Category Archives: Original Research

The persistence of “high trust” in Europe west of the Hajnal Line and the future of Western uniqueness in the 21st century


What is the West? What is the source of Western success? How are Western people different from others (“the Rest”)? What is unique about the West? Many volumes can be written on these questions. A large amount, however, is captured … Continue reading

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The British political-jailbreak attempt of 2024: Reflections on the attempt to destroy the Conservative Party


[4,000 words] The British people are nearing a revolutionary mood, or so it seems. Such a mood they expressed, this year, on the day associated with the American Revolution: the Fourth of July. In the British general election of July … Continue reading

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A study of White ethnic-dispossession and ‘replacement’: Maryland’s Prince George’s County, 1970s to 1990s


Last week, a Steve Sailer commenter named Colin Wright recalled a scene from his life, some years ago, in which he had helped a friend in Washington, D.C., move house: “[Every] night, dog-tired after putting in our twelve-fourteen hours, we’d … Continue reading

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Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston, believes “every human-being has the legal right to come to the United States”: Michelle Wu as a biographical-ideological study of the U.S. elite in the 2020s


A woman by the name of “Michelle Wu” is, for some reason, the mayor of the City of Boston. Michelle Wu’s ideas on what America “is” and what America is “for” are worth some analysis and commentary, which is what … Continue reading

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George Gilder’s essay “Sexual Suicide” (1973), a landmark attack on feminism and warning for the future, revisited and reappraised at its 50-year mark


In July 1973, an explosive anti-feminist, anti-sexual-revolution essay titled “Sexual Suicide” appeared on the scene. Viewed from fifty years later, “Sexual Suicide” is incisive and prescient in all kinds of ways. “Sexual Suicide” first appeared fifty years ago this week … Continue reading

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A study on America’s demographic-national crisis — Early-2020s birth-data by race; and developments in the White birth-share in the USA, 1920s to 2020s


The USA’s ongoing demographic-national crisis: slow but steadily moving, largely downplayed by the system that oversees and manages it, and therefore more “beneath the waves of public-consciousness” than not. What do we call a “crisis” that is seldom talked about … Continue reading

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On the “Oregon Shakespeare Festival” (OSF) board’s turn towards Wokeness, and the role of Asians in the USA


(3800 words) “Our motto, almost from the beginning, has been: ‘What’s past is prologue’.” — Jerry Turner, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1991 _____________ Let us consider the role of Asians in the USA. To toss in a … Continue reading

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The USA’s “Guiding Maxim on Immigration”: analysis of and commentary on a discussion between Nicolas Eberstadt, John Cochrane, H. R. McMaster, and Niall Ferguson


(2500 words) A Hoover Institution talk of March 13th, 2023 (link), about demographic decline, contains an exchange about immigration to the USA that is such a good encapsulation of Regime ideology (and mantras) that it is worth reproducing here in … Continue reading

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A tale of two Garlands: A study of U.S. political development through the contrast of two U.S. attorneys general, 1880s vs. 2020s


The editor-in-chief of the political blog Peak Stupidity issued a missive in late March 2023 against one of the USA’s top government officials, Attorney General Merrick Garland (“The Potomac Regime’s Lavrentiy Beria,” March 25, 2023). This man, Merrick Garland, is … Continue reading

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Scenes from the anti-war rally in Washington (Feb. 19, 2023)


“A motley, disparate collection of political-forces which, at a glance, share very little in common.” That is the gist of one of the notes I jotted down while observing the scene during the recent anti-war rally in Washington, held Sunday, … Continue reading

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Why does Gregory Cochran support the Ukraine war?


After the coordinated bombings against the Nordstream gas pipelines by unknown actors in late September 2022, the commentator, blogger, and physicist-anthropologist Dr. Greg Cochran began promoting a theory on what happened and what it means. There were three stated or … Continue reading

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