Around the turn of the century, I wrote a book about white advocate William Pierce (1933–2002)—The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds (1stBooks Library, 2001). One of the things that stuck with me about that experience is Pierce’s consuming interest in World War II. I put it this way in the book: Pierce is engrossed […]
Making Sense of The Alt-Right George Hawley New York: Columbia University Press, 2017, 218 pp. With any book, it helps to take into account who wrote it and who published it. George Hawley is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. Assistant professor is the lowest professor rank. Hawley’s a young […]
Like everyone—in the world, really—I was riveted by the events in Charlottesville. What came up for me: My first reaction was elation and gratitude. How about this! White people—organized, and doing it publicly—standing up for their heritage and race, standing up for people like me, standing up for me. When has this ever happened before? […]
The August, 2017 issue of Vanity Fair magazine has the naked and very pregnant tennis star Serena Williams on the cover. When I saw it, a thought flashed to my mind: “Ingrid Bergman wasn’t naked on the cover of Life in Dad’s shop.” I’ll explain. My dad was a barber in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. […]
In mid-August of 2016, I was included in a group of five people sitting around a table chatting at the University of Vermont, which is in the city of Burlington, Vermont’s largest, 42,000 people. Four of us were a current or retired faculty member at the university and the other was a new dean who […]
There is an aggressive, unreasonable, even neurotic, quality in the outlook and behavior of blacks toward whites currently that wasn’t present — at least not nearly to this extent — in prior decades. The term that captures this quality or thrust for me: it is abusive of white people. I think it may be helpful to […]
