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Honor, Dignity, and Victimhood: A Tour Through Three Centuries of American Political Culture

16 September, 2015By The People, Community, Culture, Family Structure, History

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.(1929 – 1968) stands in front of a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery, Alabama December 26, 1956 Image Source Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist who penned The Righteous Mind, wrote an important blog post a few days ago responding to a paper by sociologists Bradley Campbell […]

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Akbar Ahmed on Terrorism and the Collapse of the Tribal Order

15 October, 2013Arabia, Bactria, Demographics, Dogs of War, Family Structure, Near East, Pakistan, Religion

Car bomb in Peshawar. Source: Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press. 29 September 2013. Last week I penned a two–post series on the purpose of and underlying reasons for the savage terrorist attacks radical Islamic groups have launched across the world. I argued that these attacks were not “senseless” acts of violence, nor merely the results of fanatic […]

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Radical Islamic Terrorism in Context, pt II

10 October, 2013Arabia, Demographics, Dogs of War, Family Structure, History, Near East, Religion

How to make sense of radical Islamic terrorism? This violence is barbaric – but it is not senseless. When you understand the society from which savagery has sprung, the cold logic behind these attacks becomes all too apparent. Part II of a series; Part I is here. How do you save a civilization from […]

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Radical Islamic Terrorism in Context, pt I

09 October, 2013Arabia, Culture, Demographics, Dogs of War, Family Structure, History, Near East, Religion

How to make sense of radical Islamic terrorism? This violence is barbaric – but it is not senseless. When you understand the society from which savagery has sprung, the cold logic behind these attacks becomes all too apparent. Part I in a series; Part II is here. Smoke rises from the Westgate MallSource: Jerome Delay/AP. […]

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Trying to Make Sense of India’s Sexual Violence, State by State

03 October, 2013Bharat, Demographics, Family Structure, Geography

I will need my readers help on this one. Earlier today Al Jazeera published an interactive feature titled “Violence against India’s women.” The info-graphic summarizes a wide range of data relating to sexual violence in India, including the byzantine process victims of rapes must navigate before charges can be pressed. What caught my eye was […]

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Emmanuel Todd’s Theory of Modernity

14 July, 2013Books and Literature, Demographics, Europa Regina, Family Structure, History

In my review of Michael Lotus and James Bennett’s America 3.0 I stated that French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd (whose work is cited extensively in said work) “is the most under-rated “big idea” thinker in the field of world history.” Craig Willy’s most recent blog post explains why: “Emmanuel Todd’s L’invention de l’Europe: A critical summary“Craig Willy. […]

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America 3.0

09 June, 2013Books and Literature, Community, Domestic Politics, Family Structure, Futuristics, History, Political Theory

It is unusual for me to read a book aimed at popular conservative audiences. I am something of a disaffected conservative. Crony capitalism and government overreach have proved to be bipartisan endeavors, and I have long lost faith that the Republican party can ever be more than an organ of America’s governing elite. [1] Outside […]

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