Category Archives: Cultural Marxism

Racial Forensics in an Age of Race Denial

Written by Austen Layard on January 31, 2014 — 2 Comments

What happens when a forensic anthropologist is asked to identify the race of skeletal remains in a politically-charged climate where “race is a social construct”?  A classic case of doublethink: simultaneously accepting two contradictory beliefs as correct.  An article titled Forensic Identification of “Race” published in the journal Current Anthropology states: The identification of the […]

Anthropology’s Obsession with African Origins

Written by Austen Layard on January 30, 2014 — 2 Comments

When did humans first become human?  The answer is far from simple, because the question assumes that sometime in the past, humans achieved modernity and were locked within an evolutionary loophole where natural selection no longer applies.  Despite the absurdity of this scenario, and in stark contrast to empirical data, it is widely believed that […]

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