The doctrine of multiculturalism is increasingly facing pressure from populist protest movements across Europe. PEGIDA in Germany and the groups associated with the National Front in France — both buttressed by popular books decrying the ideology (“Germany Abolishes Itself” and “The French Suicide”) — are finding support not just from the lower classes who are most directly threatened by mass immigration, but by the middle classes as well. In the United Kingdom, UKIP plays this political role, but with a stronger tinge of being against the European Union. In Europe, the concerns are mostly about the displacement of native European culture by foreign […]

When proposing a challenging idea, most reasonable people will tell you that it’s almost certainly going to be impossible. Based on their entirely reasonable estimates, they will be correct. Every big idea has to start somewhere, as a small idea, usually only held by one person or a small group. It’s easy to become discouraged by the natural indifference and skepticism of other people to new notions, because their natural indifference is just the wall that ideas need to be compelling enough to be able to hop over. That wall of distrust protects people from the swirling mass of terrible ideas […]

Cultivating political hatred requires a concerted, calculated effort, expended over an extended period of time. When executed properly, the target of the hate campaign comes to be held up as the perpetrator of all the great crimes of history, all the recent crimes which have happened nearby, all of the recent political reversals of the state, and even the petty personal hurts felt by the ordinary people. When the state is weak, and the people come to suffer injustice, it’s natural for hatreds to develop among the people. When the laws are muddled, inconsistent, and unjust, injustice goes unpunished, unanswered, […]

It’s supposed to be good sense among the better classes that large families are something only for religious zealots who hold backwards views about women still have. In the eyes of the new class, having many children is a sign of backwards beliefs. It is also a crimp on the lifestyle that the better sort of person is supposed to enjoy. How can both spouses ‘lean in’ at the office when there are six or more children to take care of? Sending just one child to Harvard costs a lot of money out of pocket. How can anyone afford to […]

It’s common sense that white men are the greatest source of evil in the world today. The only way to expunge this evil is to join in the chorus proclaiming the race-guilt of the white man for the evils of slavery, capitalism, science, and technology. To the extent that white men enjoy a high station in this world is the extent to which the world itself must be brought to justice. Any house you see that has a proud white man deserves to be struck down. Whether it’s a home or a corporate office doesn’t matter. If it is headed by […]

Everyone knows someone who is convinced that a society-wide catastrophe would be the first necessary step to a general improvement in the political situation, at least in their opinion. Such a belief makes some intuitive sense on the individual level — it is said that addicts need to hit ‘rock bottom’ before they reform themselves. What is unfortunately more common, on the historical level, is that nations, countries, and societies tend to make the same mistakes repetitively, until they are annihilated by some combination of competitors, natural catastrophes, and other competitors. On the biological level, we are aware of the […]

For roughly the last century and a half, the major Western states have been attempting to supplant the family with its own systems of obligation and provision. This has a certain logic to it, because while monarchical systems, empires, and even despotic states rest on the leadership of a solitary father-figure, bureaucratic nation-states are run by administrators and enforcers who execute the law. The laws are the arbiter of who gets what and when, rather than the independent judgment of any single family head. Whereas in one system, the metaphor is that of government by the father-of-fathers, under a more […]

You’re supposed to feel warm inside when you see a big crowd of people demonstrating for ‘unity’ and ‘tolerance’ carrying candles and signs, speaking soothing words of peace. The images are intended to reassure you, just as the mass of the herd reassures animals like deer, gazelle, kangaroos, sheep, and cows that they are safe from predators. But the herd is as much of a target of predators as it is a form of protection. And humans are not, ultimately, herd animals — we are pack hunters with a sophisticated social structure. The herd is not a form of social […]

The phenomenon of #BlackBrunch, in which black activists pile into fashionable restaurants to ruin the dining experience for the people who live there, is wonderful for a whole number of reasons. At least, if you don’t live in cities like San Francisco, New York, and Oakland. It’s an in-your-face, modern version of blockbusting, a technique used by real estate developers during the early days of Civil Rights to ethnically cleanse white people from American cities while earning big commissions for doing it. Whereas in the 1960s, real estate agents had to hire black people at day rates to wander around neighborhoods […]