Aug 30, 2009

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The Edge of the Sword

Author’s Note: Myth and science are tangential to the real issue facing us, which is about politics and preservation.  The following is an effort to sharpen (or maybe just to repeat) certain ideas presented in “The Sword.”One.The starting point for all discussions of white preservation must begin with the realization that we have entered an Interregnum, a period...

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Aug 29, 2009

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Myth, Aesthetics, Realism

GuessedWorker has a new contribution to the myth debate. It is based on this article by Madeline Bunting which addresses the political implications of new research in neuroscience.I don’t see how this in anyway undermines O’Meara’s position. If the reigning liberal understanding of human nature is ultimately exposed as an elaborate myth, which it most certainly is, then...

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Aug 20, 2009

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Myth, Facts, Self-Interest

Michael O’Meara has responded to GuessedWorker. I was going to post my two cents over there, but the brief comment grew into a blog entry.The most persuasive case for the efficacy of myths is the debate over “scientific racism” itself: the manner in which “progressives” will twist themselves into a pretzel to avoid even the most obvious facts (racial differences exist, at...

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Aug 20, 2009

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The Sword

My article “Toward the White Republic,” which recently won the TOQ essay contest (though under shady circumstances according to one critic), has been the subject of several internet discussions, most of which, typical of the medium, have produced more heat than light.Nevertheless, around the margins of this discussion and in a few genuine flashes of insight buried under...

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Jun 16, 2009

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America’s Racialist Moment, Part II:
The Scientific Racialists

Scientific RacialismRadical Racialism tended to be Southern, Protestant Christian, and rural. It had grown seamlessly out of the pro-slavery arguments before the war. The second movement in American racialism arising in the 1890s, though in practice in substantial agreement with the former, had very different philosophical underpinnings. This is the ideology generally called...

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