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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My latest at The Occidental Observer is a review of The Holocaust Industry. White guilt and self-hatred has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Read it there and talk about it here.
And right on cue, the other day the repulsive Elie Wiesel told the Hungarian president to ban Holocaust denial.
Budapest – Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie [...]
At The Occidental Observer I review Sarah Palin’s autobiography/work of political philosophy.
The verdict: likable woman, not smart enough to be a successful national politician, and doesn’t oppose immigration anyway.
Those of us who believe in human biodiversity and see it as the antidote to liberalism would be mad to support a creationist.
Palin went to Arizona [...]
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