A rather long critical review of Joseph Henrich’s recent The WEIRDest People in the World, based on my book Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. Understanding Western Uniqueness: A Comment on Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Mankind Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2021): 723–766. Abstract […]
Jewish history is replete with examples of deception, including the Old Testament: The Biblical stories of sojourning by the patriarchs among foreigners are very prominently featured in Genesis. Typically there is an emphasis on deception and exploitation of the host population, after which the Jews leave a despoiled host population, having increased their own wealth […]
AXIOS article by Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei: Republicans, long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on working class white, Hispanic and Black voters, top GOP officials tell Axios. Why it matters: This is a substantial shift, born of necessity and the post-Trump reality. It would push Republicans further away from the […]
Watching the Fox News channel on weekends I have been blown away by this ad soliciting donations for “thousands” of “Jewish Holocaust Survivors” who are “in dire need.” Forgive me if I think this is a scam. If the pathetic people like those depicted are really in such dire need, surely they could be airlifted […]
From the German Magazine UN Unabhängige Nachrichten (Independent News) 1/2021) Translated by The Hun. After 70 years of free democratic governments and state political education work, is democracy so weak, so sick, that its continued existence must be strengthened with billions of taxpayers’ money? For a long time, more than 100 million euros of taxpayers’ […]
