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Originally published on The Occidental Observer.

The 2026 US midterm elections are rapidly bearing down upon us, with plenty of major implications for Americans and for the world. I want to take a moment here to offer my thoughts on this pressing matter, and maybe suggest a line of thinking for all those would-be voters out there.

As a writer, researcher, and former professor of political philosophy, I have spent much of the past three decades thinking hard about social and political matters—mostly about how we came to be in the present predicament, and how we might get out of it. (more…)

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The prevailing consensus holds that race is a social construct, a label with no biological substance behind it. Yet race is biological, and the evidence for it extends well past the surface of the skin. Complexion is only the signal that people notice first, while the groups it sorts people into differ in the architecture of the brain, in the behavior of genes inside the liver, and in how reliably a physician can forecast illness. Medicine and neuroscience have each begun to document these differences in measurable terms, and the findings point to one conclusion, that racial identity carries biological information that cannot be ignored without cost. (more…)

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Part 1 here, Part 2 here.

On Being Black in America

Hoo doggie! Section 1 was mighty lengthy. This here manuscript is getting long too, so I’d best start painting with broad brushstrokes. The ninth chapter is about dropping the N-bomb; the short version is that colored people can say it, but y’all better not! The word really puts a burr under their saddle, I reckon the same way as when some liberal twerps from Harvard tells us we got all this white privilege. Well, there’s more to the chapter than that, such as: (more…)

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In last weekend’s stream Peter Brimelow returned to discuss the 2026 US midterm elections, Albertan independence, and answer questions.

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Gorgias. Salvatore Caracciolo, 1935. Located in Syracuse.

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Audio version available here:

In Plato’s Gorgias, Socrates asserts that he would rather suffer injustice than do it, because committing injustice harms the soul. At first, this sounds totally cucked, like something a Ned Flanders conservative who conserved nothing would utter. (more…)

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall—a spook in both senses of the term?

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October being the month of both Hallowe’en and Black History Month UK, the (super)natural question arises: why are Britain’s ghosts so overwhelmingly white?

All across the nation, country houses, castles, lonely woods and graveyards are haunted by White Ladies aplenty, but the only Brown Lady I know of, that famously photographed floating down a staircase at Raynham Hall in 1936, appears to have been something of a fake. In this sense, the Brown Lady—actually brown of shawl, not of skin—could stand in as an apt spectral symbol of the fake past of the country being promoted by BHM UK in a wider sense. (more…)

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On Being White in America

The book’s first section opens with a chapter audaciously titled, “Excuse Me, I Don’t Have White Privilege.” This begins:

John is a White man, an airline pilot, and on his off days, he goes running in the neighborhood for exercise. In the summer, he goes in the morning or evening when the temperatures are cooler; in the spring or fall, he might go in the afternoon when the sun feels just right. He doesn’t really think about when he is going, other than when it is convenient for him and feels good. When the time comes, he throws on whatever exercise clothes are clean—his preference is usually some combo of readily available dark blue, grey, or black clothing—laces up his shoes, tucks a key into his inner pocket, and is off. (more…)

Elon Musk’s version of the Odyssey.

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It is not often, these days, as I sit through the beginning of the winter of civilization, that something in the news cheers me up. Recently, however, something did. Elon Musk released a seven-minute clip of his own version of The Odyssey. Naturally, it attempted to actually be faithful to Homer’s original; meaning no black Helen of Troy, or black people at all, let alone a transman playing Sinon. Crucially, he produced this clip with Grok Imagine; with AI. (more…)

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Sara Blanchard and Misasha Suzuki Graham
Dear White Women: Let’s Get (un)comfortable Talking about Racism
Chicago: The Collective Book Studio, 2021

Q: What happens when you cross an American with a Japanese, and then send the kid to Harvard?

A: She’ll find another just like her, and the two will write a book called Dear White Women, subtitled Let’s Get (un)comfortable Talking about Racism.

The above sounds like a lame joke, but it happened. (more…)

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Juha Meriläinen
Putin’s Altar Boy: The Russian Orthodox Church and Russia’s Wars of Aggression
Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2026

Throughout Western history first the Church and then many churches existed apart from the state. God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a prevailing dualism in Western culture. Only in Hindu civilization were religion and politics also so distinctly separated. In Islam, God is Caesar; in China and Japan, Caesar is God; in Orthodoxy, God is Caesar’s junior partner.
—Samuel Huntington (more…)

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Proverbially, black men are supposed to have large penises—but that’s nothing compared to the oversized dimensions of their collective egos.

Igho Ubiribo is (or was) a prominent Nigerian social media influencer, known online simply as “Ego,” because he already had a big one of those. Although no doubt naturally well-endowed anyway, Ego was nonetheless a regular patient in the world-leading penis-enlargement clinics of Singapore, having his brown balloon pumped up even further by tiny yellow medics—until eventually, this March, it finally went “POP!,” pricking his Ego forever. (more…)

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Michael Foucault
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
London: Tavistock Publications, 1970 (translation)

There is an important point to be made about post-structuralism, and although I have made it before, it can’t be over-stressed. Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, and other cast members of what many on the Right see as a French farce are not necessarily unfairly blamed for the epistemological chaos of the world as we have to live in it, but those pointing the dirty end of the stick often haven’t read the first word of any of these writers. (more…)

Julius Evola (on the right) on a mountain trip with friends.

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Scott Mallett’s essay, “Gurdjieff and Julius Evola”, which you can find at his mordantly-titled Substack “Pyreside Chats,” offers readers a compelling vision of two of the twentieth century’s most uncompromising critics. After learning that Evola was close to one of Gurdjieff’s leading pupils, I decided to revisit Scott’s article and ponder matters further.

Julius Evola and George Ivanovich Gurdjieff approached the spiritual crisis of modernity from complementary angles: the one restoring a vision of metaphysical hierarchy, the other diagnosing the broken human being incapable of perceiving or ascending it. (more…)