Entries by Kevin MacDonald

Gilad Atzmon Replies

Gilad Atzmon has responded to my review of his The Wandering Who? His comments say a lot about who he is and how he comes to his conclusions. First, he titles his comment “Supremacists on ‘The Wandering Who’“, the word ‘supremacist’  being the term of art used by by anti-White organizations like the SPLC and […]

A Dissident Meditation on Jewish Identity: A Review of Gilad Atzmon’s “The Wandering Who?”

Gilad Atzmon, The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics (Winchester, UK and Washington, DC: Zer0 Books, 2011, 202 pp.) Gilad Atzmon is one of those rarest of all birds—the sort of person who would be called a “self-hating Jew” by Jewish activists. Except that he doesn’t really hate himself and really doesn’t have […]

Extreme Sports as a Context of Implicit Whiteness

A reader sent along this video of Jeb Corliss, an extreme athlete, flying through the Alps. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k Here’s extreme surfer Laird Hamilton surfing waves so big that he has to be towed into the path of the wave. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQQtxb8wv0&feature=related Corliss and Hamilton are White, and being White seems to be part of a pattern for extreme […]

Jews at US Colleges and Universities

Reform Judaism has posted a chart listing the top 60 colleges and universities attended by Jews. See here. Six of the 8 Ivy League universities are included, with Jewish enrollments of around 25% of the total undergraduates. The topic of Jewish overrepresentation at elite universities has been discussed several times at TOO. See, e.g.,  Edmund […]

What’s Up with Mel Gibson?

Mel Gibson has announced that he will be involved in a movie about the revolt led by Judah Maccabee against the Greeks in 160 BC—the basis for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Patrick Goldstein in the LATimes (“Mel’s miracle: doing right by Maccabee” 9/10/11; apparently not available online) says that “Gibson is back in good […]