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Contemporary liberalism often appears strange and unmoored, but it sits squarely within an older moral tradition: Western abolitionism, a movement that combined genuine humanitarian concern with a pronounced fanatical element. From its inception, abolitionism elevated distant moral causes above domestic social obligations, rejected incremental improvement, and justified coercion in the name of absolute moral ends. (more…)
Nathaniel Branden in the 1960s.
Nathaniel Branden in the 1960s.
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“What’s all the fuss about Dr. Mengele when Nathaniel Branden is alive and well and living in LA?” – A former member of Ayn Rand’s inner circle
In the 1960s, Ayn Rand was putting people on trial in her Manhattan apartment. Their crime? Social metaphysics. Members of “the Collective” — the in-joke term for Rand’s inner circle — would gather in her living room to hear the case against the accused. Nathaniel Branden, Rand’s business partner and erstwhile lover, acted as prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and sometimes executioner, all with the blessing of Miss Rand. (more…)
Junior
Junior
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My dog Junior is a 35-pound Boston Terrier/Boxer mix with the most consistently sweet disposition of any animal I’ve ever owned. He’s a great little guy, and except for his occasional bouts of gassiness, I can’t think of a bad thing to say about him. Yesterday morning while taking him for a walk through my slowly decaying lakeside Georgia community, I was suddenly forced to risk my life in an attempt to save his.
I wouldn’t do such a thing for many people besides my wife and son. (more…)
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For years now, readers have been urging me to review Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), which adapts Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel of the same name. I have resisted, because although A Clockwork Orange is often hailed as a classic, I thought it was dumb, distasteful, and highly overrated, so I didn’t want to watch it again. But I had first watched it decades ago. (more…)
Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.
Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.
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The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members (more…)
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A couple of months have passed since a five-year-old boy, Landen, was thrown off a third floor balcony in the Mall of America by an individual named Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda. Emmanuel had pre-planned a murder that day, stating at his sentencing that he had been angered by his string of rejections by women at the mall. He is now serving nineteen years in jail; a clear example of an unjust punishment, especially when viewed alongside the plight of our own political prisoners serving sentences for the crime of wrongthink.
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Übersetzt von Osimandia.
English original here
Juden haben viele einzigartige psychologische Charakteristika, durch die sie sich radikal von Nichtjuden unterscheiden. Eine Eigenschaft, die Juden in einer Situation unter vier Augen und sogar in Gruppensituationen an den Tag legen, ist eine scharfsinnige Empfindsamkeit für Feinheiten, Nuancen, Wünsche, Gedanken und Gefühle von Nichtjuden. (more…)
Psychopaths’ brains lack basic wiring that triggers compassion
Psychopaths’ brains lack basic wiring that triggers compassion
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German translation here
Jews have many unique psychological characteristics that render them radically unlike non-Jews. One quality Jews possess in one-on-one situations, and even group situations, is a keen sensitivity to the subtleties, nuances, desires, thoughts, and emotions of non-Jews. They can size up people of all races and interact with them extremely well. This is no doubt one reason for their prominent role as mediators and go-betweens. (more…)