LAST WEDNESDAY was the fourth anniversary of the death of traditionalist writer Lawrence Auster. A few friends of his and I met at his grave that day to remember him and pray for his eternal happiness. We enjoyed some counter-cultural conversation afterward in fitting memory of our departed friend, whose wit and wisdom are missed by many.

Here in belated recognition of this anniversary is an excerpt from one of the many excellent entries, this one from February 11, 2009, that Mr. Auster posted at View from the Right on one of his all-time favorite subjects — Darwinism. The philosophical errors of the Darwinian theory, he believed, could never be exhausted:

As they work themselves into a proper celebratory frenzy over the bicentennial of the birth of the man who, they fondly imagine, successfully murdered God and who is thus himself the ultimate god of modernity, the priesthood of the Darwinian cult are engaging in the same doublethink that I have frequently noted before in their periodic boasts of triumph. The doublethink consists in the fact that right in the middle of their assured, oh-so-confident, sweeping-aside-all-doubts declarations of the absolute, unquestionable truth of Darwinism, that truth that is “the bedrock of modern biology,” and indeed of modern civilization itself and of all that is good and decent, that truth that no one but low IQ backwoodsmen and Christian bigots dares deny, the Darwinists quietly but clearly let on that the core and essence of Darwinism—the evolution of new species by means of random genetic mutations and natural selection—has not been proved. Repeat: the Darwinians openly admit that Darwinism has not been proved. Yet such is the hypnotic power of the Darwinian ascendancy over men’s minds that even as the emperor strips himself naked before the populace, no one notices that he is doing this. (more…)

KATHLENE M. writes:

I am forwarding a print ad that I came across in the April 3, 2017 edition of People Magazine, page 85. My instant impression of the ad was that it was bizarre and weird. Yes, it got my attention but so would other methods, so why this? The girl in the ad could get injured by her sadistic brother, yet she smiles as if enjoying the abuse.

(The ad also reminds me of the so-called “pizzagate” picture of the little girl with her hands duct-taped to a table. The picture was taken presumably in a pizzeria.)

When I asked my family for their impressions of the ad, they too thought it was odd, bizarre, and weird. What do you think of this ad? (more…)

IN THE ARTICLE "Four Years with Francis, Supreme Blasphemer of the Vatican,” the pseudonymous author Miles Christi writes of "Pope" Francis: When it comes to referring to the sayings and the facts of Francis, it is impossible not to find blasphemies scattered everywhere, whatever the subject addressed or the action performed. If I have decided to dedicate an article to some of his numerous blasphemies, it has been with the precise pedagogical purpose of highlighting the most outstanding, so that Christians, becoming aware of the unspeakable malice and impiety of this foolish man, may escape his diabolical schemes and not be seduced by the false gospel which he preaches, nor by the adulterated Christ which he deceitfully presents to the world, shielding himself in the immense prestige and considerable moral authority conferred upon him by his investiture. Christi provides ample evidence that Francis is not even a believing Catholic, let alone a legitimate pope to whom Catholics owe submission.

NOT ONLY does the Ivy League damage young and impressionable minds, it costs ordinary taxpayers a bundle. From 2010 to 2015 alone, it reportedly received $120,000 per undergraduate student in government subsidies. (more…)

THOSE who screamed and yelled about Trump’s Muslim ban are mostly silent about Muslims being obliterated by American bombs. From Anti-War.Com:

Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler, the deputy commander for the air war in Iraq and Syria, today offered details on the ever-growing scope of the air campaign over the massive, densely populated Iraqi city of Mosul, saying the US is in its “most kinetic” phase so far of the war. (more…)

HENRY MAKOW reviews the movie “Get Out:”

Despite being written and directed by Mad-TV veteran Jordan Peele, “Get Out” is a dreary cliche-ridden horror flick bereft of any humor or satire. It flogs the tired liberal-Jewish theme of white racism and black enslavement that, in this context, is somehow considered edgy and chic.

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A READER has informed me that this photo I posted with a brief entry on college women of yesteryear is not a photo of women in college at all.

It is a photo of women in high school, from the 1958 graduating class of Upper Darby High School outside Philadelphia.

Wow, pause for a moment and reflect on this astounding glimpse into the past. Judging by appearances, these are mature women prepared for real life, not children prepared for another phase of extended childhood.

Some of these young women are very beautiful. They have movie star looks. But notice how the ones who have humbler looks are beautified and even ennobled by their dignified dress and charming modesty. Styles of today are, in contrast, especially unkind to women not endowed with great looks. By the way, Upper Darby was not a wealthy town. These are middle-class students. Thanks, feminism! Thanks all you pink-hatted gripe artists! Thanks for destroying the beauty, purpose and nobility of femininity! (more…)

NED HOLSTEIN, founder of the National Parents Organization, writes:

This Washington Post article about “the sea of despair” among working class whites is a variant on “Meteor Threatens Life on Earth: Women Affected Most.”

Both the researchers and the Post (and also NPR) report the relative increase in these deaths by sex, which makes it look as if the burden is shared by both men and women (196 percent increase in men, 115 percent increase in women). But a 115 percent increase in a small number is still a small number. A 196 percent increase in an already large number is a huge number. They need to also publish the ABSOLUTE death rates by sex; these will show that the problem is lopsided, with men affected at a much, much greater level than women.

Obscuring the lopsided gender effect by only reporting percentage increases instead of absolute increases is not an accident; after all, nothing today is important unless it affects women.

I also fear that the researchers who follow up on this will utterly fail to take into account the large effects on dads of being non-custodial parents, forced to pay back-breaking amounts of child support for children they do not get to see. If they did, they would find lots of low-education young and middle aged men with no decent job prospects, AND no prospect of ever being able to pay the child support that is demanded of them by law, NOR any prospect of being allowed to be close to their children. The researchers will neglect this out of habit, because they have never wanted to look at the reality of men’s lives, preferring to look at the politically correct causes. (more…)

DAN R. writes:

To the strains of Helen Reddy (“I am Woman”), score one for girl power! And with Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s decision to allow the “fearless girl” statue to stand at least until next year, let’s score one for commie power. The bull, described by its Italian-born sculptor as a symbol of prosperity and strength, has stood on Wall Street since 1989. Who but a commie would want to demean such a symbol? Why, feminists of course, who are only too happy if it can play a part in raising the numbers of women on Wall Street to the magical level of 50%. Apart from the “fearless girl” statue being worthy of a character in a comic book, it’s a parasitic work that owes everything to its placement in front of the bull, stated proudly and openly by a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. “The girl has changed the meaning of the bull forever,” said the professor, David Levi Strauss. The sculptor of the bull certainly recognizes this and is planning to sue the company that commissioned the work.

So she’s facing a bull for the opportunity to work on Wall Street?

Poor little girl.

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PETER T. SINGLETON, at the Center for Literate Values, writes on political correctness at the state university where he will soon no longer be teaching. It is not acceptable anymore to speak of "freshman" students or only two genders: Gender ideology ... like all progressive ideology, is never satisfied with its gains because its ultimate goal is to transform earth into heaven (an undertaking that always transforms earth into hell).

FROM an essay by Laird Wilcox, “The Practice of Ritual Defamation: How values, opinions and beliefs are controlled in democratic societies:”

Defamation is the destruction or attempted destruction of the reputation, status, character or standing in the community of a person or group of persons by unfair, wrongful, or malicious speech or publication. For the purposes of this essay, the central element is defamation in retaliation for the real or imagined attitudes, opinions or beliefs of the victim, with the intention of silencing or neutralizing his or her influence, and/or making an example of them so as to discourage similar independence and “insensitivity” or non-observance of taboos. It is different in nature and degree from simple criticism or disagreement in that it is aggressive, organized and skillfully applied, often by an organization or representative of a special interest group, and in that it consists of several characteristic elements.

    Ritual Defamation is not ritualistic because it follows any prescribed religious or mystical doctrine, nor is it embraced in any particular document or scripture. Rather, it is ritualistic because it follows a predictable, stereotyped pattern which embraces a number of elements, as in a ritual. (more…)

STAFF Sgt. Alexandria Mae Morrow was the mother of two young children, ages two and four.

“Equality” and the fraudulent “War on Terror” create two more orphans. (more…)

JOHN TIFFANY writes at The American Free Press: Since Jan. 1, over 100 bomb threats have been made against Jewish institutions, such as schools and community centers, around the world, including in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. The establishment immediately insinuated that “hateful Trump supporters” were terrorizing the Jewish community. Now it turns out a 19-year-old Jewish man living in Israel, who holds dual citizenship in America and the Middle Eastern state, stands accused of making most of the threats. In related news, a Jewish man in upstate New York was arrested this week for spray-painting swastikas on his home in another fake anti-Semitic crime. When the Jewish suffering racket is in jeopardy, Jews -- a tiny, tiny minority of Jews never publicly excoriated by the majority -- stage anti-Semitic acts that gentile Americans almost never commit. Expect much more of this.

LYDIA SHERMAN writes:

Recently a rumor spread in Germany that the food from McDonald’s contains wood products. (McDonald’s fries are extremely popular in Germany.)

To refute this, MacDonald’s produced this video.

The deadpan seriousness of the actor is priceless. The script in English: (more…)

  MORE here. Fifty years of non-stop demonization of white men and outsourcing of labor don't exactly boost morale.

Natassia writes:

I thought you might get a kick out of this. It’s a screenshot from The Morning Times (Washington, D.C.), Dec. 29th, 1895, page 11. The entire newspaper is free to read on the Library of Congress website.

I came across it while researching for my genealogy hobby. (more…)

G.R. writes: This essay by Fabrice Hadjadj in Humanum reminded me of you. It's titled "Rediscovering the “Language of Wood”: Why Can’t We Just Substitute 'Be Fruitful and Multiply' with 'Connect and Download?'” Here is an excerpt: Some might think that there is no difference between the library of Trinity College and a database. One might argue that the database is more useful, because it can be carried in a pocket on a USB stick or on an external hard drive. But can you live in an external hard drive? With the library, there is the large park outside, the useless vastness of the halls and of the large windows, the humble solemnity of the slabs of rock which hold the memory of the forests, the hammered leather of the bindings which preserve the memory of the animals, and the physical closeness of the teacher, the physical closeness of that fellow-student or of that pretty co-ed we don’t know; and then the pen, the ink, the heavy paper which forces us not to waste and on which we cannot write just anything: all things which don’t serve us in our work, which don’t provide information for our topic of research, but which sustain us in our presence to the world, and which remind us of the generous density of existence.

S.K. writes:

Recently you had a commenter post regarding teacher-student affairs.

I have followed these stories before, overwhelmingly female teachers and always they are the initiators of it. The male-female gym teacher with the girls seems far rarer. Last year one female teacher had become pregnant by a student half her age, and she was married (she was going to pass off the child as her husband’s). And these are generally young and beautiful women by and large, and often married. This phenomenon will one day need to be explained somehow, in the meantime all we can do is look on and wonder why. (more…)