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Category Archives: History
Michael Walzer on “Imaginary Jews”
Michael Walzer is a prominent, A-list, liberal, political philosopher who is also very much what one might call a racially conscious Jew. Over his career Walzer has written numerous pieces on Jewish themes and Jewish identity. For example, here is … Continue reading
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
In The Nation, Eric Foner’s review of David Brion Davis’s book “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation” is a great exercise in ‘reading between the lines’: As [Davis] points out, although barely remembered today, colonization was a … Continue reading
The Atlantic’s Racially Fraught History of the American Beard
The Atlantic has an article on “The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard“. The article is a case-study for race realists to read-between-the-lines. This paragraph in the introductory section, it makes me want to grow a beard. What follows … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-White, Black, Culture, History
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Ghosts of Christmas Past
While I’ve gotten to the article belatedly, in “Ghosts of Christmas Past” Richard Spencer discusses the Germanic influence on medieval Christianity: We have become so accustomed to Christmas rituals—and so accustomed to them in the form of kitsch—that we forget … Continue reading
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Irrefutable Proof That Santa is Odin
A 10-cell cartoon, the first of which is:
Primo Levi
In The Nation, Vivian Gornick has an exceptionally well written review of Berel Lang’s book Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life. Gornick argues convincing that Primo Levi’s suicide in 1987 was not a direct result, per se, of his … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, History, Literature, Sociology
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Zealotry
Robert Gundry reviews the NYT #1 non-fiction bestseller Zealot by Reza Aslan: In his New York Times #1 best seller for nonfiction, Reza Aslan portrays the historical Jesus as a zealot who preached sedition against Rome. According to Aslan, Jesus’ … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Death of the West, History, Religion
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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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Hitler & the Hits
In “Hitler and the Hits”, Frederic Raphael reviews Ben Urwand’s book The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler. Raphael doesn’t accept the false analogy of a Jewish Hollywood appeasing the Nazis: The title of Urwand’s book is calculated to excite horrified … Continue reading
Abolitionist Porn
Derb has a good post on the Slavery-era mythos that keeps Hollywood’s incessant ‘Abolitionist Porn’ afloat.
Posted in Anti-White, Black, History, Race
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