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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 9: The Moral Argument for White Interests

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We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, identity, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, moral communities, morality, North American New Right, reprints, rhetoric, Ricardo Duchesne, white identity | 8 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

Ricardo Duchesne

Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

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Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, history, identity, individualism, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, morality, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, reputation, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology | 5 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

Ricardo Duchesne

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 Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, altruism, articles, civic nationalism, egalitarianism, empathy, German Idealism, individualism, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, negative liberty, North American New Right, positive liberty, Quakers, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Romanticism, structuralism, the Self | Leave a comment

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 6: From Puritan Individualism to Jewish Infiltration

Ricardo Duchesne

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (front, second from left) with his football team, 1899.

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Chapter 6, “Puritanism: The Rise of Egalitarian Individualism and Moralistic Utopianism,” of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, claims that Puritanism and the intellectual movements descending from this religion were the “most important” forces shaping the culture of the United States “from the eighteenth century down to the mid-twentieth century.” Read more …

Published: May 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anglo-American culture, aristocratic individualism, articles, Christianity, immigration, Jews and immigration, Jews in America, Kevin MacDonald, multiculturalism, North American New Right, Puritans, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Jewish question, WASPs | 2 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Hail the Catholic Church!

Ricardo Duchesne

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Since the beginning of his academic career in the early 1980s, Kevin MacDonald has been wondering why only in the West “wealthy, powerful men” have not sought “to control ever-larger numbers of women”. Evolutionary biology teaches that male reproductive success benefits greatly from the acquisition of multiple mates. In all societies, except those in which harsh ecological conditions limit the amount of surplus the society can generate, “it is expected that males with wealth and power” will employ their surpluses to “secure as many mates as possible.” This is Evolutionary Biology 101. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocratic individualism, articles, collectivism, incest, individualism, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, marriage, monogamy, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Catholic church, the church | 3 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition:
The Kinship Cut-Off

Ricardo Duchesne

William Dobson, Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfield, 1645.

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Have you spent countless hours searching for the origins of individualism in the philosophical treatises of the Western Canon? Reading Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition may make you think this was wasted time: the origins of individualism lie in the pedestrian world of family life. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, individualism, Kevin MacDonald, liberalism, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Scandinavia, socialism, Sweden | 6 Responses

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Video of the Day
Kevin MacDonald at The Scandza Forum

Video of the Day

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Kevin MacDonald introduces the ideas behind his latest book, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, in his talk at the recent Scandza Forum conference in Oslo. Read more …

Published: November 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged individualism, Kevin MacDonald, Scandza Forum, video of the day, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition

Morris V. de Camp

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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 …