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Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences
From The Occidental Observer, October 31, 2009Folk knowledge that “like breeds like” and theories on heredity have been around since at least the time of Plato. People have tended to notice that children look and behave like their parents. It was only after the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species that the question of where contemporary breeding...
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Fiat Money: The Fuel of Government
End the Fedby Ron PaulNew York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009How many politicians are capable of writing a book, nay, a paragraph that would be worth reading? Watching them on TV, they seem the most spineless, uninteresting group of people imaginable. It seems obvious why. In the same way diversity leads to a culture that appeals to the lowest common denominator, a popularity...
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Engaging the Right
The Republican party recently came out with a new website. The whole thing, like everything else in this country, pays homage to the God of diversity. And being an official conservative site, it of course takes the whole thing to a sickening level. Take a look at the first page of the “Heroes” section. There’s Ronald Reagan, Susan B. Anthony, a white judge who opposed...
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A God of Hate:
Review of Fall from Grace
Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas is probably the most infamous church in America. The typical reader might know them as the “God Hates Fags” church. WB has gained notoriety in the US by holding up outrageous signs outside funerals. Fall from Grace is a documentary on the group made up of interviews both from members and adversaries.A Movement from One...
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Richard Hoste on Why We Write
The most interesting thing about the writers of TOQ isn’t why we write, but why we came to write from the perspective that we have. Wanting to express oneself in print isn’t that rare. High IQ people have their journals and books while even the less intelligent have MySpace. The more interesting question is how did we come to hold such unpopular beliefs?As a hereditarian, I...
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Darwin’s Other Idea
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Natureby Geoffrey MillerNew York: Random House, 2000Darwinian evolution is seen as a cold, ruthless struggle for survival that shaped what we eventually became. But, the critic responds, whence kindness, humor, language, playfulness, art and creativity? Scientists have tried to explain altruism towards relatives...
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Hollywood’s Reach — and Limits
From The Occidental Observer, September 12, 2009When a set of beliefs becomes a society’s accepted morality, portrayals of good and evil often take stock forms. I’m younger than the majority of people who will read this, but even I am shocked with how much multiculturalism has replaced the old Ten Commandments morality as the basis of what it’s necessary to believe to be a...
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The Fed and Us
The Case Against the Fedby Murray RothbardThe Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2007If there’s a connection between opposing the federal reserve and believing in human biodiversity, it lies in the fact that people who question the conventional wisdom on one topic are more likely than the average thinker to do so on another. Finding out whether the partisans of hard currency are kooks...
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Lakeview Terrace:
Black Conservatives and White Yuppies
I’ve written on Hollywood pushing their utopia by pretending it already exists. For example, they may make a movie about a white woman stalking a black man and not mention race. Or a movie called I’m Through with White Girls that at the end reveals that race wasn’t really the issue at all. Lakeview Terrace employs this strategy in a more subtle way.The story...
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Femininity Is Natural
Taking Sex Differences Seriouslyby Steven E. RhoadsNew York: Encounter Books, 2004John Adams once famously wrote to his wife that he studied politics and war so his children could study mathematics and philosophy and his grandchildren poetry and music. Only a man of the Enlightenment could be so naive. More than two hundred years later some students do study mathematics and...
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