Human biodiversity is justified through sociological analysis, historical and anthropological evidence, hints within our own biology, and the Traditional understanding of this subject. In short, it’s an affirmation that the races are indeed different. The races have strengths, weaknesses, different developmental histories, and most importantly, unique metaphysical characteristics that are held in common by the members of that race and influence the kind of society they will build. This has its practical political implications in the adage “people are different and thrive in different systems.” For instance, the failure of blacks in America to achieve any kind of large-scale success is not […]

Plato gets the credit for inventing the concept of “noble lie,” a false tale circulated to make a society more civic-minded and justify social stratifications (Republic III 414c-415c). Of all Plato’s ideas, this one may be the one received most unfavorably. No one likes being told that they must be deceived into being good, and egalitarian impulses, especially in the present age, revolt against the idea of sanctifying social classes. As is so often the case, Plato is misunderstood. He was not truly inventing anything but rather critiquing pre-existing Greek religious ideas. Plato presents the “noble lie” in three sections. […]

The top-down imposition of gay marriage is now in the rearview mirror for America’s leftward drift. Will it grant legitimacy to such unions? No. Legitimacy comes from widespread acceptance, not from imposition. Negative referendums, brow-beating by the media and volunteer thought police and five Supreme Court justices are not the sign of widespread acceptance. William Safire was right over a decade ago when he wrote that this gay marriage push was all over one word “marriage” and the legitimacy and approval that it granted. Those shocked at how fast this all happened may point to gay propaganda, but it is not just […]

Not terribly long ago I was at a libertarian gathering, and I saw a young man proudly wearing a huge League of the South pin. A nice guy, so later I did some Googling and found a real winner of a photo: And indeed, Senator Graham’s stance on immigration is well worth protesting, being about on par with that Jeb Bush – their positions on war are equally confusable too, and given how dysgenic contemporary conflict is, I dare say you could call it part of the replacement process. However, a Republican politician is not worth writing about – but a […]

Amor omnia vincit: Love conquers all. That seems to be the slogan these days. Or, it would be if people still studied Latin. The Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges has spawned riots of color all across the country. People are raising rainbow flags here, there, and everywhere. At the same time, the Confederate battle flag is being lowered and removed from all corners of respectable society. This now famous graphic illustrates the noble triumph of Love over Hate. Wait a minute. “Triumph of Love over Hate”? Aren’t love and hate emotions that everyone feels at one point or […]

When reading Sabrina Erdely’s rationale behind her UVA story, one might be struck by how often she said she hunted for the right school, the right situation, and the right victim. This was when she was being lauded by the media for her reporting on fictional rapes on broken glass. In reality, Erdely was looking for the perfect geographic setting and perfect villain to push The Narrative. Erdely did not have to search hard or look far to find rape, a culture that protects criminals, and systemic protection for criminals from petty theft to rape. This storm of factors is found […]

Ideologues enjoy using the nebulous concept of ‘capitalism’ either as a punching bag or as something to laud, but most prefer to stay away from the method of calculation that underlies it, giving it its own logic as to why it functions. That system is the international accounting system — which is not something that is evenly distributed throughout the economy. Accounting is a way of rationalizing production using tokens of value combined with scrupulous record-keeping. It has less to do with enormous factories and more to do with the mathematically rationalized operations of those factories. Much of the political agitation […]

At the outset of this review of Mad Max: Fury Road, let me say that it’s an excellent movie. If for some reason you are haven’t seen it, stop reading this instant and go watch it. Not only will you have a thoroughly enjoyable viewing experience, you’ll avoid all the spoilers that follow here. I’ll wait. Now you’ve seen the movie. Aside from exulting in the experience, you’re probably wondering: just what was supposed to be feminist about that film? I can’t answer that question, but I do know that it poses very serious problems for those of us of the […]

The Rachel Dolezal news media cycle was fantastic to watch. It was beautiful to see progressives struggling to reconcile the problem of glorifying Bruce Jenner’s transition from man to woman, while somehow not glorifying Dolezal’s transracial attempt. There are problems. The NY Times op-ed (by a woman), which pushes back against Jenner’s move, reveals the torture the left is going through as they say “gender/race is biological but doesn’t have to be but hey why are you claiming to be part of my group and take on my struggle and claim my oppression.” The coalition of victims is defensive about their identities […]

One of the critiques I have seen in the past few months comes from the concerned conservative or libertarian observer and goes something like this: “Reactionaries are no different from liberals, because they support social engineering. They want to forcibly change how people think, while conservatives just want people to be free from big government.” Well, the first thing to be said here is that the conservative is essentially jacking a libertarian argument for his own uses. Conservatism, as I have pointed out previously, is not the same thing as libertarianism and instead can be likened to liberalism’s shadow, preserving its […]