One of the more interesting things about the pulp star Doc Savage, the man of bronze, is that he carried out operations on the brains of criminals in order to correct them. These exercises in popular culture — the 181 pulp novels written by Lester Dent — are thus one of the most basic advocates for eugenics throughout the 1930s and ’40s. (more…)
Month: September 2011
-
1,565 words
I wish I had an arresting “what I was doing when the twin towers were hit” story. But the truth is that I had slept through the whole thing. (more…)
-
September 11, 2011 Kevin Beary
Life Styles: Native & Imposed
For decades now, African American leaders have been calling for a formal United States apology for the American role in the slave trade, with some even demanding reparations. Indian tribes proclaim their tax-exempt status as something they are owed for a legacy of persecution by the United States. (more…)
-
I learned of 9/11 from the Internet. I’d gotten online later than usual that morning, and had not had television on. Immediately I was hit with headlines, news stories, and photos of the first tower of the World Trade Center in flames. (more…)
-
2018 qualifications: While I still stand by the general points made in this essay, both the world and me personally are very different from what they were in 2011. First, I am less certain about 9/11 not being an “inside job” than I was then. (more…)
-
I recall September 11, 2001 as clearly as the proverbial “where were you when Kennedy was shot?” Never have I had such a feeling that justice was being dealt to a bully of world-straddling proportions. (more…)
-
1,163 words
Author’s Note:
I wrote the following column on September 15, 2001 for the Emory student newspaper The Emory Wheel. It turned out to be my last column. It was rejected without explanation. School administrators also shut down an online discussion board on which the events of 9/11 were being discussed, saying the board was too “divisive” for the community. (more…)
-
From:
Pentti Linkola
Can Life Prevail? A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Trans. Eetu Rautio and Olli S.
London: Arktos, 2009On September 11, hijacked passenger planes destroyed some of the tall buildings of the World Trade Center in New York and a corner of the main military headquarters in Washington. (more…)
-
The tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is approaching. Frankly, I plan to ignore the official commemorations and mainstream commentary. I felt the horror, mourned the victims, and pitied their loved ones in healthy measure, thank you very much. But that was almost ten years ago.
I want to look back at 9/11 coldly now. (more…)
-
On September 11, 2001, I was only a couple months out of high school, a couple months into my first marriage, and a couple months into my job at Radio Shack. My co-worker and I had our dozens of display televisions turned on, each one set to a different channel. I was a thousand miles away, but I felt the experience in my own chaotic and panoramic way. I was a thousand miles away, but experienced as much fear and anger as if it had happened to my hometown. (more…)
-
9/11 was a sanity test for America, and the test was failed spectacularly. The absolute minimum rational American response to 9/11 would have been to: (a) ban all further Muslim immigration; (b) impose draconian racial profiling at airports and elsewhere; (more…)
-
In the last decade, and especially the last few years, parties called “far-right” by the mainstream media and “national populist” by their members, have enjoyed considerable electoral successes.
This has occurred primarily in France, Scandinavia, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. No such breakthroughs have been seen in Britain, Germany, or Spain. (more…)
-
Get Ready To Buy The Light Bulbs That The Government Commands You To
I wasn’t intending to write an article on this subject because it seemed to me that everything that could be said about the topic had already been covered. (more…)