Feb 1, 2010

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The Road to Disunion

The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861William W. FreehlingNew York: Oxford University PressIn his second volume of The Road to Disunion, William W. Freehling explores the climax of the secessionist movement in the American South. Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 takes the reader from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which reignited anti-slavery controversy...

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Aug 13, 2009

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Myth and Self-Interest

My ponderous English friend GuessedWorker of Majority Rights has weighed in on Michael O’Meara’s prize winning essay on White Nationalism and my response to it. He inclines toward the view that a materialist account of ethnic genetic interests will prove more persuasive than seductive mythic appeals in any future White racial rejuvenation in North America.GuessedWorker has...

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Aug 2, 2009

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Hunter Wallace on the Fall of Anglo-America

Homicide or Suicide?In the Occidental Observer, Kevin MacDonald engages Eric P. Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America, which is easily the second most important book (aside from The Culture of Critique) about White racial decline in the United States. A shorter review has been posted in VDARE. It doesn’t do justice to the breadth of the subject matter and isn’t worth...

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Jul 20, 2009

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Sans Jews

If Jews had never immigrated to the United States, we would undoubtedly be much better off than we are now, but we would still have a racial problem. Although Jews are clearly a menace, I don’t lay all of America’s problems at their door.(1) Racialism never put down firm roots in much of the North. States like Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota never...

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Jul 8, 2009

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Kevin MacDonald Defends Darwin from Patrick Buchanan

“Pat Buchanan on Darwin”from The Occidental Observer, July 1, 2009Pat Buchanan is without doubt the most incisive political commentator that we have. His writings on the death of the West, immigration, the neocon influence in the Republican Party, and the Israel Lobby are brilliant and courageous, and they certainly have won him no friends among the most powerful forces...

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Jun 24, 2009

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A Posthumous Revenge

Translator’s Note: The following excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Venner’s Gettysburg, one of two books he’s written on the War of Southern Secession. Like Maurice Bardèche’s Sparte et les sudistes [Sparta and the Confederates], it reflects the other side of that European anti-liberalism which crusades against everything contemporary America...

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May 23, 2009

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Race and the South, Part III:
Refuting the Neo-Confederates

Editor’s Note: This is the third and final online installment of this essay, which originally appeared in Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here. Read part II here.What do the neo-Confederates cite as evidence for their case?Their...

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May 21, 2009

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The Rebel:
An Interview with Dominique Venner

The noted French nationalist and historian speaks to the personal imperatives of white liberation. Translator’s Note: It’s testament to the abysmal state of our culture that hardly one of Dominique Venner’s more than forty books have been translated into English. Venner is more than a gifted historian who has made major contributions to the most important...

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May 20, 2009

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Race and the South, Part II:
The Civil War Really was about Slavery

Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here.Contrary to the contentions of the neo-Confederates, race, i.e. slavery, was the primary cause of both secession...

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May 18, 2009

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Race and the South, Part I:
The Real Case against Slavery

Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here.“Across our path stands the South with a flaming sword”—W. E. B. DuboisSeven weeks after the election of 1856, in which the...

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