Entries by Edmund Connelly, Ph. D.

Farewell, My Dear WASP

“Here’s a WASP joke. Question: Why do WASPs not engage in more orgies? Answer: Too many thank-you notes to write.” Thus began a NYTime’s book review last fall about the new book Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad Friend. I read the review and highlighted a phenomenon […]

Goyland: Where the Wild Things Are

“Living so long in exile and so often in danger, we have cultivated a defensive and apologetic account, a censored story, of Jewish religion and culture.” Michael Walzer, quoted in Kevin MacDonald. Separation and Its Discontents, p. 217 The $100 million-dollar film Where the Wild Things Are was released last October. Older readers might remember […]

Channeling Steve Sailer

When I first started writing my Steve Sailer column two weeks ago, I initially titled it “Channeling Steve Sailer.” Now I wish I had left it at that because his Sunday VDARE piece that appeared just after my essay really did seem like we were operating on the same wavelength. His essay was indeed perfectly […]