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Even though it does not receive quite as much attention as it deserves, one important aspect of the Cultural Revolution in the 60s is the sudden rise and rapid dominance of “descriptivism” in academia, education, and editorial staff in dictionaries, usage guides, and grammar manuals. (more…)
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Abigail Shrier
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
New York: Sentinel, 2024
Abigail Shrier is a journalist associated with the “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW) who is known for her writing on adolescent girls who identify as transgender. Her earlier book, Irreversible Damage, was previously reviewed at Counter-Currents. Her most recent book, Bad Therapy, takes aim at modern therapy culture and accuses mental health professionals of inducing distress in otherwise healthy young people. (more…)
Xerxes I of Persia and his wife, Queen Amestris
Xerxes I of Persia and his wife, Queen Amestris
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Part 4 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here)
In our previous installment, Socrates has convinced Alcibiades that he is ignorant of justice. Therefore, he should not go into politics until he is educated. But Socrates undermines his argument by pointing out that none of the other eminent Athenians, even Pericles himself, knows what justice is. From this, Alcibiades concludes that if his rivals for power are equally ignorant, he has no need to waste time on education, because he is confident that he can beat them based on his superior nature. (more…)
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Part 3 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)
In the second part of this series, Socrates shows Alcibiades that he doesn’t know what justice is, so he should not be too eager to get involved in politics before he gets an education. But Alcibiades thinks he’s found a way around Socrates’ argument. Granted, he doesn’t know what justice is. But politics doesn’t really deal with justice (δικαιοσύνη). It deals with the expedient or advantageous (συμφέροντα). (more…)
Katharine Birbalsingh (photo from the UK government website).
Katharine Birbalsingh (photo from the UK government website).
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The Jesuits famously pronounced, after Aristotle, “Give me the child and I will give you the man.” This maxim, or a version of it, reappears throughout the history of education, and by the time it reaches Vladimir Illyich Lenin, it has taken on a more sinister tone, as you might expect: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” The modern Western state has accepted the baton, and effectively says the same thing.
I am not a parent, but I have to feel for those who are. (more…)
George Caleb Bingham, Stump Speaking (1853) Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
George Caleb Bingham, Stump Speaking (1853) Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
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The poll of white registered voters on race relations that I conducted for The Homeland Institute revealed that despite many gains in recent years, our people are still woefully uneducated about the truth regarding Martin Luther King, Jr., and by extension the broader Civil Rights paradigm. (more…)
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Most people, including nationalists, focus on schools and, to a lesser extent, universities when discussing education. Both of these are classic examples of formal education. In this essay I will argue that while formal education is important, it is not so much so as most people believe, and that non-formal and informal education are much more important. (more…)
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Although we’ve been through worse, 2023 was one of those years I’m happy to see in the rear-view mirror at last. Since the plandemic began, Clown World mutated into Scary as Hell Clown Like John Wayne Gacy World, and it hasn’t improved much. Throughout the past year, my browser’s start page never failed to bring in digital flotsam proving the point. There’s much clowning to be had, but it’s not so funny anymore. (more…)
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If the current regime disappeared, and I were given a free hand to create an ethnostate, this is what I would do. I am going to focus simply on policies and institutions, not practical questions about how we would gain and keep the power to implement them.
1. First and foremost, I would declare that America is the homeland of the American people, a people of European stock. (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
The late, great G. Gordon Liddy certainly was a remarkable individual. History best knows him as the most colorful of the Watergate burglars, and the only one who kept his mouth shut throughout. After the statute of limitation expired, he had plenty to say about his motivations, especially in his autobiography Will. Leading up to that misadventure, he had been a member of the FBI when it was more respectable. (more…)
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Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here)
Transcript by Hyacinth Bouquet. The following is a transcript of the fourth part of Marian Van Court and Arthur Jensen’s conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below.
There are a few places where the recording is inaudible, and have been marked as such. If you can figure out what is being said, or if you have other corrections, please offer them in the comments below. (more…)
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Life is hard in the column racket, I tell you. The work load is crushing. Every week I get many hundreds of e-mails (well, okay, I would if I did, but this is close enough for journalism) asking, “Fred, Fred, what beneficial and meritorious measures will you enact when you become dictator? What will you do to set the course of American society for centuries to come?” (more…)
