Apr 5, 2010

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The Overman High Culture: Future of the West

Can the West and its peoples be saved? And what will this take–particularly if we are concerned with a long-term solution rather than a last ditch “stop gap?” Can a new High Culture of the West arise to secure the existence of the peoples of the West for an extended time frame? What characteristics should such a new culture have?I will assume the reader is familiar with...

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Sep 23, 2009

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Cultural Enrichment?

If there’s one argument in favor of multiculturalism that I hear far too often, its that a racially mixed nation fosters the “cultural enrichment” of its inhabitants. In other words, the individual American somehow becomes more knowledgeable about the world and its peoples, more skilled in interpersonal interactions, and just overall more refined if he is surrounded by...

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Jul 2, 2009

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D. H. Lawrence on Fenimore Cooper’s White Novels

Chapter 4 of Studies in Classic American LiteratureBenjamin Franklin had a specious little equation in providential mathematics:Rum + Savage = 0. Awfully nice! You might add up the universe to nought, if you kept on.Rum plus Savage may equal a dead savage. But is a dead savage nought? Can you make a land virgin by killing off its aborigines ?The Aztec is gone, and the...

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