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Category Archives: Race
Is The Subtext Of This Article Race?
Liberals often accuse conservatives of dog whistling for race when they talk about law and order, states rights, lower taxes and welfare payments, Obamacare and the like. I have a lot of sympathy for this liberal argument. Arguing on the … Continue reading
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I’ve Never Heard Of A Jewish/Black/Latino/Asian Supremacist
The shooter in Kansas City yesterday, Frazier Glen Miller, is often called a “white supremacist.” I never hear that “supremacist” term applied to rabid nationalists of other groups, only to whites. I suspect most people view their own group as … Continue reading
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Feel Your Feelings!
LCSW Kathy Henry says: Do you really feel your feelings? Do you allow yourself to feel the depths of your emotions? My guess is, probably not. There is a lot at stake!! If you allow yourself to be open and … Continue reading
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The Thru-Line From National Review To Revilo Oliver To William Pierce
Robert S. Griffin writes in his biography of William Pierce: Revilo Oliver was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society and wrote a number of pieces for William Buckley’s magazine National Review in its early years. Oliver … Continue reading
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The Conservative/Neo-Conservative Divide On Race
Through the 1960s, the flagship Conservative magazine National Review took racial differences for granted and fought on the side of white segregation around the world. By contrast, much of the burgeoning neoconservative movement pushed for a racially blind approach. On … Continue reading
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James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation II
I’m reading this new book. I’m interested in how the conservative thinker James J. Kilpatrick, as much as possible, made the case for racial segregation without talking about race. Regnery published Kilpatrick’s first book, The Sovereign States in 1956. From … Continue reading
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James Kalb: Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
Jim Kalb has a website at JimKalb.com. He writes regularly for Crisis magazine. His previous book came out in 2008: The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command. Here’s a transcript of parts … Continue reading
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Who Was The Last American Politician Who Was a Public Intellectual?
I think it was the sociologist and politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who noted that Americans tend to behave more sanely the closer to Canada they live. Newt Gingrich thinks of himself as one but none of his books stand up … Continue reading
Baby Richard
Beginning in April 1995, Dennis Prager devoted every hour of his radio show for six weeks, much to the dismay of his bosses and many of his listeners, to the Baby Richard controversy. Why this obsession? Because the story exemplified … Continue reading
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White Oppression
Nicholas Kristof wrote from Zimbabwe for the New York Times Mar. 23, 2005: The hungry children and the families dying of AIDS here are gut-wrenching, but somehow what I find even more depressing is this: Many, many ordinary black Zimbabweans … Continue reading