JEFF W. writes: Your recent discussion on day care brought this quote to mind: Pair marriage is monopolistic. It produces an exclusive family, and nourishes family pride and ambition...Pair marriage is also individualistic. It is the barrier against which all socialism breaks into dust. As the cost of a family increases, the connection between family and capital becomes more close and vital. Every socialist who can think is forced to go on to a war on marriage and the family, because he finds that in marriage and the family lie the strongholds of the 'individualistic vices' which he cannot overcome. He has to mask this battery, however, because he dare not openly put it forward. From Folkways by William Graham Sumner (1906).

IS A WHITE PERSON who rejects multiculturalism and wants to preserve the culture of his ancestors a “white nationalist?” The label has an unsavory connotation. Writing at The American Thinker, Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, explains why it’s hard to find the right word. He writes:

Whites who do not accept the current — and, I might add, very recent — orthodoxy on race have been called many things, but the reason there is no agreed-upon name for them is that they are expressing views that were so taken for granted by earlier generations of Americans that there was no need for a name. (more…)

HURRICANE BETSY writes:

Your recent commentary on feminine practical clothing got me going. I think that I recall you saying that you didn’t have enough aprons. I found this, and it seems that it would really do the job. (more…)

DIANA writes:

I do not think Amy Winehouse’s death is any kind of watershed. The monstrous machine will go on and on, until the entire economic system crashes. The possible rewards of show business look so glittering that there will always be legions of young dummies willing to sacrifice their youth for them. (more…)

IN FEBRUARY, a feminist blogger reviewed the PBS documentary Southern Belle. She was shaken to the core: (more…)

THE GARDEN
by Andrew Marvell

How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays;
And their uncessant labors see
Crowned from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow-vergèd shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid;
While all the flowers and trees do close
To weave the garlands of repose.

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence, thy sister dear!
Mistaken long, I sought you then
In busy companies of men:
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow;
Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude. (more…)

BUCK O. writes:

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, the British writer Peter Hitchens called the British National Party a “delusional cult” because it limited membership to whites. In response, Lawrence Auster wrote:

So BNP limits membership to whites. Therefore BNP members are “outside the rules of reason,” they are a “delusional cult,” they are people who “specifically reject reason and truth in their discourse” and who “cannot really be treated as if they are civilised participants in the national debate,” and therefore instead of debating or talking civilly with them, one just treats them with mocking contempt.

What’s wrong with that? (more…)

KENDRA writes:

I read your recent post on the PBS documentary on the “Southern Belle” girls camp in the south.

I am not sure if you are familiar with the “Girls Rock” band camp phenomenon that is sweeping the nation, but there are camps hosted in many large cities now. (more…)