Mar 19, 2010

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Patrick Buchanan on Ethnonationalism

“Ethnonationalism: The Wars of Tribe and Faith Return”by Patrick J. BuchananVdare.com, March 18, 2010When the Soviet Union disintegrated, most Americans likely had never heard of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan.Yet the ethnonationalism of these Asian peoples, boiling to the surface after centuries of tsarist and...

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Feb 1, 2010

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The Last Racialists

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It MattersB. R. MyersBrooklyn: Melville House, 2010It’s always seemed to me that if human beings were naturally more inclined to buy into a blood based nationalism than some kind of universalistic ideology than this would be strong evidence that racial loyalty had a genetic basis. According to B. R. Myers in The...

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Jan 29, 2010

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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 5 (Conclusion)

Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.Read Part 3 here.Read Part 4 here.13. How do you explain the fact that a major football rivalry for Tunisians seems to be with other North Africans, Moroccans, rather than with people more distantly related?Because Morocco is there. Close by. That’s one answer. But this is a frequent phenomenon in sport and is essentially the same issue as in...

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Jan 28, 2010

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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 4

Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.Read Part 3 here.11. Doesn’t the success of multiculturalism show that having the same ancestry is not necessary for a harmonious society as long as people do speak a common language? It depends on how much “harmony” you would settle for. To achieve the harmony of an ethnically homogeneous nation, you would need more than just a common...

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Jan 27, 2010

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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 3

Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.6. How do we reach reciprocity from “might-makes-right”?The same way it was done in the Wild West. Try to introduce the “rule of law” (a form of reciprocity insofar as it results from social contract, not imposition) and hire good sheriffs who shoot straight—something never appreciated by the outlaws or by governments of powerful...

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Jan 26, 2010

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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 2

Read Part 1 here.3. Why aren’t the nearly 100 percent of our genes that everyone shares more important than those few that vary?Indeed, around 99.9 percent of all the genes that a human being carries can be found in all other humans, and 98 percent in chimpanzees. Similar percentages of shared genes are found in most other animal species. So obviously it’s the tiny handful of...

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Jan 25, 2010

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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 1

Editor’s Note: The following essay is a slightly revised version of one that appeared in print in The Occidental Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 2005). For ease of online reading, it is presented here without notes, which can be found in the archived version of the print edition. I should, however, mention that Dr. Hilton’s argument is heavily indebted to Frank...

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Oct 26, 2009

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Roman Apocalypse:
Cola di Rienzi and the Politics of Proto-Fascism

Ronald F. MustoApocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New AgeBerkeley: University of California Press, 2003A young Italian nationalist leads his followers on a march through Rome, seizing power from corrupt elites to establish a palingenetic regime. Declaring himself Tribune, his ultimate aim is to recreate the power and glory of Ancient Rome. However, a...

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Oct 18, 2009

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In Hungary, Far Right is Making Gains

By Megan K. StackLos Angeles Times, October 11, 2009Komarom, Hungary — The right-wing demonstrators have gathered here on the fringe of a long-lost empire, near the border with Slovakia, the banks of the Danube, along rusting train tracks that stretch northwest to Vienna.They wear wraparound sunglasses, leather vests and combat boots; and they knot around their necks the red...

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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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