Tag Archives: evolutionary psychology

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 3: The Origins of the Weird Whites

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The essence of liberalism is individualism, and the primordial evolutionary fact of individualism is the “the cutting-off from the wider kinship group,” and the origins of this cutting-off can be traced back to Northern hunter-gatherers in Europe during the last glacial age in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, aristocratic individualism, articles, hunter gatherers, individualism, Indo-Europeans, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 13 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition

Morris V. de Camp

3,107 words

Kevin B. MacDonald
Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future
Self-published, 2019

Kevin B. MacDonald is famous – or notorious, depending on who you ask – for examining the Jewish ethnic group from a genetic, Darwinian, and cultural perspective. Read more …

Published: October 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, European history, hunter gatherers, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, liberalism, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, the Indo-Europeans | 5 Responses

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Race & Psychopathic Personality

F. Roger Devlin

2,246 words

Richard Lynn
Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality: An Evolutionary Analysis
Augusta, Ga.: Washington Summit Publishers, 2019

Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve (1994) demonstrated that racial differences in rates of social pathology in the United States – including crime, poverty, long-term unemployment, out of wedlock births, and welfare dependency – can in part be explained by differences in average intelligence. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, North American New Right, originals, psychology, psychopathy, racial differences, Richard Lynn | 9 Responses

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The Higher Cognitive Fluidity of the European Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

Julian Jaynes

7,982 words

Half of my book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, is about discrediting the multicultural claim that, as late as the mid-1700s, the West was no more advanced than the major civilizations of Asia, or China in particular, and that only a set of fortuitous circumstances gave the West a chance to industrialize first. The West did not “stumble” accidentally into the New World, I argued, and it was not “easy access” to the resources of the Americas, enslavement of blacks, or availability of cheap coal in Britain that made Britain’s takeoff possible.

Can Finland Prevail?

Howe Abbott-Hiss

2,364 words

Edward Dutton
The Silent Rape Epidemic: How the Finns Were Groomed to Love Their Abusers
Thomas Edward Press, 2019

Evolutionary psychology researcher and anthropologist Edward Dutton, most recently the author of At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for the Future, has just come out with another very interesting text. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Edward Dutton, Finland, Howe Abbott-Hiss, immigrants and crime, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals | 10 Responses

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Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

Representatives of two stages of mental development: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Why did the West rise to become the most powerful civilization, the progenitor of modernity, the culture with the most prodigious creators? The answers are plenty. But it may be that a child psychologist, Jean Piaget, has offered the best theoretical framework to explain the difference between the West and the Rest. Read more …

Published: October 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, Aristotle, articles, Council of European Canadians, North American New Right, racial differences, René Descartes, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 6 Responses

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Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

Jean Piaget

4,677 words

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Everyone has heard about Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) theory of the cognitive development of children. But no one knows that his theory placed Europeans at the top of the cognitive ladder with most humans stuck at the bottom — unless Europeans taught them how to think.

Piaget is widely recognized as the “greatest child psychologist of the twentieth century.” Unlike many other influential figures, Piaget’s discoveries have withstood the test of time. Read more …

Published: October 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Council of European Canadians, North American New Right, racial differences, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 2 Responses

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On the Kevin MacDonald–Nathan Cofnas Debate
Part 4: Reassessing The Culture of Critique

Spencer J. Quinn

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Part 4 of 4

Part 1 here, wherein I provide an introduction to this debate, a brief history, a recap of Kevin MacDonald’s counter-Semitic opus The Culture of Critique (hereafter, CofC), a summation of Nathan Cofnas’ major arguments against CofC, and a section which calls into question Cofnas’ objectivity in this debate. Read more …

Published: May 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald, Nathan Cofnas, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 8 Responses

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On the Kevin MacDonald–Nathan Cofnas Debate
Part 3: Refuting the Default Hypothesis

Spencer J. Quinn

3,106 words

Part 3 of 4

[Updated: Nathan Cofnas correctly points out that I included remarks by MacDonald that had later been revised. I’ve corrected the relevant portions below.]

Part 1 here, wherein I provide an introduction to this debate, a brief history, a recap of Kevin MacDonald’s counter-Semitic opus The Culture of Critique (hereafter, CofC), Read more …

Published: May 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald, Nathan Cofnas, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 9 Responses

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On the Kevin MacDonald–Nathan Cofnas Debate
Part 2: Universalism vs. Particularism

Spencer J. Quinn

Nathan Cofnas

1,931 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here)

In the first part, I provide an introduction to this debate, a recap of Kevin MacDonald’s counter-Semitic opus The Culture of Critique (hereafter, CofC), a summation of Nathan Cofnas’ major arguments against CofC, and also call into question Cofnas’ objectivity in this debate. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald, Nathan Cofnas, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

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Letter to the Z Man

Spencer J. Quinn

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Dear Z Man,

Like most of your articles, I thought your “Letter to the Antisemites” from March 11 was perfectly reasonable and well-put, yet I believe it missed a few crucial points. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anti-Semitism, articles, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Z Man | 13 Responses

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On Polygamy, Marrying Your Cousin, & Terrorism

Alan Smithee

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A popular argument is that terrorism is fundamentally a reaction to US foreign policy – that even if Islamic terrorists couch their anger in religious sentiments, indeed even if they believe that the US is in fact a “Great Satan” Read more …

Published: March 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arabs, inbreeding, North American New Right, originals, polygamy, terrorism | 10 Responses

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The Evolutionary Psychologist’s Guide to Picking Up Girls

F. Roger Devlin

1,406 words

Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller
Mate: Become the Man Women Want
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Time was when a young man did not need to master evolutionary psychology in order to find himself a girl. The adult world provided the young with ready-made social rituals for meeting, assessing one another’s prospects as a mate, and (eventually) entering into a lifelong covenant to bear and raise a new generation. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biologial sex differences, book reviews, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, F. Roger Devlin, game, Geoffrey Miller, North American New Right, originals, sexual selection | 15 Responses

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The Stones Cry Out:
Cave Art & the Origin of the Human Spirit, Part 5

Collin Cleary

3,360 words

Part 5 of 7 (other parts here)

5. Can Biology Explain Ekstasis?

I have already mentioned that scientists speculate that cave art (and religion, language, etc.) comes about as a result of some kind of genetic mutation, perhaps a “sudden, serendipitous, genetically-based brain reorganization.” Read more …

Published: January 7, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetic experience, anthropology, Aristophanes, art, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, cave art, Cleary cave art, Collin Cleary, Darwinism, ekstasis, European prehistory, Martin Heidegger, materialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Socrates, teleology | 2 Responses

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Swatting Flies:
Reflections on Men & Murder

Jef Costello

Hercules battles the hydra

4,531 words

Recently I suffered a plague of flies. It started small, with just a couple. I noticed one buzzing around the living room, moving at a fairly leisurely clip. It was easy to kill, a deed I committed with a dish towel. Read more …

Published: November 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Jef Costello, manliness, North American New Right, originals, sadism, sociopathy, violence, war | 24 Responses

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From the Editor
Two Must-Read Reviews at American Renaissance

Greg Johnson

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1. “Science Versus Ideology”: Thomas Jackson reviews Nancy Segal, Born Together – Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), 410 pp. $49.95: http://www.amren.com/features/2012/07/science-versus-ideology/

Benoist on Feminism, IQ, & the Wealth of Nations
Interview on the Human Sciences, Part 4

Alain de Benoist

860 words

Part 4 of 4

Translated by Greg Johnson

Specialists in evolutionary psychology claim that there are important differences between the sexes, and that these were acquired during the evolution of the species. To what does the New Right appeal to support its “differentialist feminism”?

Darwin’s Other Idea:
Geoffrey Miller’s The Mating Mind

Richard Hoste

1,925 words

Geoffrey Miller
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
New York: Random House, 2000

Darwinian evolution is seen as a cold, ruthless struggle for survival that shaped what we eventually became. But, the critic responds, whence kindness, humor, language, playfulness, art and creativity? Scientists have tried to explain altruism towards relatives as kin selection and other forms of morality as based on reciprocity, but we all often help people who are not related to us when there’s nothing to be gained. Read more …