Steve Sailer makes another stellar and unique observation on a huge and terribly important phenomenon (“Why Are the Young Men of Africa Flocking to Europe?”): I tried looking up the news from Senegal to see if … Continue reading
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Lifeboat Ethics
From Derb, I learned of this decades-old article by Garrett Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor” (Psychology Today, September 1974), which provides a useful thought experiment surrounding the problem of pathological altruism: So here we sit, say … Continue reading
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India & Muslims
In certain parts of the world, influxes of Muslim immigrants is dealt with differently than here in the U.S. From The Daily Caller: Indian officials are registering Bangladeshi residents in the state of Assam in an apparent bid to reduce … Continue reading
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Safe East European Home
From “Safe East European Home” by Ruuben Kaalep: The greatest asset of nationalism in Eastern Europe is its people’s extant connection with their soil. While in the West, large scale urbanization — which simply means the globalization of the homeland … Continue reading
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After November: Codevilla
Angelo Codevilla, whose 2010 book The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It is a contemporary update to ideas proposed Sam Francis as well as Alt-Right pioneer James Burnham, has a new, must-read column titled “After … Continue reading
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Culture Arises From The Cult
“We must remind ourselves, to begin, that culture arises from the cult: out of the religious bond and the sense of the sacred grow any civilization’s agriculture, its common defense, its orderly towns, its ingenious architecture, its literature, its music, … Continue reading
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Czech President: Integrating Muslims is Impossible
“Integrating Muslims into Europe is ‘impossible’, says Czech president” reads The Guardian headline. Czech president Milos Zeman, known for his fiery anti-migrant rhetoric, claimed on Sunday it was “practically impossible” to integrate the Muslim community into European society. “The experience … Continue reading
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Joan of Arc’s Shaky Pedestal
Every day, one can find stories that (however tangentially) come to grips with the profound identity crisis the West is going through. In even the most liberal of Overton Windows (e.g., the NYT), something appears to be breaking through. Enter … Continue reading
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Generation Jihad
From The Sun: An Islam expert has warned of a civil war across Europe as more young Muslims are being increasingly radicalised. Professor Gilles Kepel, from the Sciences Po in Paris, claims a growing number of Muslims with poor job … Continue reading
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