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Category Archives: WASPs
The Rage of the Disinherited Insider: The Angry WASP Writer
The angry WASP writer is a literary type that the decline of the Protestant establishment produced over the past three decades. The form rests on a reversal. The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite once held the command heights of American institutions … Continue reading
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The Custodial Imagination
America has enjoyed real gains and suffered real losses as the result of opening up its English departments to non-WASPs. The gains are easy to talk about, the losses not so much. Who has had the courage to note the … Continue reading
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Protestants vs Catholics
I grew up a WASP and we held stereotypes that Catholic cities and countries were corrupt, superstitious and backward. What are Catholic stereotypes about Protestant countries? ChatGPT says: Catholic stereotypes about Protestant countries tend to invert the old WASP tropes. … Continue reading
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The Half Life Of Limerence
In my experience, the half-life of an erotic relationship is six weeks. ChatGPT says: Six weeks tracks with what relationship psychologists often describe as the “limerence phase” — when novelty, infatuation, and erotic charge are at their peak before the … Continue reading
The Rescue (2021)
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The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: the Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States
Here are some highlights from this 2004 book by Eric Kaufman: * Even as late as the 1960s, 90 percent of white Protestants, Catholics, and Jews married members of their own faith. * I single out cultural and ideological changes … Continue reading
WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy
Here are some highlights from this 2021 book: * You find comparatively few murderers among WASPs. * WASPs are creatures of guilt and self-questioning, more likely to kill themselves than kill others. Suicide blighted whole families. There were the Sturgises, … Continue reading
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When The Anglo Began To Self-Hate (8-24-21)
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WSJ: ‘The publisher pushed hard for admitting Jewish refugees and took two into her own home’
From the WSJ: But it wasn’t just party affiliation that made Alicia such a maverick in her family. She spurned its militant isolationism, becoming an early advocate of aiding beleaguered Britain as it faced up to Hitler alone. She even … Continue reading
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Why Are Some Countries Less Corrupt Than Others? And Why Are They Anglo?
Harvard ethics blog: Independent of the econometric methodology applied, we consistently find: Immigration from corruption-ridden countries boosts corruption in the destination country. Hence, the international legislators’ fear (as expressed in recent agreements by the G20 group) that immigration may cause … Continue reading
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