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Image source: UEFA website.

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This rot has spread from the Anglosphere and is now found even in nations with far less “diversity.” Italy, the defending champions going into Euro 2024, were very disappointing this time around. (more…)

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Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided . . . will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual, and economical exhaustion.

That is a line from an apocryphal letter claimed to have been written by the nineteenth-century American Freemason Albert Pike, in which he made a few amazingly accurate predictions about the future of civilization. He never wrote those words, but by the gods, someone should have. Does that sentence not perfectly describe the state of the West right now? (more…)

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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul,” on the fact that although he’s widely considered a baseball legend in America, slugger Reggie Jackson still can’t get over the racism he allegedly encountered in his youth. (more…)

Reggie Jackson (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

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On Thursday, June 20, Major League Baseball sponsored an event called “A Tribute to the Negro Leagues” at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, where Negro players used to vie against other Negro players back before the brave and holy Negro Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. (more…)

Caitlin Clark (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Women’s basketball has surged in popularity among American sports fans over the past few years, thanks largely to the shooting skills of Caitlin Clark. Clark, a 22-year-old who hails from the state of Iowa, recently became the all-time leading scorer in the history of college basketball. Throughout her four years playing for the University of Iowa, Clark entertained spectators with her unmatched ability to make shots from long distances. The broadcast of last season’s women’s national championship game between Clark’s Iowa team and the University of South Carolina drew 18.9 million viewers, which not only set the viewership record for a women’s basketball game but actually received higher ratings than the next night’s men’s championship game. (more…)

Hank Willis Thomas, The Embrace

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On April 15, the day my bank check landed in the Treasury Department’s post office box to perhaps help fund the welfare state or assist in promoting multiracialism and transgenderism at home and abroad, I was running the 128th Boston Marathon — the oldest annual marathon in the world. To be selected to run Boston, one must run a designated qualifying time standard at an earlier marathon. (more…)

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One of my favorite movies is the 1986 film Hoosiers. As a lifelong sports fan and former basketball player, I am drawn to the story of an underdog high school team overcoming the odds to win a championship. Set in the fictional town of Hickory in the early 1950s, it showcases the unique relationship between high school basketball and the culture of rural Indiana.

The title of the film is significant. “Hoosier” has a long history as a colloquial term for natives of Indiana. According to the Indiana Historical Bureau: (more…)

Ramadan lights near Leicester Square in London, March 2023.

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Christ, you know it ain’t easy

So, the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland staggers through another year of our Lord, although that’s not a much-used phrase just at the moment. (more…)

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When we think of martyrs of race realism, the people whose lives and livelihoods were destroyed for promoting race realism, we naturally tend to think of academics and political commentators. James Watson, discoverer of DNA, was unpersoned and rendered unemployable for saying that Africans were less intelligent than other races. John Derbyshire, once a fan favorite among National Review readers, was expelled from Con Inc for his 2012 Takimag article “The Talk: Nonblack Version” in which he dropped a barrage of unpleasant yet undeniable facts about blacks. (more…)

Sir Bobby Charlton

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Proxy warriors

As I hoped to make clear in my piece last week on the Gaza conflict, Israel vs. Palestine is much like Liverpool vs. Tottenham (if you get the football reference) in that I would like both sides to lose.

However, daggers are drawn and fighting has commenced. It is all rather a long way away, but one of the great things about the modern world is that you don’t have to go out to get things. (more…)

Stuart Broad

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Sports writers and commentators occasionally use the term “a fairytale ending” to describe a particularly exciting game won late in the day, or perhaps a sporting career which ends perfectly, as if it were scripted. It is a curious phrase, because if these writers and pundits were better acquainted with the work of The Brothers Grimm, the nineteenth-century German polymaths, they would know that not all fairytales end happily. If you have an unruly child, make it read The Juniper Tree as punishment, and sit and chuckle at the nightmares that ensue. (more…)

Israel Adesanya (left) and Dricus Du Plessis

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A near-perfect embodiment of our current-day troubles has recently metastasized in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Octagon. If the following story has thus far escaped your notice, good. There is nothing inherently interesting or important about this latest discharge of middleweight trash-talk, but what this drama so neatly represents – well, that’s a different story. (more…)

Luz Long and Jesse Owens.

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