Entries by Kevin MacDonald
TrumpHate rises to new heights. Will it work?
The Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki has resulted in the greatest outpouring of TrumpHate to date. Truly stunning. The #NeverTrumpers (basically neocons) and the liberal/left have finally found the issue they think they can win on. Sure, the image of children being taken from their parents was effective with the people who already hated Trump. But […]
Lothrop Stoddard’s “The French Revolution in San Domingo,” Part 2
Go to Part 1. There were complex combinations of oppositions according to race and class. On one hand, poor Whites and wealthy Whites saw a common interest in opposing the mulattos, some of whom were wealthy. From the standpoint of the poor Whites, the wealth of his perceived racial inferiors was particularly galling. In 1789, […]
Lothrop Stoddard’s “The French Revolution in San Domingo,” Part 1
This is a foreword that I wrote for Lothrop Stoddard’s The French Revolution in San Domingo, published in 2011. * * * Lothrop Stoddard on the French Colonists in San Domingo Historian Frank Moya Pons, writing in The Cambridge History of Latin America, describes Lothrop Stoddard’s The French Revolution in San Domingo as “a book now out […]
Thinking about Civil War II
Lately a lot of people—31% in a recent poll—have been thinking the previously unthinkable — a civil war. Specifically, they agreed that “it’s likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years.” Moreover: Women and those under 40 are more worried about a possible civil war than […]
The TOQ Summer issue is up. Subscribers Needed!
The Summer issue of TOQ is available for subscribers, with the print version to be mailed out soon. It’s a great issue with articles on a wide range of topics vital to understanding Western culture, Western history, and the struggles we face. I strongly encourage people to subscribe. As is well known, the establishment is attacking us […]
The Puritan Intellectual Tradition in America, Part 3: Was the 1924 Immigration Law Too Little, Too Late?
Go to Part 1 Go to Part 2 Concluding Thoughts on the Puritan Intellectual Tradition in America An interesting feature of Puritanism is the tendency to pursue utopian causes framed as moral issues—their susceptibility to utopian appeals to a ‘higher law’ and the belief that the principal purpose of government is moral. New England was […]
