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 31, 2010

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Taking Our Own Side

We all have natural partialities: for family over non-kin, friends over strangers, fellow countrymen over foreigners, racial brethren over members of other races. Philosophers from Aristotle to Carl Schmitt have recognized that these partialities are the heart of political life.But most moralists eye these partialities with suspicion. Moral laws, they claim, apply to everyone,...

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Jan 1, 2010

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Don’t Eat the Strange Fruit

There has been some discussion on the Internet about the book Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate by South Asian intellectual Kenan Malik, a book in which the work of Frank Salter is sharply critiqued. Now, the person best suited to answer Malik is Salter himself; further, I don’t see Malik introducing any novel arguments beyond that already presented by...

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Aug 21, 2009

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Rushton on the Genetic Basis of Ethnonationalism and Altruism

“Shared Genes: The Evolution of Ethnonationalism”from Vdare.com, August 20, 2009Jerry Z. Muller a professor at Catholic University, (“Us and Them,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008, and “Replies,” July/August 2008) argued that the power of ethnic nationalism “will drive global politics for generations to come” because it...

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