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Another True Story of Thanksgiving
There are many “true stories” of Thanksgiving from the point of view of those who wish to deconstruct the civic pieties of liberal America in addition to the one in Mr. Hunter Wallace’s little feature.One of them that I have heard pointed out since childhood is that modern Thanksgiving was created by Lincoln as a day for the North to give thanks over the success...
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Shockley Vindicated
A highly revealing review of a recent biography of William Shockley includes many nuggets worth mining, such as this choice one:What transformed the giant of the semiconductor revolution into an aging crank who insisted on taping every phone call to his home?The reviewer poses his question rhetorically under the belief (unfortunately correct) that most readers — being their...
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A Modest Proposal
From an address to the 2008 American Renaissance Conference, in Herndon, Virginia, on February 24, 2008. In the many decades I have toiled in the vineyards of American racial nationalism, I have heard very few solutions offered to our people. We have been long on problems and negativity, and very short on solutions. This is a failure of leadership.Instead of real leadership, some...
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Remembering Harry Patch
It is appropriate for us to mark the death on July 25th of Harry Patch. Aged 111 years, Harry Patch was the last surviving British soldier from our race’s First Peloponnesian War of the last century (World War I).These two fratricidal wars — like the original ones among the Greeks of Antiquity — pretty much accomplished the complete and possibly fatal...
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Race and the South, Part III:
Refuting the Neo-Confederates
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final online installment of this essay, which originally appeared in Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here. Read part II here.What do the neo-Confederates cite as evidence for their case?Their...
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Race and the South, Part II:
The Civil War Really was about Slavery
Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here.Contrary to the contentions of the neo-Confederates, race, i.e. slavery, was the primary cause of both secession...
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Race and the South, Part I:
The Real Case against Slavery
Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here.“Across our path stands the South with a flaming sword”—W. E. B. DuboisSeven weeks after the election of 1856, in which the...
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“Salus Populi Lex Suprema”
This essay is based on a talk given at The Occidental Quarterly Editor’s Dinner on July 26, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.White people have a penchant for abstract thinking. This is one of the glories of our race, making possible advances in philosophy, mathematics, science, and technology. But it is also a danger, for white people can become so fixated on abstractions that we lose...
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