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The Yoke of Woke: Nathan Cofnas Is Wrong About the Nature and Origins of Wokism
•�September 9, 2024
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I admire the moral courage of Nathan Cofnas, the Jewish philosopher and race-realist. He stood out against the dominant ideology of Cambridge University and was duly punished for his crimethink. He’s also stood up for the free speech of heretics like Kevin MacDonald, even though he doesn’t agree with MacDonald’s heresies. But I don’t admire... Read More
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Carl Jung and the Jews
•�June 29, 2024
•�3,400 Words •�201 Comments • Reply
For a long time I’ve been fascinated by the way in which Jews obsess over deceased, historical figures who made unflattering comments about their race. The more famous and talented, the greater the intensity of the obsession. Such preoccupations have featured previously at The Occidental Observer, for example in the Jewish vendetta against T.S. Eliot,... Read More
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A Review of Charles King's "Gods of the Upper Air"
•�March 3, 2024
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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
The Cofnas-MacDonald Debate Continues
•�January 26, 2024
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Here are interviews by Alex Murshak on the disagreements between Nathan Cofnas (who was interviewed first) and me. These interviews were conducted separately (Cofnas first) and neither of us had heard the other’s interview before we were interviewed. My interview: Youtube: RSS: Spotify: Apple: Here are the links to Nathan Cofnas’ interview as well: Youtube:... Read More
John Tooby on Coalitional Politics in Science
•�November 23, 2023
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John Tooby was a professor of anthropology at UC-Santa Barbara and, along with his wife Leda Cosmides, prominent in the field of evolutionary psychology. For a whole lot of reasons, we do not see eye-to-eye on pretty much anything related to evolutionary psychology, but Tooby has also criticized me for my work on Judaism and... Read More
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Why Are Jews So Influential?
•�October 31, 2023
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Jewish populations have always had enormous effects on the societies in which they reside because of several qualities that are central to the Jewish group evolutionary strategy and likely have been under genetic selection in Ashkenazi Jewish groups: First and foremost, Jews are ethnocentric and able to cooperate in highly organized, cohesive, and effective groups.... Read More
A Traditional Catholic Ponders the West and Its History
•�June 23, 2023
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Something broke in me. � To the extent that I have “future” readers — ones who will have read my observations and musings chronologically in my many reviews and articles — I will not now belabor how it is that I arrived here. Suffice it to say, my opinions have dramatically changed over several years.... Read More
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Tristan Tzara and the Jewish Roots of Dada
•�April 14, 2023
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The twentieth century saw a proliferation of art inspired by the Jewish culture of critique. The exposure and promotion of this art grew alongside the Jewish penetration and eventual capture of the Western art establishment. Jewish artists sought to rewrite the rules of artistic expression — to accommodate their own technical limitations and facilitate the... Read More
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Jews and Libertarianism
•�April 7, 2023
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In his influential study The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald analyses a number of 20th century intellectual and social movements that were led by Jews and often centred around some charismatic Jewish leader, including Boasian anthropology, Freudian psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. Approaching them from an evolutionary psychology and social identity theory perspective, MacDonald argues that... Read More
"Jewish Leftist" Is a Misnomer — Jewish Power Is Ultra-Rightist, Supremacist, and Imperialist — How Jewish Power Re-Co...
•�August 21, 2022
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If Jewish Power demeans Kevin MacDonald as a ‘white supremacist’, why doesn’t he react in kind and call them ‘Jewish Supremacist’ like David Duke does? Jews are clearly tribal-supremacist. Just ask the Palestinians. Also, can we just drop the habit of calling these Jews ‘leftists’ or ‘radicals’? If so-called Jewish ‘leftists’ have been profoundly Jewish... Read More
A Response to Some Issues in Ted Sallis’s Blog
•�July 26, 2022
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I recently became aware that Ted Sallis has been criticizing my book, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition (2019; hereafter Individualism) on his blog. Sallis is basically on-page with most of my work, including my work on Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy, and he has made great contributions in defending and promoting Frank Salter’s... Read More
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A Negative Review of Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition
•�July 17, 2022
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A rather negative review of my book Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future appeared by someone who calls himself thezman. I am not familiar with his blog, but he seems to be basically on the right side of things as indicated by its blogroll, which includes Vdare.com,... Read More
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My Journey to the Jewish Question
•�April 20, 2022
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Growing up in Southern California, I had always been around Jews. This is because many Jews attended the same public schools I did in the San Fernando Valley. My father had a business in Hollywood for almost 50 years, and a number of his clients and friends were Jewish. I can’t honestly say I had... Read More
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My Paper on Jewish Influence Blows Up
•�January 7, 2022
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My paper “The Default Hypothesis Fails to Explain Jewish Influence” has generated considerable controversy. Springer Nature has put up the following statement at the beginning of the article: The good news, of course, is that they are saying that I will be able to “respond in full.” This could get very interesting. Meanwhile, I have... Read More
"The Default Hypothesis Fails to Explain Jewish Influence"
•�January 1, 2022
•�700 Words •�34 Comments • Reply
Nathan Cofnas published a paper in the Israeli-based academic journal Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel in February of last year titled “The Anti-Jewish Narrative.” Andrew Joyce wrote a masterful reply, “The Cofnas Problem,” while I decided to try to publish a response in Philosophia. My paper went through two rounds of peer review and was... Read More
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An Antidote to the Jewpill (Part 2: Antichristianity)
•�December 7, 2021
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In the first part of this post, we took a hammer to the work of Dr. Kevin MacDonald – albeit not primarily to destroy, but to build. What we built was a theory in which the revolutionary, progressive ideology co-opted and converted the Jews to its own purposes, rather than the other way around. The... Read More
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An Antidote to the Jewpill (Part I: Group Evolutionary Strategy)
•�October 24, 2021
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So my last post, a critique of white nationalism, was republished at the Unz Review to an overwhelmingly hostile comment audience. I wasn't expecting the repost, but the response was all too predictable. In spaces dominated by WN – like the Alt-Right and the Dissident Right – there are unspoken rules about criticising it. It... Read More
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Jones vs. KMac: Spirit or Material? Toward a Synthesis
•�October 16, 2021
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By now, healthy numbers of informed people are generally aware of the work of our editor Kevin MacDonald and traditional Catholic thinker E. Michael Jones. Much of their influence comes from the fact that both have devoted major portions of their careers to writing about what is absolutely the most pressing issue of our age:... Read More
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The Cofnas Problem
•�March 22, 2021
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Shortly after Nathan Cofnas published his first article on Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique in 2018,[1] I spent a few weeks sketching out a quite extensive ‘skeleton’ for a rebuttal I intended to flesh out and publish at The Occidental Observer. The speed and extent of replies from MacDonald,[2] and, later, Ed Dutton, eventually made... Read More
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Jews in the Cathedral: A Response to Curtis Yarvin
•�October 17, 2020
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Having read deeply into the Jewish Question for almost 20 years, I’m always fascinated by novel objections to anti-Semitism. This was the case when I was prompted to turn to the writings of Curtis “Mencius Moldbug” Yarvin by a recent Keith Woods video (“Unqualified Reservations on Moldbug”). I think I first heard about Yarvin around... Read More
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Semitism and Capitalism
The Merits and Inadequacies of Middleman Minority Theory in Explaining the Jews
•�September 18, 2020
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An interesting accompaniment to Nathan Cofnas’s 2018 attempted debunking of Kevin MacDonald’s work on Jews was the subtle resurfacing of Steven Pinker’s claim that a more plausible theory of the Jewish historical experience can be found in “Thomas Sowell’s convincing analysis of ‘middleman minorities’ such as the Jews, presented in his magisterial study of migration,... Read More
A Conversation with Kevin B. MacDonald
•�March 26, 2019
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Kevin B. MacDonald is an American psychologist. A retired professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), he is best known for writings that characterize Jewish behavior as a “group evolutionary strategy.” Grégoire Canlorbe: It is not uncommon to employ the locution “Judeo-Bolsheviks” to designate the 1917’s revolutionaries in Russia. Yet one seldom... Read More
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Derbyshire vs. MacDonald Revisited
•�May 30, 2018
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I don’t believe I’m exaggerating when I say that Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique is one of the most important books of our age. Despite this fact, it has garnered remarkably little attention in traditional spheres, particularly academic circles. Of course, the reasons for this are obvious — the book is critical of Jewish behavior,... Read More
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Reply to Nathan Cofnas
Debating THE CULTURE OF CRITIQUE
•�March 20, 2018
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After 20 years of silence from academics, Nathan Cofnas has written a comprehensive critical review of The Culture of Critique in an academic venue. I have been waiting for this to happen and was beginning to think it never would. Academics want their work to be taken seriously, and honest academics value the rough and... Read More
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What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About Jews
and •�March 15, 2018
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For many on the alt-right, every grievance is, at root, about Jews. Andrew Anglin, host of the most popular alt-right/neo-Nazi website, explains: “the only thing in our movement that really matters [is] anti-Semitism.” If only the Jews were gone, he argues, the white race, freed from bondage, would immediately overcome all of its problems. Where... Read More
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Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy
A Critical Analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s Theory
•�March 10, 2018
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MacDonald argues that a suite of genetic and cultural adaptations among Jews constitutes a “group evolutionary strategy.” Their supposed genetic adaptations include, most notably, high intelligence, conscientiousness, and ethnocentrism. According to this thesis, several major intellectual and political movements, such as Boasian anthropology, Freudian psychoanalysis, and multiculturalism, were consciously or unconsciously designed by Jews to... Read More
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In Search of Anti-Semitism
•�April 6, 2009
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Among those authors considered politically incorrect, and even those considered really politically incorrect, Kevin MacDonald holds a special place of honor or shame. A feature story in the May 9 (Los Angeles) Jewish Journal describes this small-boned, soft-spoken 64-year-old professor of psychology at California State University at Long Beach as “the professors anti-Semites love.” Alluding... Read More
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