Jan 9, 2012

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Elite and Underclass

Elite and Underclass

At 416 pages, Coming Apart is Charles Murray’s most substantial offering since 2003’s Human Accomplishment. It continues a theme familiar to readers of The Bell Curve: increasing American social stratification. Murray focuses on whites because otherwise the social trends he describes might lazily be explained away as effects of demographic change...

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Apr 7, 2010

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Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century

Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-first CenturyJohn GladSchuylkill Haven, Penn.: Hermitage Publishers, 2006As the genetic revolution accelerates its pace, over the last few years there have been numerous books written on eugenics. The majority of these are intended to link eugenics with Adolf Hitler, white supremacy, or the terrible inhumanity of forced sterilizations....

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Apr 5, 2010

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Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Note: The following short synthesis of Schmitt’s classic essay The Concept of the Political stems, in part, from a recent discussion with the Bay Area Nationalist Book Club.However it is posed, the question of the political is always about the most important issue facing every people.The political, though, is not to be confused with “politics” or...

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Mar 28, 2010

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The Golden Thread

El Cordón Dorado: Hitlerismo EsotericoMiguel SerranoBogota, Colombia: Editorial Solar, 2001As far as I am aware, this is the first published review in English of The Golden Thread: Esoteric Hitlerism, the first volume in Miguel Serrano’s Esoteric Hitlerist trilogy. Having woven a shadowy conspiracy of Esoteric Hitlerists into my dystopian novel Mister, and having recently...

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Mar 3, 2010

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The Dark Side of Progress

Eating AnimalsJonathan Safran FoerNew york: Little, Brown and Company 2009Why 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 usually being a scoundrel isn’t good for your...

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Mar 3, 2010

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The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912Roald AmundsenLondon: Hurst & Company, 2001(First Published in 1912 by John Murray)Having reviewed Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s account of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition, and having over the Yuletide read Scott’s diaries from the latter, I deemed it opportune to read Roald...

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Feb 18, 2010

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The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2: 1968-1974

The Art of Jonathan Bowden, vol. 2: 1968-1974Jonathan BowdenLondon: The Spinning Top Club, 2009Last time I saw Jonathan Bowden, I asked him how he was. His answer, delivered with bared teeth and so typical of him, elicited peals of laughter from Bowden himself, “I am always superb and getting stronger!” Bowden, you see, loves an audience, but he is quite able to...

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Feb 11, 2010

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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 3 (Conclusion)

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom RockmoreNew Haven: Yale University Press, 2009Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.Three.Race and StateFrom the above, the reader might conclude that Faye’s Heidegger is a wreck of a book.  And, in large part, it is, as I will...

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Feb 10, 2010

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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 2

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom RockmoreNew Haven: Yale University Press, 2009Read Part 1 here.Two.Faye’s ArgumentHeidegger’s seminars of 1933 and 1934, in Emmanuel Faye’s view, expose the “fiction” that separates Heidegger’s...

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Feb 9, 2010

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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 1

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom RockmoreNew Haven: Yale University Press, 2009National Socialism was defeated on the field of battle, but it wasn’t defeated in the realm of thought.Indeed, it’s undefeatable there because the only thing its enemies...

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