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The Dissident Review
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Our mission is to publish controversial, banned, and subversive historical research. Anti-Woke. Submit your writing today on our website.
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Mar 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

Our newest book is now available for preorder on the Dissident Review website.

"Where Black Rules White: Hayti" by Hesketh Prichard is an 1899-1900 travelogue of Haiti, by a famed English cricketer & explorer.

It puts much of today's Haitian crisis in context. Image At the turn of the century, Haiti was practically unknown to much of the Western world. Even other Caribbean nations did not have extensive contact.

Prichard describes all of the inner workings of the country, providing valuable historical context for Haiti's problems today. Image
Feb 27, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:

Our newest book is now live:

“The White Indians of Darien” by Richard O. Marsh

This is a true story of exploration, discovery, and ultimately revolution in the jungles of Panama. Image Marsh describes it:

“The story of the discovery of an unknown valley in the interior of Panama, of the finding of mysterious white Indians, and of a war in the bush led by a white man against the soldiers of the Republic of Panama”

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Sep 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Over a single 18-month period in the 70s, over 2,500 bombings occurred on US soil — mostly by leftist terrorist groups.

We don’t hear much about that today. Many of the terrorists were pardoned, charges dropped, etc. Now they’re in academia.

Why? Even TIME addresses the bombings with a detached sense of “meh.”

The terrorists were “bell-bottomed codas to the 1960s,” disaffected “once-students.”

There was a leftist insurgency in this country. And it succeeded.
time.com/4501670/bombin…
Jul 24, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
History is far less sober than we tend to believe.

From sailors to statesmen, alcohol has filled a social role far beyond its modern niche.

1/ https://t.co/4icSC0GHT8
Image In “Drunk: How We Sipped, Stumbled, and Danced Our Way to Civilization”, Edward Slingerland proposes that alcohol was incredibly important in early human history — for more than just stress relief.

He posits that alcohol was a powerful way to unite neighboring cultures. Image
Jun 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
[ANNOUNCEMENTS]

We’ve posted a lot of updates in the past few days, so this thread will keep you in the loop.

Recent releases, future endeavors, & victories📚

1/ Image 1. We are proud to announce the release of The Dissident Review Volume II.

Titled “Frontiers”, this edition captures the spirit of the explorer, the pioneer, and the conqueror in 11 outstanding articles.

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Jun 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Most social science research today works like this

An individual or committee decides on an Approved Conclusion, which is then legitimized by “research” and “peer review”

It’s not just dishonest scholarship. It’s propaganda. While this is very strong in faux-empirical “sciences” like sociology, it also happens in history

You get something like “A Survey of Sexuality in Greek Literature”, allegedly neutral

But of course the conclusions are modern LGBT/feminism, made unquestionable by “PEER REVIEW!!”
May 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In history education, there is much talk of the "lived experience" of historical people, usually for some political point.

But more importantly, almost nobody can understand the visceral experience of people who simply existed differently.

1/ Image The effect of metabolic health on one's subjective experience is difficult to quantify, but it is certainly a major factor

Higher metabolism = faster thinking, more energy, different hormonal balance

All of this adds up to a drastically different "lived experience"
Apr 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The demystification of history, the endless need to make it banal and lifeless, has done irreparable damage to modern thought Image Important figures are stripped of their beauty and strength, reduced to LinkedIn bios (or even fictional characters)

Key moments lose their symbolism and weight

The underlying message is “everything has always been lame, and you shouldn’t aspire to anything higher” Image
Mar 31, 2023 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
What happened to the Ming Dynasy's Navy?

Once the most formidable fleet in the world, boasting over 3,500 vessels, the Chinese Navy self-immolated in the late 15th century - just as Europeans were beginning to send expeditions around the world.

Why?

1/ Image Again and again, Chinese history is a story of technological firsts, followed by a rapid abandonment or stagnation of this technology - for reasons often incomprehensible to Westerners.

The Imperial Chinese navy is one of these stories, and a cautionary tale to the West today. Image
Mar 30, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
As an example of this point re: “in media”, let’s look at the quality of primary vs. secondary sources on Amazon

1/ A common, affordable print edition of The History of the Peloponnesian War

VS

A recent commentary on Thucydides, “made approachable for today’s readers”

Primary source is a terrible, low-quality scan w/ no illustrations & missing parts

Secondary is high-quality, well-designed
Mar 28, 2023 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
In academia, K-12 education, and even in media, there’s been a huge push away from studying primary sources.

Yet direct interaction with historical texts has been the foundation of a classical education for centuries.

Why are we stopping now?

1/ In education, this shift is primarily driven by lowering standards.

“Students may not fully understand Homer or Shakespeare,” educators say…

Opting instead to study them through “modernisations” or analyses.
Mar 25, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Teddy Roosevelt on Richard Harding Davis:

"He was as good an American as ever lived, and his heart flamed against cruelty and injustice."

"His writings form a textbook of Americanism which all our people would do well to read at the present time."

1/ Image Richard Harding Davis was the top American war correspondent at the turn of the 20th century.

He covered the Spanish-American War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Boer War, WWI, and more.

He rode with the Rough Riders at Guasimas, and was even offered a captaincy by Roosevelt. Image
Jan 30, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Medieval Architecture Thread

The art of the so-called “Dark Ages”

[1/20] Image Gothic & Romanesque castles, towns & churches

Some of these are renovated or constructed after the Middle Ages, but they’re all examples of medieval-style architecture. Image
Dec 9, 2022 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
ON VITALITY IN HISTORY

The modern world has damaged our view of history, reducing it to the status of “the masses”

Sanitized worship of The Average.

[THREAD] Consider this anecdote, to put the life of Alcibiades of Athens in context:

(From Bronze Age Mindset)
Dec 7, 2022 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
The best example of this point is the Siege of Acre in 1291.

200,000 Mamluks surrounded the city, defended by a mere 1,000 knights and 14,000 infantrymen.

They eventually lost the city, but in one of the greatest last stands of all time.

[THREAD] It was a battle of both land and sea engagements, with major artillery used by both sides;

A battle of nighttime commando raids and secret passages;

A battle of negotiations and backstabbing;

And ultimately, a brutal last stand.
Nov 10, 2022 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL & THE FALL OF ACADEMIA

“Social justice”, Marxism, radical feminism, and the like are not just a recent phenomenon.

The worst of 2022 discourse began with a few 20th-century academics.

1/ The Frankfurt School began as the Institute for Social Research, founded in Germany in 1923.

This was the first and foremost Marxist academic organization in Germany.
Oct 22, 2022 • 33 tweets • 14 min read
THE MYTH OF THE DARK AGES

A thread on Christianity, Islam, and medieval European culture & technology.

1/ Of all the grand historical narratives that have recently entered the political realm, the myth of medieval European “backwardness” and concurrent Islamic “progress” is perhaps the most egregious.
Sep 29, 2022 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
HISTORIANS & FEAR OF GREATNESS

A thread on some problems in modern historical thought, and a solution. Image Consider the state of an average Barnes & Noble history section.

It’s dismal.

Between endless copy-paste WWII books and 100 copies of “The 1619 Project”, there’s barely anything readable. Image
Sep 26, 2022 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
Wanted to expand on this thread.

Traditional publishing may be hostile to dissidents, but we’re in the middle of a publishing revolution.

Indie and self-publishing are the future.

This thread will highlight some of those dissident voices and publishers. 1. BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERS

(Disclaimer: this list is by no means exhaustive)

Some of the bigger names in non-mainstream publishing include @MysteryGrove for reprinted classics, @PassagePress for general dissident writing, and @BaenBooks for sci-fi.
Sep 21, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Why is the publishing industry so broken, almost across the board?

A few reasons: 1. POLITICS

This is the elephant in the room in the publishing industry.

Everything is extremely liberal, with the exception of neocon political books.

But books about politics are the only ones allowed a right-wing lens; reactionary fiction or history never makes it to print.
Sep 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“History isn’t political”

“History isn’t important”

Clearly the Left thinks it is.

They spend millions to produce blatant lies which serve their goals. Image Like the Bolsheviks in 1917, they tear down history and replace it with ideology.

They alter and rewrite history until their narrative is the only thing remaining.

Their goals depend on this revision. ImageImage