One of the more interesting things about the pulp star Doc Savage, the man of bronze, is that he carried out operations on the brains of criminals in order to correct them. These exercises in popular culture — the 181 pulp novels written by Lester Dent — are thus one of the most basic advocates for eugenics throughout the 1930s and ’40s. (more…)
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July 22, 2011 Dietrich Wolf
The Soul of Jack London, Part 4
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Jack London was a fervent and active member of the American socialist movement for many years. He, however, possessed a radically different interpretation of socialist doctrine from that of the mainstream of the movement. (more…)
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Race was of utmost importance to London. His unshakable views on the subject were expressed ardently even in some of his works of socialist propaganda. A good sampling of London’s racial perspective at the turn of the century may be found in his letters to Cloudesley Johns. Johns, a young post-office employee from southern California, wrote London a fan letter in 1899, praising one of the latter’s magazine articles. The result was a strong friendship that lasted until London’s death. (more…)
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American Opinion, December 1963 (part 4 of 4 of History and the Historians)
History is the record of what men do. Scientific discoveries and technological applications of them are often events of historical importance, but do not affect our understanding of the historical process since they shed no light on the behavior of men in civilized societies. (more…)
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June 18, 2011 William Pierce
La mesure de la grandeur
English original here
Le 20 avril de cette année [1989] est le 100ème anniversaire de la naissance du plus grand homme de notre ère : un homme qui osa plus et réussit plus, qui plaça son but plus haut et s’éleva plus haut, qui comprit plus profondément et remua les âmes de ceux qui étaient autour de lui plus puissamment, qui fut plus profondément en accord avec la Force de Vie qui anime le Cosmos et qui lui donne son sens et son but, et qui fit plus pour servir cette Force de Vie, que tout autre homme de notre temps. (more…)
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Turn on a local television news program in just about any large city in this country, and the chances are nearly 100% that you’ll hear and see at least one Black announcer telling you what’s happening. He’ll be dressed and groomed just like the White announcers, and, in most cases, his enunciation will be so similar that you can close your eyes for a moment and almost convince yourself that you are listening to a White person. (more…)
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Frank Dikötter
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998Francis Galton said that the first country to undertake a dedicated program of eugenics would conquer the world. (more…)
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French translation here
April 20 of this year [1989] is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the greatest man of our era — a man who dared more and achieved more, who set his aim higher and climbed higher, who felt more deeply and stirred the souls of those around him more mightily, who was more closely attuned to the Life Force which permeates our cosmos and gives it meaning and purpose, and did more to serve that Life Force, than any other man of our times.
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Whenever I tell people I favor eugenics they tell me that the state shouldn’t have such power. One thing that’s overlooked is that it already does. As Herrnstein and Murray wrote in The Bell Curve:
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April 8, 2011 Michael J. Polignano
The Ethics of Racial Preservation:
Frank Salter’s On Genetic InterestsCzech translation here
Editor’s Note:
Originally written in 2005, this essay is from Michael Polignano’s book Taking Our Own Side, available in hardcover, paperback, and PDF download here.
Frank Kemp Salter
On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
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Richard Lynn
Eugenics: A Reassessment
Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers 2001One of the only valid points made by the critics of Bell Curve was that if the science was accepted, then eugenics, which Hernstein and Murray refused to endorse, becomes the rational solution to society’s ills. (more…)
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Richard Lynn
Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations
Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996