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Who “defeated communism?”
With Margaret Thatcher’s death in the news, one hears a fair bit about how she helped defeat communism. The idea that Thatcher and Reagan and the Pope defeated communism is buncombe. I have no wish to...
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- Fred Reed suggests limiting the vote to people over 30, who can pass a literacy test (“The objection will be raised that to require literacy will be to disenfranchise various minorities. The solution...
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Full (muslim) retard, or Rubio 2016
“Will most people reallocate their time and energy away from reading the news and toward studying Bayes’ Theorem?” You see, if they did, they wouldn’t be afraid of Muslim terrorists, because we all...
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- If you ain’t in the reaction, you’re square: The white American middle classes of today may be the most conformist population that ever lived, banking and turning in unison, old and young together,...
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How to obscure reality with statistics
A disproportionate number of converts to the dark enlightenment seem to come from a libertarian background. Art Carden may or may not be a dark enlightenment sleeper agent. It’s getting hard to tell....
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DC Readers
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Quote of the week
Here: We are rapidly coming to a point where a complete change of elected officials, including Congress and the White House, can mean little change in policy. You are governed more and more by people...
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- I’m sure you’ve seen Scharlach’s diagram of the dark enlightenment, but he’s written some good stuff recently as well: The Cathedral does not preach evolution; the Cathedral doesn’t believe in...
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Confused
So is there a make-work bias or not? As has been said elsewhere: Solution D is the obvious approach and has been practiced by regimes around the world since Cheops was a little boy: to keep the...
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Review of “Lincoln, The Man” by Edgar Lee Masters
“The political history of America has been written for the most part by those who were unfriendly to the theory of a confederated republic, or who did not understand it. It has been written by devotees...
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- Lots of good stuff on the dark enlightenment. - Also, don’t miss a new blogger. - And a side discussion of the inherent left-ness of Christianity. - educationrealist shares some thoughts on being in...
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Assimilation, PC, and the left singularity
There is no non-magical progressive theory for how “assimilation” works. Progressivism is, in fact, incompatible with assimilation – in any logical sense. The progressive fervor for immigration from...
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- Bruce Charlton: ‘Modern Life’ as it is portrayed in the mass media – in innumerable novels, movies, TV shows and commentaries – is depicted as essentially a matter of dating and careers. . . . As a...
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- Was General Patton assassinated? - Sailer epically dominates a comment thread. If you get Sailer, the thread is really funny. - Are mainstream conservatives beginning to understand how early 20th...
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Dark arguments on immigration
The interwebz is full of people who will tell you why you should welcome immigrants. For example, the girl that was the editor of my high newspaper (and who apparently hasn’t aged) apparently hacked...
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- A collision between the orthosphere and secular reaction. And a post on the reactionary consensus regarding hierarchy. - The anti-Flynn effect. - The 512th time is the charm. - Tolkein on progressivism
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Half-assed wishful thinking
Don Boudreaux and Bryan Caplan want you to know that their criteria for the circumstances in which their ideological opponents should forfeit employment are slightly narrower than those of the...
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The IRS story
Everyone is missing the point of this story. From the AP: “I just don’t buy that this was a couple of rogue IRS employees,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. “After all, groups with `progressive’ in...
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Randoms
- Finally, some reasonable thoughts on the IRS case. This is also almost certainly true. Here’s yet another example. - I’m tired of writing about immigration, but if you want more: see hbdchick’s...
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