It’s refreshing to see John Derbyshire’s comment on his experience at National Review with conservatives dealing with immigration policy. Words have power—magic—and sometimes they have so much of it that we can no longer discuss rationally the things they refer to. That has been the case with National Question issues for as long as I have been […]
A correspondent just notified me of a blog post from 2010 on St. John Chrysostom by Roger Pearse, a scholar of Christianity in the ancient world (“Some remarks about John Chrysostom’s homilies against the Jews“). Pearse quotes from a 1935 summary of Chrysostom’s writings whose author, A. L. Williams, notes that Chrysostom was motivated by the […]
From the Israeli apartheid page on Facebook, via Philip Weiss of Mondoweiss: A bus in Jerusalem has this caption in large lettering: Israel’s bus company Egged has accepted this ad in Jerusalem: “Statement of the kingdom. From the teachings=instructions of the [Lubavitcher] rabbi The Gentile does not want anything. He waits to be told what the […]
Extreme sports is a context for implicit Whiteness: Extreme athletes exist in an implicitly White world where they associate only with other White men—“a racially and gender exclusive place” where White men “can un-apologetically perform an ideal masculinity which they cover by taking death-defying risks, enduring the pain of participation and displaying an unwavering confidence […]
From Greg Johnson’s translation of Alain de Benoist’s comment on the Charlie Hebdo affair: Here we are dealing with attacks planned in France by individuals radicalized more or less independently. They went gradually from delinquency to jihadism, but they are usually failures at it. They have great composure, know how to use weapons, and are completely indifferent to the lives of […]
