By Alex Kurtagic 2
Your Choice of Treatment
From The Occidental Observer, October 13, 2009Sometime ago I visited my local surgery. At the reception desk, I was confronted with a poster, bearing Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) logo. The poster was produced by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), which is a spawn of the British government’s Department of Health. Across the top of the poster, in large white...
Read MorePatrick Buchanan on “The Affirmative Action Nobel”
From Taki’s Magazine, October 13, 2009All my life, said Voltaire, I have had but one prayer: “O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous. And God granted it.”In awarding the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the Nobel committee has just made itself look ridiculous.Consider. Though they had lead roles in ending a Cold War lasting half a century, between a nuclear-armed...
Read MoreGo Small or Go Home
“Go Small or Go Home”by Schaeferfrom The Art of Manliness, October 11, 2009. . . I found myself roaming the halls of our newly-built 3-bed, 2-bath suburban home fuming that we didn’t have enough storage space. During college I could carry everything I owned in the back of my Dodge pickup. Now 1,600 square feet was not adequate to house our growing collection of...
Read MoreTaking on City Hall, Round II
While not totally a defamation matter, we did have to take on San Jose’s city hall in regard to its recognition of employee associations centered around every ethnicity you can think of, unless pale pink skin is involved. San Jose had approved African American, Asian American, American Indian, American Latino, Filipino American, and Pacific Islander employee groups, but no...
Read MoreLouis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald
The French statesman, writer, and philosopher, Louis Vicomte de Bonald belongs to the theologist school of the Traditionalists. Bonald was born on October 2nd, 1754 at Monna, near Millau a town in the Rouergue region (Aveyron) of southern France, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Oratorian Collège de Juilly. As an aristocrat, military service was expected, so in 1773...
Read MoreJared Taylor on “The Silent Catastrophe”
From Taki’s Magazine, October 12, 2009The media love disaster. One can hardly sit through a half hour of cable news without hearing dire prophecies of “climate change” and other ecotastrophes. And over the past year, television pundits have warned incessantly that without massive Wall Street bailouts and compulsory Swine Flu vaccinations, the sky just might fall. This all...
Read MoreBy Julius Evola 1
On the Secret of Degeneration
Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, or collapse of a higher...
Read MoreBy Jonathan Bowden 0
Theseus’ Minotaur:
An Examination of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thought
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most remarkable philosophers of all time, irrespective or whether he happened to have written in the nineteenth century. In fact, he has more in common with pre-Socratic thinkers like Heraclitus, born two and a half thousand years ago in Ephesos on the Aegean. Did not Aristotle gloss his great work, On Nature, in order to inform us that seething...
Read MoreSteve Sailer on the Racial Caste System in Sports
“Blackballed?”by Steve Sailerfrom Taki’s Magazine, October 7, 2009Let’s celebrate diversity! In Division 1-A college football, 19 of the top 20 players in rushing yards are—as sports fans expect—black. Yet, the #1 rusher is a white guy.Toby Gerhart, Stanford’s 235-pound tailback, has piled up 650 yards on the ground to power lowly Stanford to a 4-1 overall...
Read MorePotemkin Equality
In 1787 the Russian count Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin organized a tour for Catherine the Great of recently annexed territories in the Crimea. Everywhere Catherine went, she saw villages filled with happy, prosperous peasants and concluded that all was well. Potemkin’s enemies, however, accused him of fooling the Empress by constructing fake villages, islands of prosperity in...
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