Archive for the ‘Book Reviews’ category

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Mitt Romney is a Neo-Con

March 12, 2010

 
Alternative Right is back and today I review Mitt Romney’s No Apology.  He’s decent enough on domestic policy buy unfortunately a neo-con.  Supporting the American empire is a deal breaker for me.  
If Obama launched a war in the Middle East white America wouldn’t rally around him.  The test will be when a Republican is [...]

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Obama’s Mentor

March 10, 2010

 
At The Occidental Observer I review Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.  It’s quite a depressing read but helps explain how whites gave America up without a fight.  It may have been inevitable that the media would become the shaper of minds and it would be controlled by the group with the highest verbal IQ.  And [...]

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Taft Didn’t Understand Liberty

March 5, 2010

 
At Alternative Right I review Russell Kirk’s The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft. 
Despite being a hero to many on the Alternative Right, Taft thought that the four issues mentioned above, currency regulation, health care, education and housing, were too important to be left to the market. But he never explained why capitalism was the [...]

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The Darks Side of Progress

March 2, 2010

 
Eating Animals
By Jonathan Safran Foer
341 pp., Little, Brown and Company 2009
Why do we behave morally? There’s reciprocity and looking out for our genes. For many (most, I hope) of us there’s a natural dislike of cruelty. We try not to be responsible for any extra suffering in the world. Humans also [...]

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Yo-Yo Evolution

February 10, 2010

 
Here’s an excerpt from my newest column at VDare. 
A couple of months ago, I by accident came across a book called In God’s Image: The Natural History of Intelligence and Ethics. One of the blurbs on the back was written by Richard Lynn, so I thought it might be worth a look. However, I was unable [...]

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A Benefit of the American System

February 2, 2010

 
Check out my review of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s Game Change at The Occidental Observer and comment on it here.  The American political system with its individual ambitious personalities vying for the top spot is at least more entertaining than that of other countries.  If we were like some places and had the leader [...]

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The Last Racialists

January 29, 2010

 
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves-and Why It Matters
By B. R. Myers
200 pp., Melville House 2010
It’s always seemed to me that if human beings were naturally more inclined to buy into a blood based nationalism than some kind of universalistic ideology than this would be strong evidence that racial loyalty had a genetic [...]