Entries by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.

Thoughts on Kenosha

November 23, 2021 /19 Comments/in /by

This is being written the day after the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case.  I assume you know the basics of the case.  Over the past year, I paid about as much attention to the case as the average person, no more than that.  It was streaming the trial the past couple of […]

William Pierce (and Me) on Racism

July 11, 2021 /38 Comments/in /by

In 2001, I published a book on the White advocate William Pierce (1933–2002) called The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds.  Given the obsessive concern currently for what is deemed the unimpeachable evil of White racism and the modern-day inquisition against White racists tainted with this sin, I think it would be useful to re-visit […]

Hemingway’s Truth (and Ours): A Consideration of “Across the River and into the Trees” and What It Implies 

July 8, 2021 /7 Comments/in /by

Hemingway circa 1950,  when he wrote Across the River and Into the Trees. My take on Ernest Hemingway is that, first and foremost, he wrote from a journalistic perspective.   That is to say, he sought to tell the truth about what is going on in particular situations and with particular people, whether real or fictional.  […]

If I Had Made the Closing Argument in Defense of Derek Chauvin . . .

May 13, 2021 /38 Comments/in /by

At this writing, in mid-May, 2021, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted by a jury of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd during Floyd’s arrest.  Chauvin hasn’t been sentenced yet.  The first charge carries a maximum of forty years in prison. Chauvin was one of […]