Valedictory

I regret to tell those of you who have gotten something out of this website that I am discontinuing it. Although I have worked obsessively on issues of race for the past eight years, I have always, of course, had other interests. While I managed to keep these in the background, in the past few months, they have been breaking out and forcing their way into the spotlight. As a result, I can no longer find satisfaction in maintaining a website devoted exclusively to race. More • 8 comments

A Break for Me and Forum Closed

I’ve gotten to a point where I feel like I need some time off. Writing articles requires incredible discipline and effort. At the best of times, it’s hard to stay focused, and every once in a while the emotional and intellectual distractions grow so powerful that I just have to indulge them for a while. I don’t know how long I’ll stop writing—maybe a week, maybe a month. As the article I am currently working on is quite ambitious, I am sure, however, that it will be at least two months until I publish it. I’ve also decided to close the forum. Posting there has grown so light that it isn’t worth keeping it open. If I see a great deal of demand for a forum in the future, I will reopen it. I will go on moderating any comments that come in on the main site. Goodbye for now then. I hope to rejoin you in a short while. 2 comments

Kevin MacDonald is Still Confused

In reading Kevin MacDonald’s response to my last blog post about ethnic altruism, I realized that whole debate between us is probably due to MacDonald’s misunderstanding of the thesis of my article “The Ethnic Nepotism Fallacy.” MacDonald seems to think that my sole object of criticism in that article was genetic similarity theory (GST). However, it was not. What I mean by an ethnic nepotism theory is any theory that supposes that people evolved to direct altruism at co-ethnics because of relatedness. The question of which psychological mechanisms are responsible for this altruism is irrelevant. Thus, my critique applies to MacDonald’s theory of ethnicity if he believes that people instinctually direct altruism at co-ethnics through what he calls “social identity mechanisms” like ethnocentrism and collectivism. More • 0 comments

Kevin MacDonald is Confused About Ethnic Altruism

In a post on The Occidental Observer Blog, Kevin MacDonald claims that I misinterpreted his theory of ethnicity in my article “The Ethnic Nepotism Fallacy.” I attributed to ethnic nepotism theory partisans, including MacDonald, the belief that relatedness within ethnies creates altruism among co-ethnics, or “ethnic altruism.” MacDonald responds that he rejected the idea of ethnic altruism in “An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective on Ethnicity” (“Evolutionary Perspective”). Rather, he thinks co-ethnic relations are characterized by reciprocity, rather than the unreciprocated altruism that one finds among kin. More • 17 comments

Kevin MacDonald responds to “The Ethnic Nepotism Fallacy”

Kevin MacDonald has just responded to “The Ethnic Nepotism Fallacy,” my last article. Expect my response in the next couple of days. 2 comments

Duncan Hengest on the Fort Hood Massacre

Having served as a military officer and written about race in the army, I’ve decided to add my two cents to the discussion on the massacre at Fort Hood in which a Muslim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, killed 13 people. The incident brings home the point I made in “Diversity in the Army,” published in American Renaissance: “America now fights its wars in the Third World, and our policy of putting Third World people in the military is dangerous.” I explicitly warned against the possibility that a Third World soldier, who sided with America’s enemies due to his ethnic origins, would commit a deadly act against his fellows in arms. As far as I know, no high-ranking officer has read the article and certainly none has acted on its suggestions. Had anyone done so, perhaps the massacre would have been prevented. More • 3 comments

Jason Richwine on IQ, Immigration, and Social Capital

A new scholar who is doing interesting work is Jason Richwine, a recent PhD graduate from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. As the AEI website informs us, Richwine’s area of specialization is the link between intelligence and public policy issues, including immigration. Richwine began publishing articles in current affairs magazines and websites this year. Although he never adopts an explicitly pro-white perspective, all of his articles have brought attention to topics that are crucial to this website: racial differences in intelligence, the failure of Hispanics to integrate into American society, and the relationship of intelligence to social and economic success. More • 13 comments