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- On Congress: Congress is dominated by intellectual lightweights who are chiefly consumed by electioneering and largely irrelevant in a body where a handful of members and many more staff do the...
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- Ron Unz has another very good article up on race, crime and immigration. There’s really no reason not to read the whole thing. He covers race and crime: Indeed, the race/crime correlation so...
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Review of “Shift Omnibus Edition” by Hugh Howey
I couldn’t resist the sequel, especially since the final book is coming out next month. Actually these books are a prequel to the first set of books. The first set of books were post-apocalyptic. The...
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Randoms
- Derb has fun with some terrible commentary. - JayMan on American nations. - Academia and Zimmerman. - Diversity. That’s a fun site, but all the maps start to look a lot like that one after a while. -...
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Review of “This Town” by Mark Leibovich
This book purports to explain how Washington really works. In a sense it does – though only by omission. The book is a chronicle of the most noticeable people in DC – the most “important” politicians,...
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Randoms
- John Gray on Machiavelli: A world in which little or nothing of importance is left to the contingencies of politics is the implicit ideal of the age. The trouble is that politics can’t be swept to...
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Epic randoms
(Pardon the absence, here’s a huge post to make up for it) - So are all the countries that are white, racist? Is that how this works? - Anarcho-Papist: In the beginning there was Game, and men saw that...
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Ranking crimes and racism
While I was gone, a video surfaced of an NFL player saying the N word. This dumb statement is huge news because the player is white, the word ended with an -er, and sportswriters are the most...
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Propaganda
Over the last couple of weeks, there have been a couple stories that give me the feeling of an itch that I can’t scratch. The first is the continuing Edward Snowden saga and the second is the reporting...
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Randoms
- Reactionary youth. (So does being 32 make me an elder?) - Here: You do not have a relationship to American society, any more than the co-dependent has a relationship to an addict. Once you have that...
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Conquest’s second law
Gavin McInnes writes good stuff for Taki Magazine. He also seems like a pretty interesting guy. I watched the Vice series on HBO a couple weeks ago. I’ve seen and enjoyed some Vice videos before, but...
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The oldest civilization
We’re seeing lots of things in Egypt these days, but one of them is the destruction of the last remaining Coptic communities. The Copts are the original Egyptians (one could argue they’re currently...
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Bigot or liar, pick one
“A statement of simple fact is not bigotry.” - Richard Dawkins Alas, on this point Dawkins is wrong. Increasingly, lots of statements of fact are bigotry. IQ varies by race. This is an obvious fact and...
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Randoms
- “Living law” (HT). It’s nice of National Review to notice this 80 years after it started. - I’m filing this one away. - Heartiste on randomness. - Gromar: Don’t interfere. Don’t ‘increase’ or...
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I was wrong
I generally supported – if half-heartedly – letting two gay dudes have some sort of legal relationship if they wanted one. My ideological background is libertarian. My nature is to live and let live....
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Review of “What Do Women Want?” by Daniel Bergner
There are facts that were once known, sometimes generally known, that are now known to but a few. - Greg Cochran We embraced science that soothed us, the science we wanted to hear. The presumption that...
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No true Scotsman
At The Orthosphere, there’s a post purporting to argue that the Cathedral was not constructed by Christians. Presumably the title was changed by someone other than the author of the text of the post,...
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Randoms
- The dark enlightenment’s best commenter is now blogging. His first post is here. (Follow-up here). - Scharlach: “There will always be sovereignty. There will always be someone to serve, someone or...
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Review of “Nekkid in Austin” by Fred Reed
Fred Reed is an interesting guy. He doesn’t fit in any obvious ideological box, but he may be on the cusp of going viral if hillbilly intellectualism is on the rise. This book is a collection of his...
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Proof that libertarianism is racist
Many of us in the Dark Enlightenment are recovering libertarians. Radish has a great post on libertarianism’s race problem. There’s one aspect of this topic that deserves a bit of extra analysis. It’s...
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