Sublime

A model of this thought pattern, one which ends inevitably in the normalization of extremely problematic views, is author Sam Harris’s 2017 reanimation of the IQ race wars that began with the publication of The Bell Curve in 1994. That book’s authors, psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, argue that intelligence

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It was not the politics most Black Americans wanted of Jordan, especially not when, right outside of where he balled in Chicago, housing projects ate away at the lives of the descendants of migrants; especially not when in his home state Harvey Gantt, a Black man, lost in senate races to Jesse Helms, a former Klansman, twice. When appealed to for a

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Ok. So I study authoritarian regimes for a living. I spend most of my time thinking about how Russia's dictatorship works. But one of my personal side-projects involves looking at authoritarian theorists closer to home. The most prominent by far is Curtis Yarvin. https://t.co/LnkVPpyydL

As Real America breaks down the ossified libertarianism of Free America, Just America assaults the complacent meritocracy of Smart America. It does the hard, essential thing that the other three narratives avoid, that white Americans have avoided throughout our history. It forces us to see the straight line that runs from slavery and segregation to

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