Recently while talking to a “moderate” conservative and faithful NR reader, I was struck by this person’s profoundly negative view of the past, including the recent past. When I mentioned research by Thomas Sowell in the late 1970s proving that American blacks had made greater economic strides in the 1930s and 1940s than in the 1960s or 1970s, my acquaintance responded … [Read More]

The publicity machine is now gearing up for documentarian Ken Burns’s twelve-hour extravaganza, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, which will run for six straight nights on PBS starting September 27. This being a Ken Burns series, the predominant theme of The National Parks will be “diversity.” So, if you go camping in a national park this month, check out the … [Read More]

I have a simple argument against white racism—not mine, actually, but H.L. Mencken’s. Suppose the Anglo-Americans really were wiped off their ice field. Well, then, nothing would actually be lost that is worth preserving in the first place. Mencken gives the reasons in his book Prejudices, which I excerpt here and adulterate with my own commentary. No other known man . … [Read More]