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Does primitive warfare hold the key to unlocking humanity's origin story?
Big Bang Between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago, something happened which kickstarted the development of our species. This was the dawn of human culture, the “big bang of human consciousness”. During the so-called Upper Paleolithic Revolution, humans began to create specialised tools, displaying for the first time a conceptual understanding of how to manipulate the... Read More
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A Response to Steve Sailer
Steve Sailer recently wrote an essay titled In This House We Believe: The Protestant Roots of Wokeness. Sailer states that his intent is to argue against what he calls the “obsession among callow rightists about declaring wokeness a foreign, un-American import by Marxists or Jews or Jewish Marxists or whatever.” With all the talk about... Read More
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A Review of Charles King's "Gods of the Upper Air"
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Charles King Doubleday, 2019 The description of Charles King at Amazon: We all know the scenario. We see a great cultural shift occurring before our eyes and seek to ascribe a reason. It’s only natural;... Read More
Roger Pearson, author and editor of 17 books, numerous articles, founding publisher of The Journal of Indo-European Studies, editor of The Mankind Quarterly, founding editor of The Journal of Political, Social and Economic Studies and Conservative Review, died in early January 2023. He was 95. (Published reports, including Wikipedia, citing the date of his passing... Read More
I am in the process of revising The Culture of Critique, hopefully to be published in 2023. The following is a revision of the first part of Chapter 2 of The Culture of Critique, titled “The Boasian School of Anthropology and the Decline of Darwinism in the Social Sciences.” This is the section on Franz... Read More
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An Intellectual History of the Last One Hundred Years
One morning a couple of years ago I received an urgent email from a moderately prominent libertarian figure strongly focused on antiwar issues. He warned me that our publication had been branded a "White Supremacist website" by the Washington Post, and urged me to immediately respond, perhaps by demanding a formal retraction or even taking... Read More
See also R1b—Gene Of Modern Civilization (And Red Hair) There seems to be a negative relationship between our growing knowledge of human genetics, and the extent to which we are allowed to publicly say that genetic differences between ethnic groups exist and matter. This became crystal clear recently when Bret Stephens’s New York Times piece... Read More
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Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung infection. This is one of the risks of getting older: you dodge one bullet only to get hit by another. The cemeteries are full of people... Read More
The anthropologist Bernard Arcand passed away last Friday at the age of 63. He was one of my favorite professors at Laval, probably because he was among the least ideological ones. He avidly read the works of different Marxist writers but never considered himself to be one. In fact, he often criticized the unconscious Marxism... Read More
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