January 3, 2020

The Decline and Fall of the Black American Church

In the old days, freed slaves were offered 40 acres and a mule if they voted Republican.  They never got their acres or mules, but the Republican Party held a lock on black voters for many decades. In the modern era, beginning with ...

May 31, 2019

A statue, but no halo, please

A kind of post-mortem glorification has applied to Dr. Martin Luther King. He rocketed from being --  in the minds of such people as J. Edgar Hoover -- a public enemy, to receiving a national monument on the Washington mall; the dedication ...

March 3, 2019

Not African at All

We are all familiar with the track record of African-Americans in voting for the Democratic Party. In many elections the ratio is comfortably above ninety percent. If the Episcopal Church was once described as "The Republican Party at prayer,...

February 22, 2019

Holy Leapin' Lizards, Batman! Jews from Another Planet!

The New York Times, which one assumes has some claim to representing mainstream culture, has recently published a review of a book by David Icke (famous for declaring the Queen of England a shape-shifting lizard)-- a tome in which Jews (or at least, ...

February 13, 2019

We're all gonna die! Right?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Joan of Arc of the modern left, has made some predictions:  Millennials, and Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we're like 'the world will end in 12 years if we don...

January 30, 2019

Trump: Our Lincoln?

In 1861, President Lincoln confronted a section of the body politic that refused to accept his election.  Instead of hunkering down and resorting to the ballot the next time around, they simply repudiated the entire electoral process and vo...

June 29, 2018

How even stupid people can overthrow governments

There's no secret to it.  As Mordred showed in The Once and Future King, all you need to dethrone an Arthur is to create dissension: libel the king, spread slander and false rumors, watch the competing factions fight – and th...

June 21, 2018

Jews, Blacks, and Destiny

In 2006, three Duke lacrosse players were falsely accused of rape. Their accuser had previously made a similar false charge of rape some years before and changed her new story about the lacrosse players multiple times. Before arrests were made, the e...

January 17, 2018

Duke University and the Heroic Emile Zola of America

Lynch mobs are not a pretty sight.  But what is a pretty sight, even a beautiful one, is someone standing by the side of the road trying to call halt. "As we came down the steps of the Palais de Justice, we found ourselves surroun...

November 27, 2017

Moses vindicated

Thirty-five hundred years ago, slaves toiling in the harsh mines of the Sinai scribbled some graffiti on the desert rocks.  One of them wrote: "Moses then provoked astonishment."  That, plus a lot of other inscriptions, deserves m...

September 29, 2017

This is how sports teams should sing their national anthems

In some places, they don't just stand. French athletes sing the Marseillaise before their game: Italian athletes sing their national anthem: Argentine athletes sing and cry during their national anthem: New Zealand rugby t...

September 28, 2017

How to Destroy a Nation

In The Possessed, Dostoyevsky has his character Shatov exclaim: If a great people does not believe that the truth is only to be found in itself alone (in itself alone and exclusively); if it does not believe that it alone is fit and destined to ...

September 26, 2017

The NFL and breaking the chains of conformity

Might the kerfuffle over NFL players kneeling for the National Anthem finally trigger the decline of the victimhood meme in the black community? The black community in America is one of the few examples of a culture that (in contrast to actual Afr...

September 1, 2017

When France lost her statues

The Nazis knew the value of history – and of controlling it. Therefore, when they occupied France, they set about destroying every vestige of the past that might preserve the seeds of liberty. Before the Occupation, Paris (and France) had...