-A Distant Mirror by B. Tuchman (pp.141-142)
In one medieval village game, peasants with both hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of their cheeks ripped open or...
View ArticleAyelam on Thucydides
(note to myself for future reference) Several years ago, before I discovered Popper, I read Thucydides and his account of the Peloponnesian War. After about 150 pages of reading I began to despise the...
View ArticleBeverly Cleary on turning 100: Kids today ‘don’t have the freedom’ I had
“I think children today have a tough time, because they don’t have the freedom to run around as I did — and they have so many scheduled activities.” In her youth, she points out, “mothers did not work...
View ArticleJews as a Hostile Elite in the USSR — by Kevin MacDonald
This is a forbidden bit of history that I’m quietly obsessed with. The truth is very dark and disturbing. “When the Jews achieved power in Russia, it was as a hostile elite with a deep sense of...
View ArticleA Review of Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
Suppose you could a) improve your own IQ by 10 points, or b) improve the IQs of your countrymen (but not your own) by 10 points. Which would do more to increase your income? The answer is (b), and it’s...
View ArticleSJWs Are Purging Politically Incorrect Sci-Fi Authors From Bookstores
Are progressives going to add these books to their banned book lists? Answer: no. Banned book lists are a tool for ridiculing Christians....
View ArticleIsrael bans novel on Arab-Jewish love story
Will this make it onto those banned book lists that progressives love chatting about? http://www.dw.com/en/israel-bans-novel-on-arab-jewish-love-story/a-18952957
View ArticleReview of “Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups”
The argument Singh makes in his book is simple and compelling: Coup attempts are best understood as coordination games, or “situations in which each individual has an incentive to do what others are...
View ArticleThe Hypocrisy of Guns, Germs, and Steel Author Jared Diamond
Another Jewish supremest fighting racism. http://inconvenienthistory.com/archive/2011/volume_3/number_3/race_and_history_part_1.php
View ArticleThe Cathedral’s double standard.
Curt: —Peaceful, law-abiding tea-party groups who cleaned up after their protests — and got legal permits for them — were signs of nascent fascism lurking in the American soul. Violent, anarchic, and...
View ArticleHow long will it be possible for censoring, dogmatic liberals to celebrate...
Ugh. Agonizing literary interview. How long will it be possible for censoring, dogmatic liberals to celebrate their victory over the censoring, dogmatic church via pornography? Isn’t it painfully...
View ArticleAmerica’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder...
“Earlier than many other states, Pennsylvania tried to raise taxes to cover its mounting interest costs. By 1842, total tax revenue was almost twice what it had been in 1835, but this was still far too...
View ArticleInto the Cannibal’s Pot
“Egalitarianism leads to democracy; democracy leads to socialism; socialism leads to economic destruction; and democratic socialism in multicultural societies leads to death and democide. This, in...
View ArticleBook: The Son Also Rises
Genetics and social mobility: http://milescorak.com/2014/05/22/social-mobility-fixed-forever-gregory-clarks-the-son-also-rises-is-a-book-of-scholarship-and-of-scholastic-overreach/
View ArticleA Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
http://www.amazon.com/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-History/dp/1594204462 In this book Nicholas Wade advances two simple premises: firstly, that we should stop looking only toward culture as a...
View ArticleMcCarthyism revisited in controversial book
“Even today, there is much that we don’t know–documents that have vanished, ancient records still being censored, deceptions still in circulation. However, there is also a good deal of information...
View ArticleThe NY Review of Books Molotov Cocktail Cover
In the 1960s, the Marxists tried violence as a means of starting the revolution — after evolving capitalism, and intellectual cajoling had failed....
View ArticlePEN/Faulkner gala is a politics-free zone this year
It’s very dangerous for the government to supervise literature (through Universities). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/10/08/penfaulkner-gala-is-a-politics-free-zone-this-year/
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