Go to Part 1. The early part of the twentieth century was the high-water mark of Darwinism in the social sciences. It was common at that time to think that there were important differences between the races in both intelligence and moral qualities. Not only did races differ, they were in competition with each other […]
This is about a pernicious strand of European thinking that is an important component of the crisis we face today—the Puritan strand of American thought which dominated America until the 1960s counter-cultural revolution. The synopsis is that in the nineteenth century, Puritan-descended intellectuals engaged in utopian, idealistic fantasies, often with moralistic overtones. Then after the […]
Ron Unz casts strong suspicion on LBJ and the Mossad as responsible for JFK assassination. “By all accounts, Johnson was an individual of towering personal ego, and … I was struck by the extent of his astonishing subservience to the Jewish state. …https://t.co/boH5K8bW2Y — Kevin MacDonald (@TOOEdit) June 25, 2018 Seymour Hersh’s 1991 The Samson […]
It’s well known that social psychologists are overwhelmingly liberal in their politics—exactly three people in a crowd of 1000 at a psychology conference raised their hand when Jonathan Haidt asked how many identified as politically conservative. In fact, social psychology is a good example of Haidt’s concept of “tribal moral communities” that infest our political […]
I thought I would start writing blog posts with excerpts from articles I find interesting, sometimes with brief comments. “Meanwhile, 10 miles from the White House…” Now that Trump has solved Northeast Asia’s problems, maybe he can get to a problem in our country — in fact, within 10 miles of the White House. For […]
Edward Dutton, who is affiliated with Richard Lynn’s Ulster Institute for Social Research, has written an article supporting the main contention of my book, The Culture of Critique in an academic journal, Evolutionary Psychological Science: “MacDonald’s model is the more plausible hypothesis due to evidence that people tend to act in their ethnic group interest and that group selectedness among […]
