OD’s Indictment
British West Indies In preparation for writing OD’s first book, Shattering The Golden Circle: The Failure of Free Society in Dixie, Haiti, and the Caribbean, […]
Articles by Hunter Wallace
Caribbean Project: Review: Amazing Grace (2006)
Great Britain Now playing … the story of William Wilberforce and British abolitionism. This is the whole two hour movie. I will write a review […]
Amurrica Series: “The Bro Gotta Go”
Amurrica The latest appeal for Mitt Romney in November:
Caribbean Project: “Beyond The Line”
Barbados I’ve come across this phrase “beyond the line” several times during my research and have begun to realize its immense importance to understanding how […]
RIP Marc Ferguson
Massachusetts H/T CWMemory I would like to think that denouncing us here in the OD comment section provided Ferg a small comfort during his last […]
Oligarchy 2012
Amerika Steve Harris at Amerika.org writes: “I have observed that almost nobody understands just about anything during this election. People are telling you stupid stuff, […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Mighty Experiment
Great Britain Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation is an attempt to understand the abolition of slavery in the […]
Caribbean Project: Free Labor Jamaica vs. Slave Labor Cuba
British West Indies In Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, we saw how the abolition of slavery in Haiti (1794) […]
Linder on Slavery
VNN Forum Alex Linder writes: “It’s one thing to make intellectual arguments for slavery, that’s worth doing for a number of reasons, but it is […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti, the British West Indies, and the South’s “Mirror”
Dixie In light of the weakness of abolitionist fanatics in the North, why was the South so sensitive to abolitionist criticism? Why was the South […]
Caribbean Project: Abolition and the Weakness of British Racialism, 1788 to 1838
Great Britain This is very significant: “Far from strengthening the authority of natural science on this question, the British debate over slavery tended to marginalize […]
The Cost of the Union: New PPRI Study on White Working Class
BRA Joan Walsh flags this new PPRI study on the White working class: “In mid-August, Romney held a commanding 40-point lead over Obama among white […]
The Province of Freedom: Free Labor vs. Slave Labor in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone As Stephen Drescher observes in The Mighty Experiment, the total failure of free society in Sierra Leone, a free labor colony in West […]
Unite The Right … for Mitt Romney?
Amerika Brett Stevens pushes back against the air that is rapidly deflating from the Mitt Romney presidential balloon. Mitt Romney has managed to piss off […]
Jewsmedia Legitimacy Hits Record Lows
Gallup Now for some good news … “Americans’ distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60% saying they have little or […]
The Waning of British Antiracism
Great Britain I’ve encountered this several times now in my research: during the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century, “anti-racism” was briefly ascendant in social science in […]
Chinese Communists Chortle Over America’s Major Cities
Michigan This ties in nicely with our historical discussion of how Adam Smith’s free labor ideology was foolishly imposed on the slave societies in the […]
Caribbean Project: Adam Smith, Free Labor, Slavery
British West Indies This is getting good. If the free labor system was so superior to slavery, as Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of […]
Romney Promises Not to ‘Round Up’ Undocumented Immigrants
BRA Here’s the latest from the most important election of our lifetimes on which the fate of America hinges: “By JORDAN FABIAN MIAMI, Sept. 19, […]
Caribbean Project: SNN Podcast: Inhuman Bondage and Postwar Poverty
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast that I did this afternoon on my review of Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis. Note: […]
Matthew Heimbach’s “Uppity” Crusade
Maryland H/T Kosher Republic This is getting bigger than I expected it would be. If I was Matt, I would send a letter to the […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
New World In Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of New World Slavery, David Brion Davis sets the American South within the international context of […]
Golden Dawn Surges To 22 Percent
Greece For years, there has been considerable speculation on the internet as to whether “the collapse” would come, and whether it would work to our […]
Slavery and Ireland
Ireland This is a great point. I’m reading about how James Henry Hammond attacked the British abolitionists by pointing out how the same philanthropists full […]
Foundations of Southern Nationalism
Antebellum South This is interesting and draws upon Drew Gilpin Faust’s older book A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, […]
Chick-fil-A Caves To Gay Lobby
Chick-fil-A I’m not surprised at all: Kevin DeAnna called it back in August at the height of the mania. Note: I would be less surprised […]
Origins of “Racism”
Germany I found this in the Inhuman Bondage footnotes: “According to Imanuel Geiss, the neologism “racism” originated in Germany in the 1920s as a polemical […]
Caribbean Project: Racism: A History
BBC Watching now … the origins of the biggest sin in modern British society. Note: This is pretty silly. Europeans were obviously trying to understand […]
“Racism” Biggest Sin In Today’s Society
United Kingdom H/T Palmetto Patriot Someone might ask the obvious question: seeing as how most people in modern Britain are certain that God doesn’t exist, […]
Tom Woods: The Establishment’s Job
Twitter H/T Gregory Hood Very concise: “It’s the job of the Establishment to confine the range of debate within narrow limits, to designate certain opinions […]
Live Thread: Death and the Civil War
PBS H/T Crossroads In light of all our discussions about slavery and the War Between the States (aka The War To Prevent BRA), the new […]