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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Can Richard Posner do arithmetic?
Slate has published a letter from Richard Posner criticising Scalia’s dissent on the Arizona immigration case. Posner is typically shallow in blathering uncritically about how immigration helps everyone. Things get more interesting when Posner takes aim at Scalia’s statement that … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, immigration, Richard Posner, Scalia, supreme court
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Darwin on Race, Species, and Sub-species
One of the main questions Darwin faces in the Descent of Man is whether man one species or several. He knows that different races are different: There is, however, no doubt that the various races, when carefully compared and measured, … Continue reading
Bill Maher on making women nod
Bill Maher is an ass, but he is sometimes more perceptive than the media orthodoxy, and is independent enough to push just an inch out of the PC box, as in these clips.
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In Search of the Rational Anti-Racist, part 6: Charles Darwin
In establishing the common descent of man, Charles Darwin put to rest any notion of discrete and separately created races of man. This endears him to anti-racists, and it’s even been asserted that by establishing common descent Darwin discredited any … Continue reading
Cambridge academic under fire for an excess of good sense
Mirabile dictu! A sensible man at Cambridge. A Cambridge University academic came under pressure to resign last night after students protested that he operates a website that features Nazi imagery, describes female immigrants as “exotic fruit” and claims that black … Continue reading
Athenians on Marriage
Three passages on marriage from fourth century B.C. Athens. One anonymous: Poor men! We sold away our freedom of speech and our comfort and lead the life of slaves with our wives. We’re not free. We can’t say we don’t … Continue reading
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1. Counter-Currents has an article critical of game. Nothing new, but there’s some worthwhile discussion in the comments. Worth a read for those interested in intersection between manosphere and alt-right. 2. The New York Times has a piece on the … Continue reading
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Jefferson’s Extended Remarks on Race
Here is the most extensive passage on race from Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. I quoted part of it in my last post; here is the full context. Jefferson is discussing the laws, and in particular the prospect … Continue reading
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In Search of the Rational Anti-Racist, part 5: Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. These words have been used … Continue reading
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Tagged civics, colonization, race, segregation, Thomas Jefferson, US history
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Hegel on the Negro, part 2
Hegel next takes up slavery. He is fundamentally opposed to slavery, but holds that it has an important role to play in historical development. It is also characteristic of the Negro: Another characteristic fact in reference to the Negroes is … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Hegel, philosophy of history, philosophy of race, political philosophy, slavery
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