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A Conversation With Symposium Contributor Joanne Florino
In her contribution to the Giving Review's symposium “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy,” Joanne Florino argues that the best way for conservative grantmakers to pursue their core…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 1, 2023

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Going Green for White Supremacy: Preserving the Frontier
Many of the worst ideas of our century can be traced back to pseudoscience in the last century. Eugenics, phrenology, and innate racial disparities may be debunked, but their ghosts…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022

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Going Green for White Supremacy: Scientific Racism on Display
To Madison Grant, William Z. Ripley, and countless other evolutionists of the age these were the profound, unavoidable conclusions drawn from nature’s inner workings, which Charles Darwin had only begun…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022

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Going Green for White Supremacy: Eugenics Is Born
According to Spiro, Grant drew three lessons from Gobineau’s race theory: first, to apply zoological concepts (e.g. dangerous crossbreeding) to Man; second, that class struggle explains all of human history;…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022

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Going Green for White Supremacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Eugenicists’ fear of racial intermixing made them natural allies with the feminists of the powerful birth control movement. While contraception is widespread today, few people are aware that in the…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022

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Going Green for White Supremacy: The End of an Era
For all its might it was clear by the mid-1920s that eugenics was losing its powerful influence in government and the scientific community. It’d taken decades to build—only to collapse…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022

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Opposition “Anti-Marxist Liberals” in Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism
In his book, political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that conservatism should return to what he considers its older, deeper, Anglo-American religious and nationalist roots—as opposed to continuing to be a…
by Michael E. Hartmann on June 21, 2022

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Why Should We Build That Which We Cannot Trust?
If one is politically conservative, Yuval Levin’s approach creates a Catch-22: If conservatives recommit to institutions, they are largely committing to institutions that are controlled by managerial progressives and managerial…
by Michael Watson on August 25, 2021

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Elites, Barstools, Raw Beauty, and a (Philanthropic) “George Option”
In an excerpt from his 2019 book Where the Light Divides that he published on his blog last month, The Gathering founder Fred Smith—with his typical warmth, charm, and thought-provoking insight—writes, For many…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 22, 2021

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Michael Gerson, Annoying Faux Conservative
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back…
by Matthew Vadum on December 17, 2008