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Heather MacDonald’s new book, a must-read.

On most *whites on the Right* not wanting to hear hate facts, either:

“When I speak on policing, I have been told repeatedly by white listeners that hearing the data on disproportionate black crime makes them ‘uncomfortable.’” ImageImage
This is so true, BTW. You get this IRL, with GrillCon relatives etc. They’re pretty sound, they’ll joke about “fiery but mostly peaceful” and what not, but if you go into FBI stats and 60/13 it’s like pouring salt on a snail. ‘Whoa man, I don’t know about all that...’
Translation: After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Just let me grill in my quiet corner of suburbia, I’ve got mine, and I’ll be gone in 20 years anyway. Let me live in blissful ignorance, please. Best of luck to you younger guys, sucks to be ya’ll.
‘Don’t know about’ what dude? This is a .gov website from Eric Holder’s DoJ lol...

‘Arrrgggh I know man, but shit...just let me grill.’

This is basically the GOP base.
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Apr 23
It’s especially funny with Prokofiev because like many great artists he had an almost Asperger’s level unawareness of the world beyond his art. When he left Russia for a tour of the US in early 1918 he was surprised to find that he would have to petition the Bolsheviks for
permission, and that his leaving the country would be seen as a political act, a little thing called the Russian Revolution having started a few months previously, and that his journey to America would have to involve taking the Trans-Siberian to Vladivostok for a passage across
the Pacific, as a minor geopolitical tremor called the Great War meant he couldn’t just nip down to Kronstadt and catch a liner to New York. So I’m not sure he was an avid reader of the underground Ukrainian nationalist press in the 1910s and 20s lol
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Apr 23
Pretty good NYTs essay on micro-plastics. I thought he’d be able to get through it without the obligatory counter-signal against the Evil Right; sure enough..

Joe Rogan cares about this but he’s a “meathead” purveyor of “masculinity.” [Insert very insightful Joe Rogan quote] ImageImage
As with macro-level environmentalism, RWers looking to build bridges to the Left are looking for love in all the wrong places. He cares about the issue, but he spends the second half of the essay apologizing for caring about an issue that Bad People also care about. When they
have to choose, they will *always* choose the path of remaining Party members in good standing. Girondins, Social-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, etc etc. They will *never* have your back.
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Apr 22
Rather bland extract from a new book on Tocqueville’s travels in Algeria.

Abdelkader, hero of Algerian resistance to France in the 1830s-40s, was one of the great men of his era, widely admired. There is an Elkader, Iowa, named after him. ImageImage


Have often thought the widespread Western admiration for Emir Abdelkader and Imam Shamil, hero of Dagestani resistance to Russian conquest, is one of many small but telling points against Edward Said’s ahistorical nonsense. Both men were rightly
admired, even by their enemies, and that admiration was inseparable from the Western sense of their respective deep commitments to their Muslim faith and their people. But it was the sort of strong admiration across the civilizational battle-lines that’s impossible for Current
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Mar 30
BTW none of this represents a contradiction RE the American Empire, which in many ways had a banner 2022. Think Brezhnev’s USSR; all the jokes about ‘Upper Volta with ICBMs’ were true; but if Gorbachev hadn’t been such a pussy, there’s no reason it wouldn’t still exist today.
Ultimately This Sort of Thing *does* represent a threat to the American Empire—IMO, it’s what Bluecheck IR types really mean when they moan about long term ‘domestic challenges’ to ‘America’s global leadership’ or whatever, though they have to cloak it in concern-trolling
about GOP fascism or SCOTUS abortion rulings—but the USSR’s second half shows that global superpower status can be maintained for quite a long time by powers with corroding, no-longer-First World metropoles.
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Mar 30
“New Orleans now has the eighth highest murder rate in the world..New Orleans is more dangerous than any city in Africa.”

Excellent on the post-2020 decline of American cities.

Reminder that George Floyd is the most important man of the 2020s, Putin a distant second.
“To put this in another context: life expectancy in Cuba and Thailand is higher than life expectancy in the USA, and if trends persist, life expectancy in America will soon be overtaken by Vietnam.”
He didn’t at all cherry pick the worst cases—Baltimore, SF, Chicago—and it’s a sharper piece for it. This, on Denver, is bang on. Even if crime isn’t Chiraq/NO levels, the post-COVID mauling of physical office life and small business risks a Detroit death spiral.
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Mar 29
Meant to say more about Nirad Chaudhuri. Will limit it to highly recommending ‘Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.’ NYRB has a nice edition; really wish they’d bring out ‘Thy Hand, Great Anarch!’, his second volume of autobiography/history. Worth tracking down second-hand.
Wolpert was great at big, meat & three veg cradle to grave 1-volume scholarly biographies of great statesmen, which I love and think are an undervalued today. His Nehru, Jinnah, and Z.A. Bhutto bios are good.

Tidrick’s Gandhi bio is great in that it avoids the sentimentality
of so much writing about Gandhi. She treats him like the living, often deeply weird (and, IMO, often very silly and even sinister) man-of-his-time that he was.
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