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Editor’s Note:
This essay is from Michael Polignano’s book Taking Our Own Side, available in hardcover, paperback, and PDF download here.
The “Year of Reconciliation”
Counter-Currents
Author: Michael J. Polignano
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Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill
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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…)
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August 7, 2011 Michael J. Polignano
Website Outage
143 wordsOur web host experienced a power outage this morning, rendering us offline for approximately one hour from 6:00-7:00 PDT. It appears all hosts at our datacenter location were affected. We were continuously online for over 68 days prior to this incident, which is a great improvement over our previous web host. (more…)
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1,751 wordsThe first Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, was founded in West Jerusalem in 1953. This memorial was unique in two ways: (1) it is the only memorial built by Jews primarily for other Jews, rather than gentiles, and (2) it is the only Holocaust memorial created before organized Jewry began exploiting Jewish victimhood during WWII as a means to justify Israel’s expansionist policies by equating critics of Israel with the Nazis. (more…)
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1,988 wordsÜbersetzt von Deep Roots
English original here
[Scientific American, dessen Titelseite oben zu sehen ist, ist übrigens das amerikanische Mutterschiff der deutschen Ausgabe „Spektrum der Wissenschaft“, in der neben deutschen Beiträgen auch Übersetzungen aus Scientific American mit ein bis zwei Monaten Verzögerung erscheinen.] (more…)
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Rodun tieteellinen tutkimus on tienhaarassa. Ihmisen genomin kartoituksen myötä tiedemiehet tietävät enemmän rodusta ja rodullisista eroista kuin koskaan ennen. Mutta yhteiskunnan investoidessa enemmän ja enemmän rodullisen tasavertaisuuden valheeseen, tiedemiehille käy vaikeammaksi ja vaikeammaksi puhua näitä totuuksia. (more…)
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May 2, 2011 Michael J. Polignano
Geschlechterunterschiede
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “A Vision of Fiametta,” 1878
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Übersetzt von Deep Roots.
Vorwort von Greg Johnson:
Dieser Essay ist aus Michael Polignanos Buch Taking Our Own Side das hier in gebundener Ausgabe, als Paperback und PDF erhältlich ist.
21. Oktober 2003
Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich mit einer Freundin von mir, die sich als Feministin bezeichnet, eine hitzige Diskussion über Geschlechterunterschiede. (more…)
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Carl Gustav Carus, Memorial Monument to Goethe, 1835
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V roce 1787 ruský hrab? Grigorij Alexandrovi? Pot?mkin zorganizoval po nov? získaných teritoriích na Krymu vyhlídkovou jízdu pro carevnu Kate?inu. Všude, kam Kate?ina vkro?ila, uvid?la nádherné vesnice se š?astnými, prosperujícími vesni?any a usoudila, že je všechno v po?ádku. I když se Pot?mkinovi nep?átelé snažili hrab?te obvinit z oklamání carevny a z toho, že falešné vesnice sám nechal postavit, Pot?mkinovy ostrovy prosperity se staly fenoménem. Od té doby se výrazu „Pot?mkinova vesnice“ používá pro situaci, kdy faleš budí zdání reality. (more…)
