A recent survey discussed by Eric Kaufmann here indicates that, in the West, whether one believes that it’s racist to want to restrict immigration in order to preserve one’s culture predicts whether one thinks immigration should be reduced. But I don’t…
During the controversy about James Damore’s infamous memo, which I briefly discussed here, I read a lot of nonsense from a lot of people, who clearly don’t understand much about this debate. If you have been following the debate about…
Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, who has been traveling around the US for years, in order to take pictures, talk to ordinary people and write about their life. He writes short reports about what he’s seen and the people…
I’ve been mostly offline and busy with other things lately, which is why things have been slow here. However, I just noticed that Nec Pluribus went past 100,000 views a week ago, which means it averaged about 500 views/day since…
Robert Kelly argues that North Korea’s nuclear program is almost certainly for deterrence, which I think is clearly right. Jonny Anomaly and Brian Boutwell published a good piece on Quillette where they warn against the danger of ignoring the possibility…
A software engineer at Google recently wrote a document that circulated internally before it was leaked, where he argues that instead of programs that promote gender/racial diversity by discriminating against white men, the company should try to promote ideological diversity…
According to a Pew Research Center survey, Democrats and people who lean Democrat in the US are way more intolerant of political disagreement than Republicans and people who lean Republican, at least when it comes to Trump. Interestingly, but not…
A week ago, the Washington Post broke another non-story on Trump’s imaginary collusion with Russia during the election, by revealing that Sessions had discussed “campaign-related matters” with Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the US, during the campaign. I wanted to write a…
The Ministry of the Interior in Germany released data about crime a few months ago. Ines Laufer had a look at them on her blog and noted they showed that immigrants in general and asylum seekers in particular were massively…
There are few books which completely change your way of thinking about a historical episode, especially one that has received as much attention as Word War 2, but Adam Tooze’s history of the Third Reich’s economy is one of them.…