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Mar 25 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The 70s were insane. It's hard to even wrap my head around what it must have been like to grow up in the 1910s and live to see what America became Image
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Dec 25, 2025
In fin de siècle France, there was a retreat to metaphysics by leftists in the face of the ruthless empiricism of Vacher de Lapouge Image
Ferdinand Brunetière was the precursor to modern postliberals, retreating to religion out of a fear of Nature Image
Lapougue criticized the “freethinkers” who used Darwinism to attack the church, but who dodged challenges by science on their precious egalitarianism Image
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Nov 13, 2025
The British Governor of Jerusalem from 1917-1926 described how even those sympathetic to Jews were viciously attacked and subject to cancellation campaigns if they deviated even slightly from Zionist demands. They ran the same advertisement boycotts that the ADL does now Image
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The Zionist Congress denounced the speech within 2 months Image
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The author was reassigned in 1926, and by the time he revisited in 1931, the British Administration was convinced that "in any future crisis, while the Arabs might be their enemies, the Jews certainly would be." Image
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Nov 12, 2025
Non-linear ethnic niches will be one of the most important concepts to understand in an increasingly diverse society.

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Nov 11, 2025
Four myths about the 60s riots:

1. Only a tiny fraction of blacks participated
2. The vast majority of blacks disapproved
3. Blacks perceived it as a meaningless event
4. Blacks expected white retaliation Image
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The US-AUS alliance in WWII and the Cold War was based on a shared Anglo-Saxon race. The Australian PM spoke to Congress in 1950, where he said “Americans are not foreigners in Australia.”

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Sep 20, 2025
Given the discussion of amnesty for illegal farm workers in the past few months, I think it's worth revisiting this article from a 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs.

TL;DR: there is nothing more permanent than temporary workers.

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