Benjamin Kidd was a drunk paddy mick and civil service brat who made a good name for himself in the 1890s with a book called Social Evolution (1894). He had Darwin, he had Weismann, he had a grand unified theory of Western social development (or a pretense of one in the making). He was, the closest comparison I can think of, the Malcolm Gladwell of his day. Consulted by such figures as Joseph Chamberlain, Arthur Balfour, and Alfred Milner, read by many others including Theodore Roosevelt ("Socia

Since it is evidently the mission of Thermidor to fight ceaseless war on the 'dad' mentality, it is only right to look at the fullest, most complete expression of this cast of mind so far in the Trump era: Rod Dreher’s ‘Benedict Option’. Over the last five years, Dreher has perpetually used blog and book to urge Christians to admit defeat in the culture wars for America’s soul. Instead, he wants them to imitate St Benedict of Nursia, the father of Catholic monasticism, by turning their backs on

The worst effect of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania grand jury report is that it will allow Americans to delude themselves into thinking they care about child abuse. Any attempt to understand the current crisis in the American Church has to begin with this fact in mind: The West is rapidly heading towards the normalization of all sexual perversions, including pedophilia, and has already committed itself to a status quo that fosters the widespread physical and sexual abuse of children. Take, for example

In July 2018, Northrop Grumman announced that it would investigate an employee for allegedly attending a political rally across the country a year ago. The rally was small with fewer attendees that a minor league baseball game. Like all major corporations, they hate people who hate people and take it seriously that an employee may have attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. A year on, this political sin casts a long shadow. Much ink was wasted on what happened in Charlottesville,

One of the more maddening aspects of the current left-right battles online and in the flesh is the over-reliance on outdated terms. The American Left, when it is not screeching incoherently, loves to label their enemies as "Nazis," "Fascists," etc. On the American Right, a super-retarded cohort of scribblers keep saying that it is the American Left that are the "real Nazis" and the "real Fascists." The leader of this pack is the historically illiterate Dinesh D'Souza, who, in one tweet, managed

In case it’s not obvious to the reactionaries and right-wingers who make up the primary audience of Thermidor, religious conversion has become a major phenomenon, at least in our subculture. You have Catholic monks and theologians writing spirituality blog posts for PUA websites. You have “weird Catholic twitter” and the “Orthosphere.” You have “thot patrols” reminiscent of the 5th-century parabalani. If you’re trying to be illiberal but you’re not Christian, this climate suggests, GTFO. The vas

Durant Drake (1878-1933) was one of many minor American pragmatists who is remembered only in specialized bibliographies, being obscure to an extent that there is an article about him on the French Wikipedia, but not in that of his native tongue. I don’t know why. In any event, his punditry is as interesting a time capsule as any, in America faces the future (1922). The book’s stated goal is described: “Many books have been written to explain to foreign peoples what we are; such books naturally

I’ll try to keep this one short and sour. It looks like the New York Times went and hired themselves a good ole’ fashioned racist. Well, I guess you cannot call Sarah Jeong a racist because she ain’t a pale Neanderthal. Nope, Sarah is an Asian woman who writes about tech, which essentially means that she is off-limits. This despite her history of spewing anti-white invective on Twitter. Here are some samples : “Dumbass white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing o

Download RSS On June 8th, 1967, the USS Liberty was attacked and nearly sunk by Israeli warplanes. The event was quickly covered up, but the survivors of the vessel and the 34 dead American sailors shall not be forgotten. — References — – Dead in the Water, BBC (2002) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOH1XMAwZA – Remembering the U.S.S. Liberty, Giraldi (2017) – http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/remembering-the-u-s-s-liberty-2/ – New revelations in attack on American spy ship – Chicago Tribune (2017

Download RSS Myth is a fundamental part of what binds and propels a nation forwards towards a shared goal, and in the case of Israel and the surrounding Arab states following the end of the British Mandate in 1948, the mythology of David versus Goliath certainly played to the Israelis’ advantage in mustering national solidarity against the armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. In the Six-Day War in 1967, however, what may have appeared to be superior force at least numerically on the Arab