Jan 20, 2010

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Macroevolution, Microevolution, & Race

Ordinarily the study of human evolution focuses on the species as a whole and its supposed descent from prehominid species. But race is preeminently a subspecies phenomenon. Race (as opposed to species) formation and destruction can occur with great rapidity on the microevolutionary as opposed to the macroevolutionary time scale.The microevolution/macroevolution distinction is...

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Oct 14, 2009

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The Cause of the Peoples?

Editor’s Note: The idea of the “cause of the peoples” is associated primarily with Alain de Benoist. It is an attempt to fuse European ethnonationalism with a kind of liberal universalism by asserting that European ethnonationalists are not merely fighting for their own cause, but for the cause of all peoples to preserve their distinctness — that they are...

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Sep 21, 2009

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Darwin’s Other Idea

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Natureby Geoffrey MillerNew York: Random House, 2000Darwinian evolution is seen as a cold, ruthless struggle for survival that shaped what we eventually became.  But, the critic responds, whence kindness, humor, language, playfulness, art and creativity?  Scientists have tried to explain altruism towards relatives...

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Aug 14, 2009

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Evolving into Consumerism — and Beyond It

Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer BehaviorGeoffrey MillerNew York: Viking, 2009When I was asked to review this book, I half groaned because I was sure of what to expect and I also knew it was not going to broaden my knowledge in a significant way. From my earlier reading up on other, but tangentially related subject areas (e.g., advertising), I already knew, and it seemed more...

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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 13, 2009

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A Clockwork Orange

As is the norm for Kubrick movies, the critics did not seem entirely comfortable with this avant garde movie. They claimed that it was just a crude and very dangerous display of sado-masochism dressed up as high art.And, of course, on a marketing level the critics were absolutely right. This is not a movie you want your kids to see or your adult friends and acquaintances to...

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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 27, 2009

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Kevin MacDonald on Evolutionary Psychology

“Evolutionary Psychology: The Really Dangerous Idea Is That It’s Wrong”by Kevin MacDonaldfrom The Occidental Observer, June 14, 2009Sharon Begley is at it again, flailing away at evolutionary psychology because it doesn’t fit well with her feminist, liberal agenda. This is ironic because evolutionary psychology owes its very existence to political...

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