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John Singleton Copley, "The Copley Family," 1776

Джон Синглтон Копли, семья Копли, 1776

7,749 words

English original here

История евгеники является трагедией. Основа движения зародилась в античности – вера в то, что мир стал бы гораздо лучше, если бы здоровые и умные люди имели наибольшее количество детей. Read more …

Published: April 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eugenics, in Russian, in translation, John Glad, Kevin MacDonald, Marian Van Court, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, the holocaust, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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A Giraffe Dies in Denmark

Irmin Vinson

Marius the giraffe

3,054 words

In February of 2014 a two-year old giraffe was euthanized at the Copenhagen Zoo. Worldwide media attention and an online petition signed by twenty-seven thousand friends of animals had failed to save him.

Against Good Breeding:
Understanding Jewish Opposition to Eugenics

Marian Van Court

John Singleton Copley, The Copley Family, 1776

8,356 words

Russian translation here

The story of eugenics has been a tragedy. The basic idea goes back to antiquity – the belief that the world would become a much better place if healthy and intelligent people had the most children. But in the 20th century, in a bizarre and mysterious twist of fate, something went terribly wrong, and what began as an altruistic movement to help future generations ended in the barbaric murder of millions. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eugenics, John Glad, Kevin MacDonald, Marian Van Court, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, the holocaust, the Jewish question | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 59
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 5 of 10

Greg Johnson

45:21 / 361 words

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Note: This installment has a somewhat choppy quality in places because of extensive discussion, Read more …

Published: July 31, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged ethics, G. W. F. Hegel, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, living well, morality, Napoleon Bonaparte, negative liberty, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, positive liberty, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, suicide, the Sophists | 1 Response

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Pilitak

Leo Yankevich

122 words

The agéd Eskimo, once “sangilak,”
the strongest of them all, prepares to die.
Today he will not shield a slanted eye,
nor starving in the evening stagger back.

Having fought a bear and years of cold,
fresh salmon never leave his fingertips,
and caribou blood never parts his lips.
And yet, he’s lost his balance and his hold.