Aug 7, 2009

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They Don’t Make Them Like they Used To

From The Occidental Observer, August 6, 2009On occasion of my 39th birthday, my wife organized a holiday in the Lake District in Cumbria, in the North East of England. While there we visited England’s Pencil Museum, where we learnt much about the invention and manufacture of the pencil, a tool that spawned a huge industry in the region during the Victorian era. One of the...

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Aug 1, 2009

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Rebecca Latimer Felton Defended

I must admit that I was pleased to note that my article “Rebecca Latimer Felton: Forgotten Feminist” drew an extended response from “Georgia Lawyer.” But, after reading the remarks I feel like the story of the fellow ridden out of town on a rail.  “But for the honor of the thing, I just as soon walked.”But I take solace as a self-confessed...

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Jul 21, 2009

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The Real Right? Part II

New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe by Michael O’MearaBloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2004For Part I, click here.. . .  The New Right itself in recent years has moved away not only from its early attraction to a biological view of human nature and society but also from its opposition to multiculturalism, if not to immigration as well.  The earlier...

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Jul 20, 2009

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Nietzsche’s Critique of Modernity

Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 39 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.39. Critique of modernity. — Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we...

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Jul 20, 2009

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The Real Right? Part I

New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe by Michael O’MearaBloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2004It tells us a good deal about the nature of contemporary American culture that Michael O’Meara’s important and often brilliant (but unfortunately sometimes opaquely written) account of the thought of the French “New Right” could be published in this country...

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Jul 19, 2009

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Feminism and the Destruction of the West, Part II

My goal isn’t to depress my readers.  However, I feel the need to share some thoughts I’ve had as a result of reading Roissy’s blog. I thought  I was pretty tough for believing in eugenics and a meaningless universe but some of his insights are hard even for me to swallow, and not because of lack of real world evidence.  Take this post about a 64 year-old serial killer who...

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Jul 18, 2009

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Feminism and the Destruction of the West

The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Societyby Steve MoxonCharlottesville, Va.: Imprint Academic, 2008 Most of my readers would agree that the West’s modern political correctness regarding race and gender is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has given any thought to human nature and its evolutionary source.  So the...

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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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Jun 14, 2009

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Rebecca Latimer Felton:
Forgotten Feminist

In America today, the annals of history are painstakingly raked over and then flyspecked to uncover non-white accomplishments. A mulatto draftsman employed by Thomas Edison is now being touted as an inventor. (Edison is a great annoyance to equalitarians.) On July 4th, a commentator explains with rhapsodies of joy that Porgy and Bess is the archetypal piece of American music. Why...

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Jun 6, 2009

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Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born into an upper middle class family in 1925. Author of a hundred books, playwright, and actor, he has been described as the “Leonardo da Vinci of contemporary Japan,” and is one of the few Japanese writers to have become widely known and translated in the West.The Dark Side of the SunSince World War II, the West has forgotten the Shadow soul of...

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