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Pitbulls make up about 13% of the dog population, but they are responsible for more than than 60% of fatal dog attacks. So pitbulls are the most dangerous dogs. But before you can recommend any policies for dealing with this menace, you will hear the inevitable objection, “But not all pitbulls are like that. (more…)
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One of Tom Wolfe’s most celebrated books, A Man In Full, concerns the nature of masculinity. Of course, that remarkably brief take is rather like saying that Crime and Punishment is about the practical limits of utilitarianism. There’s quite a lot going on in it, which is to be expected since it’s a little longer than Dostoyevsky’s classic. Therefore, I won’t get too far into my usual blow-by-blow. I’ll proceed after the premise with a thematic analysis of this classic from 1998. (more…)
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Marcel Gauchet
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
Princeton University Press, 2024
This 191-page study of Robespierre’s revolutionary career is not a biography in the usual sense. Such works have already patiently collected everything that can be known about the man’s life before the French Revolution, but the main lesson to be drawn from them is that nothing from Robespierre’s formative years is of much use for explaining his political behavior. (more…)
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Most people in pro-white circles believe the youth are increasingly on our side, but web traffic data suggests their support relative to other age groups has plateaued. While the dissident right’s overall audience is younger on average than that of the mainstream right, the youngest audiences belong to mainstream rightists Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. (more…)
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Today is the birthday of Lawrence Roscoe Brown, the author of The Might of the West, which the great Revilo P. Oliver proclaimed “one of the fundamental books of our century.” You can read Oliver’s review of The Might of the West here at Counter-Currents: