Author Archives: Donald Thoresen

Donald Thoresen

Nicholas Guyatt’s Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

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Nicholas Guyatt
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
New York: Basic Books, 2016

Throughout history, whites have tended to feel a need to dissect the philosophical implications and practical consequences of their actions. Passion and emotion are rarely the driving forces behind white historical movement. Read more …

Published: September 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged abolitionism, American history, American Indians, Bind Us Apart, Blacks in America, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, Indian reservations, miscegenation, Nicholas Guyatt, North American New Right, originals, race-mixing, segregation, slavery, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Progressivism, Eugenics, & Sterilization

Donald Thoresen

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Adam Cohen
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
New York: Penguin, 2016

The unfairly neglected American modernist composer Carl Ruggles once scolded an audience member who was loudly expressing his disapproval during a performance of a piece of music by Charles Ives by standing up, turning to him, and telling him to “shut up and listen like a man.”[1] Read more …

Published: July 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adam Cohen, book reviews, Carrie Buck, Donald Thoresen, eugenics, Imbeciles, involuntary sterilization, Louis Brandeis, North American New Right, Oliver Wendell Holmes, originals, Progressive movement, sterilization, the Jewish question, US Supreme Court | Comments closed

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Racism, Eugenics, & the Progressive Movement

Donald Thoresen

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Thomas C. Leonard
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016

In many ways the Progressive Era embodies the best of white America. It was a period of compassion, community concern, attempts to raise the living standard of average Americans, a desire to achieve class harmony, to end (or at least reduce) capitalist corruption, Read more …

Published: June 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged biological race differences, Blacks in America, book reviews, capitalism, Darwinism, Donald Thoresen, eugenics, feminism, Illiberal Reformers, immigration restruction, labor movement, North American New Right, originals, Progressive movement, Protesantism, regulation, social Darwinism, Taylorism, Thomas C. Leonard, United States | Comments closed

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“The Battle of Berkeley”
Identity Europa at Cal

Donald Thoresen

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On May 3, 2016, Identity Europa, the recently formed pro-white advocacy group led by Nathan Damigo, released a statement revealing their plan to hold an event in Sproul Plaza on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. This was followed by a social media campaign and support from the National Policy Institute, led by Richard Spencer. The purpose was to create a “safe space” for a discussion of race and white interests. Read more …

Published: May 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Battle of Berkeley, Donald Thoresen, Identity Evropa, Nathan Damigo, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, white activism | Comments closed

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The White Race as Global Proletariat

Donald Thoresen

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One of the intellectual developments responsible for transforming numerous Italian Leftists into Fascists was the notion of a nation-based proletariat. Realizing that a political consciousness based on class alone was a failing strategy for national rejuvenation, the men who would set the ideological groundwork for Fascism began to understand that more was needed to unite those nations oppressed by the global power hierarchy. Read more …

Published: May 3, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Donald Thoresen, fascism, Italy, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Stand Your Ground:
Milo, the Alt-Right, & Mainstream Attention

Donald Thoresen

2,386 words

It is hard not to like Milo Yiannopoulos. Watching him is like watching Firing Line if it were being hosted by Noël Coward. He is unquestionably a witty, bright-eyed, and charming individual. Politically, he inhabits the intellectual space in which White Nationalism and conservatism sometimes overlap. That is to say, he is a vocal opponent of feminism in its most flawed manifestations, opposes Muslim immigration, supports Donald Trump, and so on. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 1488ers, Alt-Right, articles, Donald Thoresen, Koenraad Elst, mainstreaming, Milo Yiannopoulos, North American New Right, originals, the Alternative Right, vanguardism, vantards | Comments closed

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Chicago: The Veil is Being Lifted

Donald Thoresen

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At the root of all politics is a threat of violence. Whether enacted from above or below, the ability to assert one’s political interests requires, at the very least, the threat of force.

White Nationalist Answers to Postcolonialist Questions

Donald Thoresen

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Diego Rivera, Flower Carrier

Do you feel that your own people and country are somehow positioned outside the mainstream? Have you ever felt that the moment you said the word ‘I’, that ‘I’ was someone else, not you? That in some obscure way, you were not the subject of your own sentence? Do you ever feel that whenever you speak, you have already in some sense been spoken for? Or that when you hear others speaking, Read more …

Published: February 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, colonialism, Donald Thoresen, Edward Said, non-white immigration, North American New Right, orientalism, originals, post-colonialism, Robert J. C. Young, white dispossession, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Unnatural Order:
The Corporation as Parallel State & Culture

Donald Thoresen

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Most of us are familiar with the anti-white policies of the corporate world. From affirmative action and diversity promotions to termination for thought crimes and anti-white advertisements, big business happily accepts the dictates of the Jewish narrative in all its guises. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, corporations, Donald Thoresen, hierarchy, North American New Right, originals, Robert Jackall, social psychology | Comments closed

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Islamisme, violence, et théocratie mondiale

Donald Thoresen

5,399 words

English original here

Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds.
Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009

Parmi les gens préoccupés d’une manière ou d’une autre par l’islam, il y a une tendance à recourir à divers enseignements et citations coraniques choisis intentionnellement pour démontrer que l’islam est « bon » ou « mauvais ». Read more …