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Category Archives: History
“I am not an anarchist”
I just saw an actual U.S. naturalization from 1907. It is in regards to an immigrant from Germany entering the U.S. in 1907. The form is entitled “United States of America Declaration of Intention.” A paragraph that struck me is … Continue reading
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The Holocaust’s Forgotten Roma Victims
From an article on “The Holocaust’s Forgotten Roma Victims” in The Daily Beast: More than 500,000 Roma and Sinti were exterminated in the Nazis’ death camps—and it’s time to include them in the official history of the Holocaust… Between 500,000 … Continue reading
Raiders of the Lost Empire
F. Roger Devlin reviews Dan Roodt’s book, Raiders of the Lost Empire: South Africa’s ‘English’ Identity: It may surprise American readers to know that for most of South Africa’s history, the “race problem” referred to friction between the British and … Continue reading
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Stefan Zweig: The Rediscovered Jew of Mitteleuropa
The Jewish intelligentsia is ecstatic at the Stefan Zweig ‘revival’ taking place (which is basically a function of New York Jewish writers increasingly writing about Zweig.) The latest is Adam Kirsch in The New Republic (“One of Liberalism’s Greatest Defenders … Continue reading
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Abe & Sam
It appears St. Abraham Lincoln read an interesting-sounding book which, naturally, I have never heard of. (Thank you, cumulative-effect-of-bell-curve-median-historians!): It was an inscription which confounded Illinois librarians for years. On the inside cover of a ‘scientific’ book justifying racism was … Continue reading
Why Wagner Still Matters
One of the fallouts of WWII is that legitimate subjects, such as the concept of an ethnocentric character (e.g,. Germanness, Jewishness) is largely verboten as a subject… for gentile whites, that is. So, the notion of ‘Jewishness’ as reflected in … Continue reading
1776: Historical Revisionism
Daniel Hannan on the historical revisionism surrounding our country’s founding (hat tip: Punk). It’s an article with relevance for those concerned with the attempts to marginalize the uniquely British and Protestant world-view central to the country’s foundation. The American Revolution … Continue reading
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was a thinker far ahead of his time. From a TLS review of two new books on him (Robert Mayhew’s Malthus: The life and legacies of an untimely prophet and Alan Macfarlane’s Thomas Malthus And The Making Of … Continue reading
Anti-Semitism in the Hellenistic-Roman Period
Daniel, Jerry L. “Anti-Semitism in the Hellenistic-Roman Period“, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 98, No. 1. (Mar., 1979): As we have seen, Jewish religion was one reason for anti-Semitism, but perhaps a more basic cause was their exclusiveness, encouraged by … Continue reading
The Art Hitler Hated
The NY Review of Books is a very Tribe-heavy, culture-oriented publication. (Check out the names in their Masthead to see what I mean.) In their current issue, Michael Kimmelman looks at “The Art Hitler Hated“. I love how Cornelius Gurlitt … Continue reading