Demographic replacement of the White Christian West has advanced so rapidly that for anyone in middle age upwards their younger lives seem to have been spent in a different country. In the entire roll of my high school in the late Seventies and early Eighties there was one Black boy and a few Asian offspring... Read More

Our ancestors, the Hunter-Gatherers of the North, evolved in the harsh environment of the Ice age. They formed small groups that tended for reasons of survival to isolate themselves socially instead of creating large cohesive communities, ethnocentrism being irrelevant in the battle against the elements, according to American professor of evolutionary psychology, Dr. Kevin MacDonald,... Read More

It was two thousand years ago that the Roman writer Juvenal warned us to beware of our dreams coming true. An attractive Roman noblewoman may go to great lengths in her self-adornment only to discover how intensely she is hated by her less physically endowed female companions. Comes the time when the envy of her... Read More

It’s a clever little rule based on a curious linguistic coincidence: “You should eat oysters only in months whose name contains an ‘r.’” The linguistic coincidence is that, in the northern hemisphere, the names with an “r” cover all the cool and cold months when oysters were safest to eat in pre-refrigeration days. A similarly... Read More

Growing up on a North German farm, I never met any Jews before I started studying classical piano at music conservatory. Two Ashkenazi students (male and female) from England were part of my class, and over the years, we interacted several times like students do, in a friendly, fun manner. I remember having accompanied a... Read More

The Crest of the Peacock (1991) has a beautiful title and an ugly purpose. The book takes that title from a line in an ancient Sanskrit text: “Like the crest of a peacock, like the gem on the head of a snake, so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.” (p. v) So much... Read More