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Jul 28 4 tweets 3 min read
Evan Barker’s disillusioned Democrat memoir (out today) has some priceless firsthand observations of the modern Left:

“Almost all Democratic operatives, regardless of their type, parroted the same lines to each other. It was common for us to call Republicans racist almost daily, convincing each other that the ‘alt-right’ was ‘absolutely’ terrifying, a force that wanted to literally murder us.”Image The woman who wrote these emails disparaging Barker as an “entitled white woman” is the child of immigrants from Bangladesh:

“This is not the first time an entitled white woman has spoken to me disrespectfully and I supposed it will not be the last… Like I'm some angry brown woman and she has done nothing wrong. But of course, you don't see that. Look, I highly suggest that both of you take diversity, equity and inclusion training.”Image
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Jul 14 4 tweets 3 min read
“An American Dilemma” is a perfect example of foundation-led social science because Myrdal splashed around so much money to other scholars for “research.”

“When the generosity of the Carnegie Corporation became known… black academics were demanding salaries of $10,000 or more.” Image
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Naturally, giving away all that money guaranteed good reviews from the relevant experts.

“As his staff member and confidant Guy Johnson put it, ‘If you hadn't involved all these people and spent all this money … the reception [of the book] might not have been as enthusiastic.’” Image
Jul 9 5 tweets 3 min read
How do Russians think about their demographic crisis? This author sat in on a lecture in a demography class at a provincial university and got the standard history. The lesson starts with “the Russian Cross,” the graph showing the moment in 1991 when deaths outpaced births. Image
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“Already in the 1970s and especially the early 1980s, Soviet demographers began to be concerned with the shrinking population… To prevent the decline, the Soviet state introduced a series of ‘paid motherhood’ policies.” These policies had some success in halting the decline. Image
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Jul 8 4 tweets 3 min read
Great Feminization, Soviet-style: In 1968, demographer Boris Urlanis published a bombshell article, “Save the Men!,” arguing that men were the second sex with higher mortality rates. Since nearly 80% of Soviet doctors were female, he said, it was up to women to save the men. Image
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Women were 36 percent of Soviet professionals in 1940, 59 percent in 1980. Universities became majority female in 1976. Technical schools were 57 percent women. “In 1978, 26 percent of Leningrad brides said yes to less-educated grooms; two decades ago only 5 percent did.” Image
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Jul 7 4 tweets 2 min read
Soviet law is hilarious. A factory manager was imprisoned by the NKVD as a “Trotskyist” and sentenced to a labor camp, but then Yezhov fell and he was one of the political prisoners released. He got his job back—and sued for back pay for the months he was in prison. Successfully. Image
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This poor widow with a young daughter deserves legal relief from the bad housemate who is trying to get the house to himself by driving them out with obnoxious behavior, but her husband was an officer in the White Army so the Soviet court will do nothing for her. Image
Apr 13 5 tweets 3 min read
Good piece with a simple thesis: The girlboss lifestyle would not exist if it were not massively subsidized.

Cheap immigrant labor to do their cooking, cleaning, and child care; student loans and the whole higher ed sector; email jobs that don’t need to exist; etc. It’s really very simple. There are two claims here:

1. For a long time, America didn’t have a servant class. Its absence helped to define our unique postwar social order.

Mass immigration changed that. Now we do have a (racially distinct) servant class.

Bad, IMHO.
Mar 28 5 tweets 2 min read
The thing about decolonization is, every colony in Africa was unique: the white population was small or large, transient or settled; were schools built; was native labor exploited; etc.

Britain tailored independence plans to each specific case—yet the result was always the same. All the complexities that were pondered in the run-up to independence—the moral claims of various parties, the colony’s unique history, the economic needs of the future state—collapsed before the simple Fanonist logic of white man bad.

Don’t overthink it, is what I’m saying.
Mar 26 5 tweets 3 min read
“Third Worldism” is a good term and I use it myself, but I prefer other names like “race communism” for two reasons.

1. Its enemy is not just the West but white people explicitly.

2. “Third Worldism” sounds foreign and it’s not. It’s the ideology of the American empire. The American deep state was the best friend decolonization ever had. The Cold War in Africa was all about us outbidding the Soviets by being more pro-liberation than they were. Image
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Mar 22 5 tweets 3 min read
It’s an interesting question: Is anti-racism/critical race theory an American import? Both sides have good arguments but on balance I say yes. America invented this model and then spread it abroad. Obviously “anti-racism” here doesn’t mean just the idea that racism is bad. It means the specific model of NGOs that (1) use anti-discrimination measures for lawfare; (2) lobby for infinity migrants; and (3) keep watchlists of “far-right” groups that spread “hate,” i.e. dissent from the above, and work with the deep state and other establishment organizations to weaponize those lists.Image
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Mar 17 5 tweets 2 min read
The fact that the Penn Station puncher had no previous arrests makes the story more disturbing. He wasn’t a vagrant, just a normal guy who punched a stranger for bumping into him.

“‘Bruh I had a f—ing day … So the n***a I punched died bruh,’ Tate wrote on Instagram Sunday.” A lady once bumped into my toddler getting off the train. I said, hey, watch it, and she went into a full-on meltdown (“Bitch you don’t know who you’re messing with”), following us around the station for ten minutes shouting. She harassed us on three subsequent occasions at the same stop.

Months later, she even pulled over her car when we were walking down the street in a different neighborhood, shouting at me and my children: “I know where you live now, you better watch out.” She was blocking traffic and other cars were honking, but she kept yelling.

So I have a deranged stalker and my son is afraid of “the bad lady,” all because I told this woman to please not step on my child.

It wasn’t some teen delinquent, either. She was a middle-aged lady with an office job. Her place of employment was on the name badge around her neck.

Public transit is stressful enough without having to worry that you might inadvertently “disrespect” the wrong person.
Mar 10 6 tweets 2 min read
The ruling ideology is just race communism. Taking stuff from the bad class and giving it to the good class is its central purpose as much as it was for the Soviets. Who gets board seats, jobs, college spots, loans, housing—it’s all about the allocation of resources by race. “Wokeness” is a bad name for it because it sounds frivolous. It makes you think of diversity seminars and college professors. “Race communism” sounds like what it is: your telecommunications merger won’t be approved unless you give sufficient hand-outs to legally favored races. Image
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Feb 20 6 tweets 3 min read
Interesting New York Times Magazine article on white flight from 1971 by a journalist who grew up in a Slovak neighborhood of Cleveland in the early 1950s and returned after Carl Stokes was elected the city’s first black mayor in 1967. nytimes.com/1971/01/24/arc…Image “The old ladies of the church were getting beaten and robbed on their way to early mass, so we stopped those… We had a lot of trouble with school children being beaten... I guess you heard about the eighth‐grade girl who was raped by four boys from Audubon.” Image
Feb 3 5 tweets 3 min read
Some people think Asian education culture just means studying hard. These books describe what it is in practice. White parents flee these schools because it’s not what they want for their kids—that’s an observation, not a value judgement. I think we should try to understand why. Image
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Asians outnumber whites at Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and many other schools. The last ethnic succession in higher ed on this scale was in the 1960s. The effects then were massive. It basically created “The Sixties.” We should expect changes of similar magnitude this time.
Feb 1 5 tweets 3 min read
“In certain international markets, bad actors have long made concerted efforts to access and share test content.” As Americans get more exposed to Asian cultures of education, we are slowly learning about their downsides. So far we have been slow to adapt. nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/… As I wrote in Compact: “Meritocracy has within it certain forces that, unchecked, can turn into death spirals. The gaokao is China’s solution to those forces. As our meritocracy comes to resemble Asia’s, we will have to come up with a solution of our own.” compactmag.com/article/how-as…
Dec 30, 2025 4 tweets 3 min read
“For most outsiders, a principal and immediately apparent characteristic of Somalis, often strongly at variance with external circumstance, was their ‘inordinate pride and contempt for other nations.’ In their own minds, Somalis were always aristocrats among savages: Arabs in a continent of inferior Blacks;
Muslims in a continent of unbelief and confusion; herdsmen encompassed by diggers of mud; sometimes conquerors but never conquered…. Consider the opinion of one British soldier, a Commanding Officer of the Somaliland Camel Corps (SCC), with many years of experience, writing in 1944: The ‘Somali is convinced that he is entirely different from and vastly superior to any East African.’”Image
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“The Protectorate Administration—such as it was—attempted nothing in the way of development and the British Somalis wanted none… Somaliland was firmly established in official minds as a ‘Type Four Dependency’: nothing was expected or possible here.” Image
Oct 21, 2025 4 tweets 3 min read
Tense scenes in Ireland, good time to read @EoinLenihan’s book, which, coincidentally, came out just last week. Image Irish authorities will go to great lengths to stop anyone “politicizing” horrific crimes by immigrants. In 2023, the boyfriend of murder victim Ashling Murphy made an impact statement in court that was initially reported but later censored from RTÉ press coverage of the trial. The section that was deleted from news stories said: “It just sickens me to the core that someone can come to this country, be fully supported in terms of social housing, social welfare, and free medical care for over 10 years—never hold down a legitimate job, and never once contribute to society in any way shape or form.”Image
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Oct 5, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
Amazing. Most speeches from the last NatCon have a few dozen views. “The Great Feminization” is now approaching 100,000. I’m truly grateful to see this important message spreading. A few additional thoughts: 1. Remember how insane everything got in 2020? That is just a small preview of how things will be when women come to dominate our institutions. Back in the 1970s, a lot of people thought introducing women into institutions wouldn’t change them, or might make them slightly softer but otherwise the same. That prediction has been proven false. Look at how much the legal profession, journalism, medicine, and journalism have changed now that women are the majority of the younger cohorts. Imagine how much more they’ll change as the remaining men age out.
Sep 27, 2025 7 tweets 4 min read
According to Wikipedia, the 1958 “Kissing Case” in Monroe, NC, involved two black boys, aged 9 and 7, who were thrown in prison after a white girl innocently kissed them during a playground game. Elsewhere Wikipedia states they were “convicted of rape.” Image
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This is how Gov. Luther Hodges of North Carolina describes the incident in his memoir. His three main points:

- The boys were not criminally prosecuted. They were sent to reform school due to their having an unsuitable home environment, in the opinion of the juvenile judge.

- The kissing incident was merely the latest offense in an escalating pattern of delinquency, including petty theft.

- Far from innocent play, the older boy had reportedly cornered the girl and not let her go until she agreed to kiss him.Image
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Sep 9, 2025 7 tweets 4 min read
Ben Burns made his career in black journalism, usually as the only white editor in the newsroom. He single-handedly put together the first issue of Ebony in his living room. A thread from his memoir, “Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism”: Image Bribery was common at the Chicago Defender—five dollars clipped to a news release, brand new cars for reporters. Burns thought it was dishonest, but no one else had a problem with it. “The practice became established and was accepted by most of the black community. I had no choice but to ignore and pretend I knew little about what I viewed as a kind of bribery.”Image
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Aug 24, 2025 6 tweets 3 min read
A female scholar interviewed a bunch of senior citizens in Greensboro, NC, about their memories of integration and white flight. Their testimony is interesting, even if the author adds on a lot of nonsense about their “white privilege” and “victimhood narratives.” Image Most interviewees had children in school when busing came in. “Our son quit takin’ his lunch because they would steal his lunch or his lunch money, so he just didn't eat.” “When my daughter went there . . . she was afraid to go to the bathroom, to the point that we had to take her to a urologist.” “He would have our son get down and lick his shoes and he would say, ‘Your people have slaved my people, now I'm gonna slave you.’”Image
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Aug 19, 2025 4 tweets 5 min read
Do magazines even need to exist anymore? A tweet gets more reach than an essay, faster, with less effort. 

Yes, they do. Forget magazines in the abstract, make it concrete. Here are ten pieces we published at TAC that show the value of medium. These could not have been tweets. 1. The definitive piece on "long Covid" by a working neurologist. theamericanconservative.com/what-long-covi…

2. The definitive debunking of the Canadian mass graves hoax. theamericanconservative.com/billy-remember…

3. The definitive debunking of "King Leopold's Ghost" (plus Hochschild's response and Gilley's reply). theamericanconservative.com/king-hochschil…

4. A brave piece arguing that Harvey Weinstein was wrongly convicted. theamericanconservative.com/the-meaning-of…

5. "A Murder in CHAZ," on the death of a teenager in Seattle's Summer of Love, one of the many murders that can be laid at BLM’s door. theamericanconservative.com/a-murder-in-ch…

6. A reported piece on Ukraine's Hungarian minority, showing that the Zelensky government has problems with other ethnic groups, not just Russians. theamericanconservative.com/can-ukrainian-…

7. William Wolfe on the fight within the Southern Baptist Convention over female pastors. theamericanconservative.com/battle-on-bour…

8. The definitive piece on John Silber, governor of Massachusetts and controversial university president (you might think Silber is obscure but this piece has immense historical value and is also a great read). theamericanconservative.com/the-autocrat-o…

And two brilliant pieces on globalization, Wall Street, and the economy:

9. The decline of NASCAR (I heard this piece was circulated at their HQ). theamericanconservative.com/the-decline-an…

10. “Where in the Globalized Economy Is Carmen Sandiego? The fall of Brøderbund Software and its edutainment star.” theamericanconservative.com/where-in-the-g…