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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Nothing KKKompares to the KKK,” on the fact that for an organization that no longer exists in any meaningful sense, just about every group that is disliked by somebody ends up being compared to the Ku Klux Klan. (more…)
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The “just-world fallacy” is the childishly simplistic moral fantasy that the world is like a stupid Hollywood movie: an unerringly fair place where the good guys win, the bad guys lose, and everyone gets exactly what they deserve in the end. (more…)
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Back during the Iraq War, patriotic but misguided Americans like me mocked the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” This was ironic given France’s tradition of martial excellence as reflected in such English borrowings as “platoon,” “lieutenant,” and “reconnaissance,” to name only a few. (more…)
Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania
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Richard Hanania is a rising star among Right-wing intellectuals. He has a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. He first came to national attention in 2015 with an op-ed in The Washington Post about why Donald Trump was right not to apologize for his controversial remarks. (This is ironic, given recent events.) (more…)
Kevin Alfred Strom
Kevin Alfred Strom
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To learn that Nazis don’t rule over you, all you have to do is say bad things about Nazis. Nothing bad will happen to you.
Last weekend, Twitter CEO Elon Musk found himself swirling in another maelstrom of online fart-rage after he retweeted a meme falsely attributing the following statement to French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire: (more…)
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Dear Tucker,
The New York Times recently speculated that FOX News fired you because of a January 7, 2021 text message of yours, which reads: (more…)
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Traduit par Ulrich Duca
Dans mon débat avec E. Michael Jones sur la guerre en Ukraine, ma déclaration d’ouverture affirmait que les nationalistes en Occident — et en fait, à travers le monde — devraient soutenir l’Ukraine contre son envahisseur, la Russie. E. Michael Jones a affirmé que les Occidentaux ne devraient pas soutenir l’Ukraine. (more…)
Artist’s impression of Eleven as a child. Image credit: Wise Snail Art.
Artist’s impression of Eleven as a child. Image credit: Wise Snail Art.
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I recently finished watching the very popular Netflix series Stranger Things, and was impressed with the character of Eleven. She is a girl who comes from a difficult background and is gifted with exceptional abilities. I was particularly interested in the contrast between her mindset and that of others who have similar skills, as this is relevant to our situation today.
Eleven was kidnapped at birth by a scientist, Dr. Brenner, who runs a lab in which he studies children with strange powers. (more…)
Riot in Knowsley on February 10 that was sparked by a video of a migrant propositioning a minor.
Riot in Knowsley on February 10 that was sparked by a video of a migrant propositioning a minor.
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Out, damn’d Scot!
So it’s fare thee well to dime-store Lady Macbeth, Nicola Sturgeon. The Scottish premier, and the woman Nigel Farage called the most unpleasant politician he had ever met, quit after an uproar, which is what journalists reading tweets and sensing a story is called just at the moment. (more…)
Vera Lidell has been charged with a peculiarly black crime: stealing $1.5 million in chicken wings from a Chicago-area school.
Vera Lidell has been charged with a peculiarly black crime: stealing $1.5 million in chicken wings from a Chicago-area school.
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Would your average bushman of the Kalahari, languidly nibbling on a mud-and-cow-dung pie while swatting at tsetse flies and hoping to reach the tender old age of 25, consider it a privilege to be driving a white Lexus down Pacific Coast Highway in Southern California? (more…)
