Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
New york: Little, Brown and Company 2009
Why do we behave morally? There’s reciprocity and looking out for our genes. For many (most, I hope) of us there’s a natural dislike of cruelty. We try not to be responsible for any extra suffering in the world. Humans also desire approval from others and [...]
In 2009, Human Events named its “Conservative of the Year.” Their choice hadn’t passed an important piece of legislation. He didn’t write a philosophical treatise on conservative principles. His selection had nothing to do with his position on healthcare, the economy, gun rights, immigration, or affirmative action. Dick Cheney became America’s most important “conservative” for his criticism [...]
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
B. R. Myers
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2010
It’s always seemed to me that if human beings were naturally more inclined to buy into a blood based nationalism than some kind of universalistic ideology than this would be strong evidence that racial loyalty had a genetic basis. [...]
“The Trappings of Right-Wing Culturalism”
In his book We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, John Derbyshire lists three ways of looking at the world, making clear his preferences are with the third: religion, culturalism, and biologism.
The religious viewpoint posits that mankind and what happens to it are the product of divine will. Culturalism proposes that differences [...]
Human Events has named Dick Cheney as their Conservative of the Year. They found John Bolton to write the article, the only person more insane than receiver of the award.
How is it, therefore, that someone who has no political ambitions can cause so much angst at the White House and in the mainstream news [...]
Whenever I tell people I favor eugenics they tell me that the state shouldn’t have such power. One thing that’s overlooked is that it already does. As Hernstein and Murray wrote in The Bell Curve:
we are as apprehensive as most other people about what might happen when a government decides to social-engineer who [...]
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December 18, 2009 | Posted in General | Tagged Eugenics, libertarianism, paternalism, Richard Hoste |
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Second Edition
Norman Finkelstein
New York: Verso, 2003
If you’re like me and have been through the American education system, you as a child may have never learned a word of Greek or Latin, the history of the Bible or been assigned to read a work by a great [...]
Today I read Any Rand’s 1963 essay “Racism.” I had read Atlas Shrugged as a teenager. It was a little too absolutist for me but I called myself a libertarian for years afterward and still do to a great extent. I find the argument that the vast majority of what states do [...]
From Taki’s Magazine, November 3, 2009
Feminism is a Darwinian blind alley. In biological terms, there is nothing that identifies a maladaptive pattern so quickly as a below-replacement level of reproduction; an immediate consequence of feminism is what appears to be an irreversible decline in the birth rate. Nations pursue feminist policies at their peril.
~Katarina Runske
It’s [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted in General | Tagged religion, Richard Hoste, white fertility |
From The Occidental Observer, October 31, 2009
Folk knowledge that “like breeds like” and theories on heredity have been around since at least the time of Plato. People have tended to notice that children look and behave like their parents. It was only after the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species [...]
