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Where Do the Children Play?

The population bomb, birthrates and the future of humanity

Keith Woods • May 4, 2024

• 7,500 Words • 222 Comments • Reply

The Economist Philip Pilkington wrote an essay on what he called “Capitalism’s Overlooked Contradiction”. He identified this contradiction as the “tendency of the rate of people to fall.” Pilkington was here borrowing from Marx, whose prediction of a necessary collapse of capitalism and transition to communism was premised on a fundamental contradiction he believed he... Read More

The Pauper, 1894-1895, Theodor Kittelsen. This and other works by Kittelsen have appeared on Norwegian black metal albums. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

A Pauper's Death

Peter Frost • November 28, 2015

• 2,200 Words • 105 Comments • Reply

Black metal is a musical subgenre that grew out of death metal and, more broadly, heavy metal. In general, it pushes certain aspects of this genre to even farther extremes: fast tempos, shrieking vocals, and violent stage acts. Black metal bands can be found almost anywhere—Europe, North America, East Asia, even Indonesia and Israel. In... Read More

Collection box for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society circa 1850. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Evolution of Antiracism

Peter Frost • November 1, 2014

• 1,400 Words • 49 Comments • Reply

Throughout the world, kinship used to define the limits of morality. The less related you were to someone, the less moral you had to be with him or her. We see this in the Ten Commandments. The phrase "against thy neighbor" qualifies the commandment against bearing false witness and, implicitly, the preceding ones against killing,... Read More

Adam and Eve, Jan Brueghel de Oude en Peter Paul Rubens. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

A Fruitful Encounter

Did the Christian doctrine of original sin create the guilt cultures of Northwest Europe? Or did the arrow of causality...

Peter Frost • September 26, 2014

• 1,600 Words • 60 Comments • Reply

By definition, gene-culture co-evolution is reciprocal. Genes and culture are both in the driver's seat. This point is crucial because there is a tendency to overreact to cultural determinism and to forget that culture does matter, even to the point of influencing the makeup of our gene pool. Through culture, humans have directed their own... Read More

Guns & Violence, Again...

JayMan • June 11, 2014

• 1,900 Words • 14 Comments • Reply

With the recent spate of mass shootings, (at least four high-profile incidents occurring in the U.S. and Canada in the last two weeks), the issues of guns and violence inevitably come up. Naturally, the politically correct wisdom, which is founded on the blank slate (or at least, a bare slate), wants to blame these events... Read More

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The 7 Tribes of Intellect

James Thompson

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How Social Darwinism Made Modern China • 52m ▶

A thousand years of meritocracy shaped the Middle Kingdom.

Ron Unz

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The IQ Gap Is No Longer a Black and White Issue

Chanda Chisala

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