');
The Unz Review •�An Alternative Media Selection$
A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
RSS
Show by ⇅�
Email This Page to Someone

�Remember My Information



=>
Sources Filter? ❌
da-russophile sublime-oblivion
Nothing found
�
BlogAnatoly Karlin Archive
/
France
�BlogAnatoly Karlin Archive
/
France

◄►Bookmark◄❌►▲ ▼Toggle AllToC▲▼Add to LibraryRemove from Library •�B
Show CommentNext New CommentNext New ReplyRead More
ReplyAgree/Disagree/Etc. More... This Commenter This Thread Hide Thread Display All Comments
AgreeDisagreeThanksLOLTroll
These buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment. They are ONLY available to recent, frequent commenters who have saved their Name+Email using the 'Remember My Information' checkbox, and may also ONLY be used three times during any eight hour period.
Ignore Commenter Follow Commenter
Book Review: Michel Houellebecq - Submission
•�February 22, 2021
•�2,400 Words •�163 Comments
Michel Houellebecq - SUBMISSION (2015) Rating: 4/5 You can access all of my latest book, film, and video game reviews at this link, as well as an ordered, categorized list of all my book reviews and ratings here: Finally read Houellebecq's Submission a few weeks ago, filling in a major and hitherto embarrassing lacuna. He... Read More
Chechens in France, Khabib, and Sinotriumph
•�October 31, 2020
•�700 Words •�157 Comments
So a Chechen refugee who was brutally persecuted by evil Russian occupiers and forced to flee to France recently beheaded a French teacher for triggering him with Mohammed cartoons. Difficult to care much. The French cultural elites, more so even than usual in the West, have long portrayed Chechens as noble freedom fighters against Russian... Read More
Film Review: Cuties (2020)
•�September 19, 2020
•�1,200 Words •�270 Comments
CUTIES (2020) Rating: 3/5 You can access all of my latest book, film, and video game reviews at this link, as well as an ordered, categorized list of all my film reviews and ratings here: � The latest conservative triggering is over a French film called Cuties (Mignonnes). Having premiered this January without incident, it... Read More
Canceling Colbert. (The French One).
•�June 24, 2020
•�200 Words •�26 Comments
As I keep saying, the #BLM lunacy is transcontinental, spreading from the imperial center to the colonies. France renames a school from Colbert, the founder of dirigisme and one of the founders fathers of economic protectionism, whose reforms allowed the Sun King to achieve Napoleonic Wars-level mobilization rates and fight half of Europe... to Rosa... Read More
Chechen vs. Algerian Race War in Dijon, France
•�June 15, 2020
•�100 Words •�68 Comments
RT: Speeding car FLIPS OVER amid clashes between Chechen and Arab gangs in Dijon, France (VIDEOS) According to the Chechens, the Algerians started it by beating up a 16 year old boy at a shisha bar. The Chechens then called in reinforcements from all over France. Anyhow, my bet is on the Chechens. It will... Read More
France As Epicenter of Fertility Transition
•�June 18, 2019
•�700 Words •�132 Comments
Spolaore, Enrico, and Romain Wacziarg. 2019. “Fertility and Modernity.” Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research. As hbd*chick points out, this suggests that the fertility transition in Europe was substantially independent of the Industrial Revolution, and was a process of cultural diffusion that emanated from France (where it began before 1830).
Notre Dame
•�April 15, 2019
•�100 Words •�114 Comments
I visited it sometime in the early 2000s. Too young to remember any details, but I'm sure it was a nice place. I translated an article by Egor Kholmogorov back in 2013: Europe's Week of Human Sacrifice. (Incidentally, this was my blog's first ever Kholmogorov translation). TBH, I can't be bothered being as Christian and... Read More
Open Thread 66
•�February 10, 2019
•�600 Words •�106 Comments
Long time no Open Thread! Will try to return to a weekly OT schedule henceforth. The "core" of my series on the Age of Malthusian Industrialism is done. Here is a quick table of contents: Original article introducing the concept: A Short History of the Third Millennium AoMI I: Where Do Babies Come From? AoMI... Read More
BHL vs. Houellebecq on Russia
•�January 31, 2019
•�1,100 Words •�97 Comments
Commenter Swedish Family on BHL and Houellebecq on Russia: Seeing Bernard-Henri Lévy's name here made me dig out an old book of his, Public Enemies, a book of Lévy's mail correspondence with novelist Michel Houellebecq in the spring of 2008 (so after Putin's Munich speech but half a year before Lehman Brothers and the war... Read More
Macron's Francophilia
•�November 11, 2018
•�100 Words •�129 Comments
Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By putting our own interests first, with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation holds dearest, and the thing that keeps it alive: its moral values. - Emmanuel Macron (2018). He who does not love his mother... Read More
20% of French Newborns Muslim
•�October 31, 2018
•�700 Words •�133 Comments
Guillaume Durocher has an English language write-up of the disquieting conclusions reached by researchers at the nationalist French website Fdesouche. These assertions are based on the percentage of Muslim first names granted at birth, statistics for which can be downloaded from INSEE (France) and Statbel (Belgium). Here are the original articles: Baromètre 2018 du taux... Read More
France and the False Front
•�May 16, 2017
•�1,200 Words •�411 Comments
In my coverage of the French elections, I've been vaccilating between optimism and pessimism. Obviously, Le Pen's result - 34% of the vote - was unprecedentedly good, and her popularity seemed to be especially strong amongst French youth. On the other hand, it was perhaps not as good a result as could have been expected,... Read More
/Ourgal/ Comes Apart
•�May 7, 2017
•�1,000 Words •�85 Comments
So the new President of the Fifth Republic is a cocaine-snorting, Bilderberg-attending, Rothschild bank-employed "outsider" and bisexual gigolo with offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands who believes there is no such as French culture (but let's import infinity Moslems just to make sure). We are reaching levels of globalism that shouldn't even be possible! ***... Read More
The French Elections 2017 (Round Two)
•�May 6, 2017
•�800 Words •�93 Comments
I don't have much to add to my previous posts on this matter: The French Elections 2017 (Round One) Le Pen Is Out of Ink The French Blackpill, Quantified Stark Truth: On the French Elections Global Opinion of Marine Le Pen An n=8,200 Ipsos poll from May 5 gave Emmanual Macron 63% to Le Pen's... Read More
Global Opinion of Marine Le Pen
•�May 4, 2017
•�300 Words •�109 Comments
I haven't been able to locate any international surveys on Macron vs. Le pen like there were for Trump, unsurprisingly so, since France is after all less important than the US. Still, I have been able to find polls from Germany, Russia, and the UK. *** According to a ZDF poll of who would be... Read More
Stark Truth: On the French Elections
•�May 3, 2017
•�200 Words •�16 Comments
My latest podcast with Robert Stark, co-host and proponent of Asian-Aryanism pilleater, and Alt Right legend Guillaume Durocher, who has written for Counter-Currents, Radix, and Occidental Observer. We mostly talked about the French elections and French demographics. Here's a link: The final election round between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron The French Elections 2017... Read More
The French Blackpill, Quantified
•�April 27, 2017
•�900 Words •�59 Comments
One of the reasons that I consider the results of these elections to have been strongly disappointing for the Front National is that it represents not just a stunting but a reversal of their upwards trend since the late 2000s. For instance, back in December 2015, the Front National almost doubled their share of the... Read More
Le Pen Is Out of Ink
•�April 26, 2017
•�1,000 Words •�321 Comments
Marine Le Pen got just 4.0% of the vote in the 11th arrondissement of Paris in the first round of the French Presidential elections. Emmanuel Macron, who said that terrorism will be part of our daily lives for years to come (echoing London Mayor Sadiq Khan's sentiment that this is just "part and parcel of"... Read More
france-elections-2017-whos-who
The French Elections 2017 (Round One)
•�April 22, 2017
•�1,200 Words •�332 Comments
François Hollande, widely considered to be a failure with single digit approval ratings, has - unusually for French politics - decided not to run for a second term. The polls are now split almost evenly between four canditates: The neoliberal Emmanuel Macron; the hard left Jean-Luc Mélenchon; the conservative François Fillon; and the nationalist Marine... Read More
Majority of French Siloviks Support Front National
•�January 10, 2016
•�300 Words •�37 Comments
An absolute majority - 51.5% - of French policemen and soldiers planned to vote for the Front National in the recent regional elections, according to a poll by CEVIPOF. This is far more impressive than the oft quoted 20% of Greek policemen who support Golden Dawn (though to be sure Golden Dawn is far more... Read More
The Triumph of the Front National
•�December 14, 2015
•�400 Words •�49 Comments
It is very easy to be pessimistic about the results of the just concluded regional French elections, in which the Front National failed to win a single region. Thanks to the Socialists throwing multiple regions in Houellebecqian manner, the obvious big victor were The Republicans of Nicolas "Le Métissage Obligatoire" Sarkozy. Surely in the wake... Read More
Translation: Egor Kholmogorov - A Cruel French Lesson
and •�November 17, 2015
•�1,900 Words •�2 Comments
A Cruel French Lesson, by Egor Kholmogorov appeared in the November 14 issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of the leading Russian dailies. It outlines what is pretty much the standard right-wing conservative Russian position on the #ParisAttacks. Some context: After the terrorist strikes, many outspoken Russian liberals rushed to wrap their digital selves in the... Read More
Je Me Sens Dieudonné
•�November 16, 2015
•�500 Words •�27 Comments
Charlie Hebdo had a hearty response to the terrorist downing of KGL9268: "The dangers of low-cost Russian airlines," "I should have taken Air Cocaine," "Daesh: Russian aviation intensifies the bombing." So drôle! When challenged on Russian condemnations of their humor: Of course, as traditi
The Paris Terror Attacks
•�November 14, 2015
•�800 Words •�220 Comments
I am too tired right now to compile all this into something more elegant than a point-by-point rant, so here goes: Some preliminary thoughts on the latest terrorist attacks that have claimed 128+ lives in Paris. (1) The usual cucks have wasted no time in making political hay of this tragedy Ezra Klein: "This tragedy... Read More
The Abortive Mistral Deal Works Out for Russia
•�September 23, 2015
•�300 Words •�11 Comments
Egypt rubs in the salt in Hollande's wounds by ordering 50 Alligator helicopters from Russia to outfit the Mistrals, which France is now going to sell to Egypt. So to sum up this whole sorry affair: (1) Russia originally ordered French Mistrals under Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. His foreign aquisitions were ostensibly aimed to pressure... Read More
Auschwitz and the Power of Propaganda
•�January 27, 2015
•�1,200 Words •�44 Comments
Title got your attention? No, it's not going to be... that. Read on. While the rest of the world (or a few Europeans, anyway) is obsessed with yet another "Polish death camps" episode, this time on CNN, a somewhat more significant historical scandal brewed between Poland and Russia. Explaining away Poroshenko's status as a guest... Read More
Je M'en Fous de Charlie Hebdo
•�January 19, 2015
•�3,300 Words •�26 Comments
A couple of Islamist terrorists, the brothers Kouachi, murdered a bunch of cartoonists. Another terrorist, Coulibaly, went on a rampage. All three ended up taking hostages. Counter-terrorists win! Within minutes, everyone had become an expert on Charlie Hebdo's work, and the typical and inevitably dreary debate began. Some said Charlie's cartoons were clearly, stridently Islamophobic,... Read More
A Chess Game to the Death
•�January 29, 2013
•�700 Words •�4 Comments
I am back to writing for the US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel, which since my hiatus has found an additional home at Voice of Russia. The latest topic was on whether Russia, China, and the West could find a common approach to the challenges of the Arab Spring. My response is pessimistic, as in my view... Read More
Liberal Butthurt Over the Depardieu Defection
•�January 24, 2013
•�1,500 Words •�9 Comments
I had great fun observing the fallout over Depardieu's "defection" to Russia. The reason for the apostrophes is of course because it had nothing to do with it. It was Depardieu trolling Hollande and the French "Socialists", and Putin trolling Westerners and his own homegrown "democratic journalists." (Or maybe not? In any case, I for... Read More
Where Do the French Presidential Candidates Stand on Russia?
•�April 22, 2012
•�1,200 Words •�18 Comments
Le Nouvel Observateur recently compiled opinions on Russian democracy from each of the ten French Presidential candidates. While the Left is highly critical of the authoritarian Putin regime, the Right is more favorably disposed to the Russian President-elect. On the eve of the first round of the French Presidential elections, I provide a translation of... Read More
Seven Myths About the Russian Elections
•�April 1, 2012
•�1,300 Words •�11 Comments
Apart from direct falsifications, which were extensively discussed here, the other really big criticism of the Russian elections process is that it isn't a level playing field. As said by an OSCE bureaucrat, "The point of elections is that the outcome should be uncertain. This was not the case in Russia." Well wait a second.... Read More
Prokhorov, President of Londongrad
•�March 7, 2012
•�1,400 Words •�19 Comments
Once again, a picture that's worth a thousand words, courtesy of Alex Kireev: A map of how Russians abroad voted in the 2012 elections (see below). Quantitatively, they split into three main groupings, each accounting for about a third of the votes from abroad: (1) Residents of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Pridnestrovie; (2) Other republics... Read More
Making Sense of Russia's Arms Binge
•�February 21, 2012
•�1,200 Words •�15 Comments
In the wake of Putin's article on national security for Rossiyskaya Gazeta, there has been renewed interest in Russia's ambitious military modernization plans for the next decade. I am not a specialist in this (unlike Dmitry Gorenberg and Mark Galeotti, whom I highly recommend), but I do think I can bring much-needed facts and good... Read More
Are Russians As Rich As Czechs?
•�January 31, 2012
•�300 Words •�20 Comments
In terms of new cars, they now are. According to 2011 statistics, Russians bought 17.6 new automobiles per 1000 people. This indicator is still quite a bit below most of Western Europe, such as Germany's 38.5, France's 33.4, Britain's 31.9, Italy's 30.1, and Spain's 20.0. However, it has already overtaken most of East-Central Europe, whose... Read More
Russophobe Hack Exposed, or: the Misadventures of Dorothée Olliéric of France-2
•�August 26, 2010
•�700 Words •�9 Comments
So you know how the Western commentariat carries on about how Russia Today fawns over the Kremlin and propagates anti-Western propaganda, while shamelessly peddling itself as a paragon of universal truth and uncompromising objectivity? Welcome to the next installment in the never-ending annals of Western media hypocrisy, brought to you courtesy of Dorothée Olliéric, hack... Read More
Regathering of the Russian Lands
•�January 27, 2010
•�4,700 Words •�14 Comments
I have long noted Russia's resurgence back into the ranks of the leading Great Powers; I predicted that the global economic crisis will not have a long-term retarding impact on the Russian economy; and within the past year I have bought into Stratfor's idea that the defining narrative now in play in Eurasia is Russia's... Read More
The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich
•�August 24, 2009
•�5,300 Words •�64 Comments
On the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, signed on August 23, 1939 (also my birthday!), historians, ideologues and everyone in between inevitably fall into a game of recriminations, revisionism and relativism. The anti-Soviet side maintains that the Pact gave Germany a free hand in the... Read More
Rite of Spring: Russia Fertility Trends
•�April 26, 2009
•�5,100 Words •�5 Comments
After its long pre-modern stint as Europe's most populated nation, France started transitioning to lower birth rates from the Napoleonic era, about a century in advance of the rest of Europe. On the eve of the First World War, its stagnant population made a stark contrast to German youth and virility. Considering the disparity in... Read More
Was the French Revolution Primarily a Class Struggle?
•�April 4, 2009
•�2,900 Words •�3 Comments
The classic Marxist argument holds than an emerging bourgeois class, its wealth based on commerce, industry and capital accumulation, was constrained and frustrated in its political ambitions by the nobility. France was divided into Three Estates, the Third Estate which bore the taille (the main direct tax), the nobility (subject only to the capitation poll... Read More
"France" Items Across Entire Archive
Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.