Revilo Oliver

by Revilo P. Oliver (1992) SOME Populist Parties — I know not how many — are now promoting the candidacy for the Presidency of Colonel James Gritz (pictured), who likes to be called ‘Bo,’ a mildly derisive epithet rather than a nickname. (1) If he published his Called to Serve…

by Revilo P. Oliver (1992) THERE ARE indications that our War Lord is becoming restive. A whole year has elapsed since he smashed up a nation and caused the death of several hundred thousand human beings, and he shows signs of wanting to refresh the blood on his hands by sending his mongrel myrmidons with…

by Revilo P. Oliver GIVEN THE INTEREST that readers of Liberty Bell have expressed in my article in the July issue, pp. 1-12, I now reluctantly return to the hackneyed subject of the assassination of Jackanapes Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November 1963, to clarify two points that I mentioned obiter in July.…

by Revilo P. Oliver A VERY POPULAR motion picture entitled J.F.K. has recently redirected attention to the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November 1963. It also stirred up sleeping snakes in the Dismal Swamp on the banks of the Potomac. Certain facts have been established beyond…

by Revilo P. Oliver I HAVE READ many books on the subject of Masonry, some of which contain valuable information (i.e., authentic descriptions of rituals and ceremonies), but almost all are written by Christians, who naturally are incapable of objectivity — or even rationality. (ILLUSTRATION:…

by Revilo P. Oliver IN CERTAIN circumstances (which it should be the task of an honest sociology to catalogue and define), superstition is contagious, perhaps by a psychosomatic communication analogous to the contagion of hysteria, of which a clear instance in a British girls’ school was studied…

by Revilo P. Oliver THE LONG and involved history of astrology in the West began with the imputation of the doctrine from Asia in the Hellenistic Age, when the intellectual vigor of the Greeks, sapped by internecine wars, social catastrophes, and an influx of aliens was declining, but still sufficed…

The mysterious homing instinct of animals, and the human sense of home and homeland by Revilo P. Oliver THE Manchester Guardian may have been a liberal publication when it was founded in 1821. When I first began to glance occasionally at copies of it, a hundred and thirty years later, it had already become…

Why would a geneticist endorse the palpably nonsensical equalitarian doctrines of Marxism? by Revilo P. Oliver THE Skeptical Inquirer for Spring 1992 contains an article — or, more exactly, preliminary notes for a very interesting article — by Martin Gardner, whose robust scepticism…

by Revilo P. Oliver IN MY YOUTH I met an amateur zoölogist who was studying the relative intelligence of various species of mammals, excluding men. Obviously, carnivores are more intelligent than herbivores, and he thus far had been able to observe only Felidae and Canidae. For him, intelligence was…