Amerika

Rhetoric heated up this week. We had a second round of Middle East “revolutions,” a struggle over unions in the USA, and more European neurotic navel-gazing. Delight hid in the corners, and here is some good reading matter from this time:

• The Thinking Housewife: Even in an Industrialized Nation, Americans Said No to Working Wives and Mothers, A High School Girl Wins, The Double Standards of Western Feminism (and mentioned Amerika here, which really made my day)
• Great Satan’s Girlfriend: Supreme Authority
• VDARE: Criminalizing Masculinity
• Athol Kay: Alpha Professions and Under-Appreciated Wives, Alpha Professions and Under-Appreciated Wives: Part Two, Alpha Professions and Under-Appreciated Wives: Part 3
• Attack the System: The U.S. Empire is Going Down in the Middle East , Totalitarian Humanism, Foreign and Domestic
• Confederate Colonel: White Privilege – Guilty As Charged
• Dienekes: mtDNA discontinuity in the Nile Valley, A common ancestor of Indo-European and Hurrian
• Economic Road Map: Further Evidence, ‘Going to the US Is More Unpleasant Than Going to Soviet-Era Russia’
• Kali-Yuga: Hierarchy and Authority; neither good nor evil., Observations
• Edge: John Brockman: Matchmaking with Science and Art, The bright future of post-partisan social psychology: A talk with Jonathan Haidt
• Financial Armageddon: Different Perspectives, But a Similar Picture
• AltRight: Waiting for the fall: an interview with Robert N. Taylor of Changes
• Victor Davis Hanson: Goodbye to All That — 2004-2007
• Gene Expression: D.I.Y. Population Structure Inference
• Steve Sailer: Ron Unz on the Evolution of Amy Chua (if you want to understand the monolithic appearance of Far East culture, this is a good place to start), The real question in American politics might turn out to be: Can the Democrats of the Post-Obama Era thrive as The Black Party in an increasingly non-black America?
• Gornahoor: Conspiracies and the Gas Laws, Caste and Social Order
• Home Living: Women Ploughing
• Homestead Revival: How Beekeeping Has Changed (really, how American agriculture has standardized itself)
• Jack Donovan: Masculinity is strength.
• In Mala Fide: Why the Atlas Shrugged movie will bomb, Lara Logan and the liberal feminist denial of reality
• Larval Subjects: Falling and Social Assemblages
• Information Processing: Sociobiological implications of the (historical) rural Chinese economy?, The Great Stagnation(“the low hanging fruit in science and technology and in utilization of human capital has been picked”), Demography and Destiny
• View From the Right: Thuggish mobs have taken over the Wisconsin state capitol , Understanding Wisconsin, The Democrats’ new dispensation for America
• Man Sized Target: On National Conversations, Wisconsin, Who Knew?
• Marginal Revolution: Why does college cost so much?
• Secular Right: Social conservatism & religious conservatism, The 2012 budget: A BS-detector, Japan disses diversity
• American New Right: Leftist Psychology: Delusions in Disguise (oldie but goodie)
• The Scientific Fundamentalist: More intelligent people are more likely to binge drink (more accurately, intelligent children grow up to binge drink; consequences of a miserable, deceptive, and schizoid time)
• Pleasantview Schoolhouse: Waiting on your late bloomer
• FerFAL: Thomas Jefferson’s Swiss Army Knife
• Fourth Checkraise: Why can’t a ‘puter be more like a man?, Critical Theories
• The Audacious Epigone: California may be our future, but Illinois is the present…
• Gormogons: Why video games lean conservative (reality simulations tend to be conservative; despite the cliche “reality has a liberal bias,” reality including time has a conservative bias)
• Obsidian: Why we write (about HBD)
• Youth for Western Civilization: Egyptian Democracy
• The Spearhead: In Stalinist Academic Climate, Candid Thoughts Prompt Career Liquidation, University kills computer science major but keeps womens studies.
• Turnabout: “Modernity is marked by rejection of knowledge as contemplation in favor of knowledge as technology”
• Bruce Charlton: Libertarians ‘always’ become PC when they get power and make policies, Why are psychiatric drugs dysphoric, demotivating and dumbing? (a must-read for anyone prescribed or using any form of brain-targeted drug), Political correctness or fascism – the current secular political options

News:

• Center for Biological Diversity: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate nearly 7,000 acres as critical habitat for nine rare, cave-dwelling invertebrates in Bexar County, Texas
• The Guardian: Others being lazy and selfish merely gives us a good excuse to behave likewise
• NumbersUSA: 4 more members co-sponsor birthright citizenship act
• WSJ: Where have all the good men gone?
• Pajamas Media: “Unions aren’t for wealth redistribution in general. Just in particular.”
• Washington Post: Danish Supreme Court deals blow to hippie enclave
• Swedish Wire: Sweden overtakes the US in competitiveness
• TakiMag: “Passover Syndrome”: most prominent behavioral feature consists of white liberals projecting historical blame onto other whites and hoping that nonwhites will see them as not-so-white for doing so.
• The Economist: Climate change in black and white: When air pollution hurts people’s health and heats up the climate it makes sense to do something about it. But what about pollution that cools the planet?
• National Geographic: Evolution in action. Probably the fastest we have ever seen.
• Twin Cities: The men at this St. Paul ‘wet house’ don’t want your help, or your hope. And they won’t get better. It’s a place where the most hopeless of alcoholics can drink away their final days at less risk and cost to the public.

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