Author Archives: Marian Van Court

Marian Van Court

Marian Van Court is an independent scholar who has published many scholarly papers on eugenics. She has conducted original research on IQ and fertility, and was first to discover the presence of dysgenic fertility in the US for most of the 20th century.

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A Note on The Orville

Marian Van Court

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The Orville is a new science fiction/satire series created by Seth MacFarlane (Fox, 9 p.m., Thursdays). It takes place 300 years in the future, and MacFarlane is captain of a space ship, the Orville.

If Seth MacFarlane hasn’t read The Culture of Critique, he must have guessed what it has to say. Read more …

Published: October 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, satire, science fiction, the Jewish question, The Orville, TV reviews | Comments closed

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Против здорового воспроизводства:
Осмысление еврейского противодействия евгенике

Marian Van Court

John Singleton Copley, "The Copley Family," 1776

Джон Синглтон Копли, семья Копли, 1776

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English original here

История евгеники является трагедией. Основа движения зародилась в античности – вера в то, что мир стал бы гораздо лучше, если бы здоровые и умные люди имели наибольшее количество детей. Read more …

Published: April 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, eugenics, euthanasia, in Russian, in translation, John Glad, Kevin MacDonald, Marian Van Court, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, the holocaust, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Reflections on My Life as a Eugenicist, Part 4

Marian Van Court

4,259 words

Richard Lynn

Part 4 of 4

Richard Lynn

I have no recollection of when I first got in touch with Richard Lynn except to say that it was a very long time ago. I remember mailing him various papers and clippings that I thought might be helpful to him at least as early as 1980. I’ve always felt it was my “civic duty” to help Richard in any way I can, because he was, and is, the world’s foremost eugenicist. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, dysgenics, eugenics, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, Richard Lynn, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Reflections on My Life as a Eugenicist, Part 3

Marian Van Court

Abbott Handerson Thayer, My Children, detail

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Part 3 of 4

Robert Klark Graham

Robert Klark Graham invented the plastic used for shatter-proof eyeglasses, and he made a fortune. After he sold his company, he began thinking about how he could use his money to help the world. He talked at length with Hermann J. Mueller, a Nobel Prize-winner in genetics, and they came up with the idea of a sperm bank that would store and distribute the sperm of exceptional men. They named it The Repository for Germinal Choice. Read more …

Published: January 8, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Arthur Jensen, articles, chronic fatigue syndrome, David Duke, eugenics, IQ, J. Philippe Rushton, Kevin MacDonald, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, Repository for Germinal Choice, Robert Klark Graham, the Flynn Effect, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Reflections on My Life as a Eugenicist, Part 2

Marian Van Court

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Part 2 of 4

University of California, Santa Barbara

In 1975, I was excited to begin the doctoral program in Psychobiology at UCSB. It was a far cry from the excellence of Berkeley, but then so were the vast majority of other places. I had always been interested in sex differences, so I began studying the effects of pre-natal hormones on masculine and feminine behavior. Read more …

Published: January 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged academia, Arthur Jensen, articles, dysgenics, eugenics, Marian Van Court, Nathan Weyl, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Sylvia Weyl | Comments closed

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Reflections on My Life as a Eugenicist, Part 1

Marian Van Court

View of San Francisco from the UC Berkeley campus

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Part 1 of 4

One Saturday afternoon when I was 12 years old, I was at home in Memphis sitting in our den, staring into space, when my father walked into the room.

“Marian, are you aware of the fact that intelligence is largely hereditary?” he asked. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Arthur Jensen, articles, biological race differences, eugenics, IQ, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, University of California Berkeley, William Shockley | Comments closed

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Covivienda:
Una antigua idea cuyo tiempo ha llegado

Marian Van Court

Modern cohousing began in Denmark in the 1960s.

Las coviviendas modernas comenzaron en Dinamarca en la década de 1960.

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Traducción por A. Garrido. Enlace original aquí

En 1516, Sir Thomas More publicó su ahora famosa obra, Utopia. Una de sus recomendaciones fue que las viviendas fueran construidas para grupos de unas 30 familias para crear pequeñas aldeas que compartieran instalaciones comunes, comidas, y cuidado de los niños. Read more …

Published: August 8, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, bofaellsskaber, cohousing, eugenics, in Spanish, in translation, living well, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, white self-sufficiency | Comments closed

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Cohousing:
An Ancient Idea Whose Time has Come

Marian Van Court

Modern cohousing began in Denmark in the 1960s.

2,812 words

Spanish translation here

In 1516, Sir Thomas More published his now-famous work, Utopia. One of his recommendations was that housing be constructed for groups of about 30 families in order to create small villages which share common facilities, dinners, and child care. Read more …

Published: August 7, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, bofaellesskaber, cohousing, eugenics, living well, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, white self-sufficiency | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 123
Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 5

Marian Van Court

41:10 / 115 words

Part 5 of 5

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The conclusion of Marian Van Court’s 1986 interview with Arthur Jensen. Topics include: Read more …

Published: April 28, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Arthur Jensen, Counter-Currents Radio, education, intelligence testing, interviews, IQ, Jensen interview, Marian Van Court, podcasts | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 119
Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 4

Marian Van Court

43:14 / 221 words

Part 4 of 5

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Marian Van Court’s 1986 interview with Arthur Jensen continues. Topics include: Read more …

Published: April 14, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Arthur Jensen, Counter-Currents Radio, education, intelligence testing, interviews, IQ, Jensen interview, Marian Van Court, podcasts, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 116
Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 3

Marian Van Court

39:16 / 80 words

Part 3 of 5

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Published: April 7, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Arthur Jensen, Counter-Currents Radio, education, intelligence testing, interviews, IQ, Jensen interview, Marian Van Court, podcasts, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 113
Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 2

Marian Van Court

91 words

Part 2 of 5

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Marian Van Court’s 1986 interview with Arthur Jensen continues. Read more …

Published: March 31, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged Arthur Jensen, Counter-Currents Radio, education, intelligence testing, interviews, IQ, Jensen interview, Marian Van Court, podcasts | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 110
Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 1

Marian Van Court

47:56 / 144 words

Part 1 of 5

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In 1986, Marian Van Court recorded three 90-minute tapes of an interview with Arthur Jensen (1923–2012), professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Arthur Jensen, Counter-Currents Radio, dysgenics, eugenics, Flynn Effect, intelligence testing, interviews, IQ, Jensen interview, Marian Van Court, podcasts | Comments closed

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Heretical Thoughts on Abortion & Eugenics

Marian Van Court

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Hugo Simbert, The Wounded Angel, 1903

Once I saw an interview with a woman whose child had cystic fibrosis. The child was forced to endure long medical treatments every day just to stay alive. Tests showed early in the pregnancy that her baby would be afflicted with cystic fibrosis, but the woman decided not to abort because, she said, “I figured that I’d rather have a life with health problems than no life at all.” Read more …

Published: March 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged abortion, articles, eugenics, family planning, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, Planned Parenthood | Comments closed

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Finding Your Soul Mate with the Utmost Efficiency

Marian Van Court

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One useful thing to come out of social psychology is the discovery that spouses who are very similar get along much better, and are far less likely to divorce, and it’s fairly easy to measure these traits (like introversion-extroversion) and make predictions. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, eHarmony, finding a mate, living well, Marian Van Court, marriage, Neil Clark Warren, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
Fear of a Brighter Future

Marian Van Court

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1. Lately, the issue of over-population has pretty much gotten drowned out by other problems in the world. But wouldn’t well-educated people be more likely to know about it, and take it seriously, than poorly-educated people? Read more …

Published: September 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ask a Eugenicist, birth control, dysgenics, environmentalism, eugenics, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, overpopulation, political correctness | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
Science vs. Public Opinion

Marian Van Court

Frederick Childe-Hassam, The Sonata

968 words

It seems like there’s a total “disconnect” on this issue [eugenics] between science on the one hand, and popular opinion, on the other.

You’re absolutely right. There are two arenas in which the Nature-Nurture debate is taking place – the scientific one, and the public one – and the outcomes are exactly opposite. Read more …

Published: September 10, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ask a Eugenicist, biological determinism, eugenics, hereditarianism, intelligence, IQ, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, nuture, originals, social constructionism, twin studies | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
Interview with Robert Klark Graham

Marian Van Court

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Editor’s Note:

Robert K. Graham (1906–1997) was co-founder and director of The Repository for Germinal Choice, a California-based sperm bank which stored and distributed the sperm of Nobel Prize winners and other men of exceptional ability. He invented and manufactured the plastic used for shatter-proof eye glasses and was author of The Future of Man. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged artificial insemination, eugenics, Hermann J. Muller, interviews, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, Repository for Germinal Choice, reprints, Robert Graham, William Shockley | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
Interview With Raymond B. Cattell

Marian Van Court

3,413 words

Editor’s Note:

The following interview with Raymond Cattell (1905–1998) was originally published in The Eugenics Bulletin, Spring–Summer 1984.

Raymond B. Cattell obtained his Ph.D. and D.Sc. at London University, where he worked with Charles Spearman developing the theory of intelligence measurement. Read more …

Published: August 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged alienation, Ask a Eugenicist, Beyondism, creativity, democracy, diversity, dominance, dysgenics, education, eugenics, evolution, feminism, genetic determinism, group selection, individualism, intelligence, interviews, IQ, Marian Van Court, morality, multiculturalism, non-white immigration, North American New Right, Raymond Cattell, religion, reprints, transhumanism, welfare | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
Implementing a Eugenics Program

Marian Van Court

Charles West Cope, A Life Well Spent

675 words

Even though I believe in eugenics, I really have no idea how it should be implemented. It seems so complicated, and it could be abused. What would a model eugenics program even look like?

When we envision launching a new eugenics program in the West, we need to consider what is effective, what is morally right, and what will be accepted by the public. We can make great strides towards helping future generations with no Draconian measures whatsoever, just a combination of incentives and disincentives. Read more …

Published: August 19, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged abortion, articles, Ask a Eugenicist, birth control, eugenics, involuntary sterilization, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, sterilization | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
The Repository for Germinal Choice

Marian Van Court

wright_joseph_a_philosopher_lecturing_with_a_mechanical_planetary

Joseph Wright, A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary, 1766

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Whatever happened to the Repository for Germinal Choice? I read that it closed in 1999, but were the children born from this program ever studied?

All prospective parents signed statements promising that they would take part in surveys in the future, Read more …

Published: August 13, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, artificial insemination, Ask a Eugenicist, David Plotz, eugenics, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, Repository for Germinal Choice, Robert Graham, sperm banks, William Shockley | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
What is Intelligence & Can It be Measured?

Marian Van Court

900 words

1. What is intelligence?

One simple, straightforward definition of intelligence is is “problem-solving ability.” Another definition is “that which IQ tests measure.” Read more …

Published: August 6, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ask a Eugenicist, dysgenics, eugenics, intelligence, IQ, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist
The Sterilization Question

Marian Van Court

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In the British Medical Journal (# 7108, September 6, 1997, p. 563) there’s an article entitled “Thousands of women sterilized in Sweden without consent.” The Swedish government is investigating why thousands of women were forcibly sterilized on eugenic grounds from the 1930s to the 1970s. Read more …

Published: August 1, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ask a Eugenicist, dysgenics, eugenics, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, sterilization | Comments closed

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Ask a Eugenicist

Marian Van Court

974 words

Editor’s Note

Because of the very positive responses to Marian Van Court’s recent essays on eugenics, we are running a multi-part series called “Ask a Eugenicist.” If you have other questions for Marian, please post them as comments below or email me at [email protected]. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged abortion, articles, Ask a Eugenicist, birth control, dysgenics, equality, eugenics, intelligence, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, Obamacare, originals | Comments closed

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The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell

Marian Van Court

Abbot Handerson Thayer, 1849–1921, Experience

4,593 words

The Encyclopedia Britannica defines eugenics as “the organic betterment of the race through wise application of the laws of heredity.” Yet most people draw a blank when they hear the word, or else it conjures up images of swastikas and jack‑booted Nazis. Contrary to this warped image, eugenics has had a long history, extending back to ancient Rome and beyond.

Eugenics is concerned with the current direction of human evolution. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, dysgenics, eugenics, evolution, intelligence, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, reprints | Comments closed

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Evolution, Eugenics, & God’s Will

Marian Van Court

2,691 words

This famous scene from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel has recently been interpreted in a startling new way. After it was cleaned and restored, the original details were revealed. The vehicle in which God is traveling, along with God himself, all the angels, the sashes, etc., conform remarkably well to the structures of a human brain (turned sideways, facing Adam). Read more …

Published: July 18, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, cosmotheism, dysgenics, eugenics, evolution, Marian Van Court, Michelangelo, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Richard Lynn | Comments closed

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Against Good Breeding:
Understanding Jewish Opposition to Eugenics

Marian Van Court

John Singleton Copley, The Copley Family, 1776

8,356 words

Russian translation here

The story of eugenics has been a tragedy. The basic idea goes back to antiquity – the belief that the world would become a much better place if healthy and intelligent people had the most children. But in the 20th century, in a bizarre and mysterious twist of fate, something went terribly wrong, and what began as an altruistic movement to help future generations ended in the barbaric murder of millions. Read more …