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Jason Arday Found Dead After Fall From Grace

It appears that disgraced academic Jason Arday has committed suicide. He was found at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon. His family is blaming those behind Arday’s termination. “The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone.” Continue reading Jason Arday Found Dead After Fall From Grace

I’m Embarrassed for Other People, and Sometimes Stating the Obvious Feels Cruel, but Here Goes

It would be stating the obvious to say that Andrew Wilson destroyed Candace Owens today during the Great Debate, moderated by Patrick Bet-David. One was able to predict the outcome with one hundred percent metaphysical certitude. Owens may be able to talk rapidly and in complete sentences (her constant mispronunciation of basic words notwithstanding); however, Continue reading I’m Embarrassed for…

Strategic Arts: The Hot Sauce in Hillary’s Handbag and Hong’s Concession

Remember when Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rolled out the campaign theme of “joy”? Harris presented herself as the “joyful warrior.” Her hyena laugh was not cringeworthy (even though people cringed) but “joyful.” When she said crazy things (which was routine), it was just Harris being silly—which is why she giggled her way through the Continue reading Strategic Arts: The Hot Sauce in Hillary’s…

Twofer Thursday: Another Moronic Meme

Have you seen this meme yet? It is often framed with a question that goes something like this: “Is Elon Musk a robot?” No, Musk is a sympathetic human. He’s right; empathy is a fundamental weakness of Western civilization. Indeed, the concept (like “cultural relativism” and other like concepts) was invented to weaken Western civilization. I Continue reading Twofer Thursday: Another Moronic Meme

From Modernization Theory to Theories of Development and Underdevelopment: Disguising Transnationalism as Social Science

A question that rightly comes to the mind of a curious and objective observer is why one sees such profound disparities among people within a nation and between nations worldwide. Why are some people affluent while others are impoverished? Collectively at scale, why are some nations affluent, technologically advanced, and politically stable, while others remain Continue reading From Modernization…

Weaving America’s Destruction

In 1848, in a speech on free trade before the Democratic Association of Brussels, Karl Marx, the German philosopher who believed communism and democracy are the same thing, argued that the cheap commodities promised by free-market advocates were a trap designed not to benefit the working class but the capitalist bottom line. Did he oppose Continue reading Weaving America’s Destruction

Boys With Vaginas: Helen Webberley and the Deceit of Gender Identity

On the podcast Triggernometry, Helen Webberley, a former physician who trucks in child mutilation, said something quite revealing about gender identity doctrine. She said that gender identity is fixed at birth (or possibly conception, though “we don’t know,” she admitted). Whatever one’s body looks like, it’s the body of one’s gender identity, she explained, which Continue reading Boys With…

Manufacturing Anti-White Bigotry: The Elasticity of an Ancient Hatred

A self-sealing logic is an argument system that negates all outside criticism by treating any challenge or doubt as proof that the challenger is wrong. If the claim that Zionists control US foreign policy is challenged, for example, the challenger is part of the conspiracy to perpetrate Zionist control over US foreign policy. He is more than Continue reading Manufacturing Anti-White Bigotry: The…

The Lessons of Medina and the Rational Men of the West

In the seventh century AD, there was a Jewish group living in and around Medina called Banu Qurayza. The archangel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad while he was bathing and asked him why he rested while Allah’s enemies remained nearby. Gabriel directed Muhammad to take up arms against the Qurayza. Muhammad’s forces besieged Banu Qurayza until Continue reading The Lessons of Medina and the Rational Men…

There’s a Heterodox On the Island

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” — George Orwell In 2024, during a faculty meeting, one of the faculty members (now teaching somewhere else) deemed me a “heterodox.” Oh horror, I thought; I stand accused of heterodoxy. For context, this was during the petition drive organized by the Continue reading There’s a Heterodox On the Island