Lothrop Stoddard in 1926.
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Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was born on this day in 1883. Stoddard was a historian, political theorist, and white advocate. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Stoddard attended Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude in 1905. He then studied law at Boston University. Stoddard received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1914. Stoddard was the author of eighteen books, the best known of which is The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy (1920), which proved prophetic. As a white preservationist, Stoddard campaigned for immigration reform, anti-miscegenation laws, and eugenics. Along with Margaret Sanger, Stoddard was a founding member of Planned Parenthood. He was also a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Stoddard’s work was consigned to oblivion after the Second World War, but subsequent history proved him right.
To learn more about Stoddard’s life and work, please see the following works on Counter-Currents:
- Beau Albrecht, “Lothrop Stoddard’s Into the Darkness,” Part 1, Part 2.
- Jonathan Bowden, “The E Word: Eugenics and Environmentalism, Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard.”
- T. H. Corday, “The Legacy of Lothrop Stoddard.”
- Margot Metroland, “In Praise of Healthy Vice.”
- Margot Metroland, “Lothrop Stoddard in Geopolitics.”
- Morris van de Camp, “Lothrop Stoddard: A Prophet We Should Study.”
Also see articles tagged Lothrop Stoddard.
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I would strongly recommend “Into the Darkness”, Stoddard’s account of travels through Germany in 1939, after the start of the war but while America was still neutral. He managed to interview Himmler and Ley among others treating them very fairly but pressing for straight answers and not accepting politicians’ evasion at face value.
It’s a very balanced and insightful account, to my mind the best explanation of what German society was really like. It’s not surprising that it has been memory-holed by the regime.
When Madison Grant’s “Conquest of a Continent” was published, the then director of B’nai B’rith wrote to Jewish periodicals requesting that they not write about nor discuss Grant’s new book because it extolled the Nordic aspect of America’s character, and that went against the Jewish assertion that America was a “melting pot.” They approached the free marketplace of ideas by attempting to sabotage the sales of a book that threatened the ideas and notions that they wanted to promote.
Although Stoddard wrote many books — and no doubt those books were in many public libraries at the time — I often wonder how they disappeared over the years. Books that offend powerful interests somehow go missing.
In Instauration, I saw a couple mentions of library purges, at least one of which involved Stoddard’s books.
There is a free copy of Into The Darkness on Unz.com. Stoddard spoke fluent German and met with Goebbels and even Hitler.
I also lived in Brookline, MA for a while back in the late 90s. Back then, and now, it was a majority Jewish town (albeit quite nice to live in, mainly due to it being very affluent).
Dear Greg Johnson,
Thank you for bringing back Dr. Theodore Lothrop Stoddard. He is one of the intellectual racial nationalists that should be remembered. Many of his books should be required reading as well.
There are other historians, anthropologists, psychologists and biologists that should be added to the birthday list. Here are my recommendations: John Randal Baker, Francis Galton, Francis Crick, Julian Huxley, Ernst Haeckel, Edward Thorndike, Raymond B. Cattell and Arthur R. Jensen
Thank you for all the hard work. I visit your webzine everyday.
-Eric
Don’t forget to add Georges Vacher de Lapouge and Arthur de Gobineau to that list.
I love Stoddard’s works. I highly recommend checking the archive that UNZ has on him. There are dozens of articles about the issues (mainly geopolitical ones) of his time.
Thanks Counter Currents for remembering this guy.
Also if anyone knows where to find the pdf of his newer books, Luck: Your silent Partner, Master of Manhattan, Lonely America, etc. this would be very nice.
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