I’ve written about tribalism on several occasions, mainly at Liberty’s Torch V1.0. Because of associations that link tribe with race, it’s a subject that induces considerable trepidation in persons who dislike being called nasty names. Yet it’s a real phenomenon, it has deleterious effects on a society, and when allowed any latitude it can …
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Oct 11 2023
The Needs Of The Times
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis If you’ve seen the delightful movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you’ll surely remember Toula’s father, played by Michael Constantine, touting Windex as the panacea of all …
Jul 17 2023
“Excuse Me, Sir, Are You A Member?”
We don’t have a science of sociodynamics. We have theories, models, and assorted conjectures, but at this time sociologists can’t claim the degree of predictive accuracy that would qualify sociodynamics as a science. Sociodynamics’ most important shortcoming, as is the case with economics and psychology, is the inability to say when the developments it …
Oct 27 2022
Desperation On The Anti-Free-Speech Front
This conference has raised something of a row: There’s mounting faculty opposition to an invitation-only, no-media-allowed academic freedom conference scheduled for next week at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. The conference, headlined by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel and organized by the business school’s Classical Liberalism Initiative, has been criticized as pre-emptively …
May 19 2021
Reading the Tells and Survival (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part 1 THE SECOND KEY TELL I hinted at it in an above bullet point. Were we facing an actual and existential threat to humanity from Covid we’d be throwing everything including the kitchen sink at it. HCQ, Ivermectin, Vitamin D and C and Zinc supplements. Anything! Everything! I remember one Bill Whittle …
May 02 2012
Tension And Habitat
Part 1: Racial Tensions In recent weeks, talk of an impending race war has become commonplace — far more so than one would expect from the people of a deliberately multiracial, multi-ethnic nation. Moreover, in light of the multiple nationwide attacks on innocent Caucasians by Negroes (including gangs and impromptu bands of Negroes), it cannot …
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