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Patrick Buchanan on Ethnonationalism

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“Ethnonationalism: The Wars of Tribe and Faith Return”
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Vdare.com, March 18, 2010
When 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 communist repression, helped tear apart [...]

Published: March 19, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , | 3 Comments

The Last Racialists

Richard Hoste

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
B. R. Myers
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2010
It’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. [...]

Published: February 1, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

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

Anthony Hilton

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 [...]

Published: January 29, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 4

Anthony Hilton

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 [...]

Published: January 28, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 3

Anthony Hilton

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 [...]

Published: January 27, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 2

Anthony Hilton

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 [...]

Published: January 26, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 1

Anthony Hilton

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. [...]

Published: January 25, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Ted Sallis

Ronald F. Musto
Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003
A 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 [...]

Published: October 26, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

In Hungary, Far Right is Making Gains

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By Megan K. Stack
Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2009
Komarom, 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 [...]

Published: October 18, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

Rushton on the Genetic Basis of Ethnonationalism and Altruism

J. Philippe Rushton

“Shared Genes: The Evolution of Ethnonationalism”
from Vdare.com, August 20, 2009
Jerry 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 “corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human [...]

Published: August 21, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment
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