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Category Archives: Nationalism
Was Gandhi A White Supremacist?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Mahatma Gandhi was arguably a white supremacist. Gandhi’s rise to fame was in South Africa fighting for rights for wealthy Indians. He firmly believed, “that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating … Continue reading
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Marty Kaplan: The idiocy of the Iowa caucuses
Marty Kaplan writes: “We’re suckers for the patriotic mythology and gauzy imagery of town halls and high school gyms where candidates get grilled and caucus-goers speak up and get counted. But the power of Iowa and New Hampshire isn’t a … Continue reading
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What Drove Germany To Two World Wars?
There is nothing that is human that is foreign to me. There is nothing Hitler did that is not inside of everybody. For instance, most people wish that their enemies would simply disappear. Israelis wish that Palestinians would simply disappear, … Continue reading
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What Was Samuel Francis’s Pen Name For Hardcore Race Articles?
According to The Week: “Francis eventually turned into a something resembling an all-out white nationalist, penning his most racist material under a pen name.” Ellison Lodge tweets at me: 1. I asked his three closest “white nationalist” allies, he did … Continue reading
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Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?
Yes. Different groups have different interests and they will inevitably compete with each for scarce resources such as land and water and power. Professor Jerry Z. Muller responds to his critics in Foreign Affairs magazine in the July/August 2008 edition: … Continue reading
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Us & Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism
By Jerry Z. Muller for Foreign Affairs, March 2008: PROJECTING THEIR own experience onto the rest of the world, Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. After all, in the United States people of varying ethnic origins … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Immigration, Israel, Jerry Z. Muller, Jews, Nationalism
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A Modest Birth Control Proposal
I think it is a great idea to give all girls Norplant starting about age 11 and it should remain mandatory for any citizens until they are given permission to go off it. Getting pregnant is a privilege and only … Continue reading
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The Alienation Blues
Comments to Steve Sailer: * But some people can’t get ’nuff of those Alienation Blues. Take the snooty Bengali-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri. She was born in the UK but left for the States at the age of two where her … Continue reading
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The Globo-Homo Elite
From the Chateau: The Freelance COTW winner is “Anon” (of course) from S. Sailer, ridiculing the “nation of immigrants” platitude and describing the emerging entity I like to call the “Globo-Homo Elite”: The problem. If the premise is ‘America is … Continue reading
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The Rise Of Populist Parties
John O’Sullivan writes: If you think this argument is vaguely familiar, that’s because throughout the 1990s and early “Noughties” I was one of a handful of conservative writers who were “banging on” in National Review’s pages about the danger to … Continue reading
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