Classic Essays

by Revilo P. Oliver Atheism and Pessimism IF YOU SEARCH the annals of mankind for a parallel to the strict materialism and concomitant atheism that is the premise of a very large part of the dominant thought of our time and simply taken for granted by many of our best minds, you will find the closest parallel…

A Cosmotheist lecture never before transcribed by Dr. William L. Pierce THURSDAY, as some of you may know, I was out of the office, because I had to go to a juvenile court. My two sixteen year-old sons — it was a relatively minor thing — had been riding with some girls in the back of a pick-up truck…

by Dr. William L. Pierce introduced and with an afterword by Kevin Alfred Strom
May, 1993 WHAT IS one element that binds together those recent victims of government terrorism, the “Branch Davidians” and Randy Weaver; which also binds together such victims of government murder squads…

by Revilo P. Oliver ONE SEES from time to time in the press muted reports that all is not well in Poland. There have even been photographs of shipyards and factories that have been closed since the beatitude of “democracy” was bestowed on that unhappy land. One has to infer that the Americans’…

A Cosmotheist lecture never before transcribed by Dr. William L. Pierce I WANT TO talk to you some more this evening about ethics and about behavior, in particular about the way in which we should behave. Last week we saw a couple of interesting films on man’s origins and on animal behavior, and let me remind…

by Revilo P. Oliver (Liberty Bell, September 1991) IN THE Liberty Bell for September 1990, my attention was particularly caught by Nicholas Carter’s italicized statement about the early history of Christianity: “we simply do not know what happened during the first hundred years or…

How the small feed on the great “Mit euch, Herr Doktor, zu spazieren, Ist ehrenvoll and bringt Gewinn.” — Goethe’s Faust Julius Frauenstaedt (1813-1879) IT WAS NOT a great event in the history of diplomacy and promotion. The Frankfurt newspapers of July 24, 1846, did not…

IN 1976, Penthouse magazine, an international pornographic monthly, edited by an Italian and published in London and New York, ran two interesting articles by a Manchester Guardian correspondent, stating that the 1967 Arab-Israeli war was a joint Israeli-CIA operation and that the U.S.S. Liberty…

by Revilo P. Oliver LAST AUTUMN the Christian Science Monitor devoted a full page to what would have been a ‘scoop’ in the old days of independent and competitive journalism. It predicted that on the first of January 1989, William F. Buckley, Jr., would retire from active management of…

by James Bovard TODAY IS the 23rd anniversary of the killing of Vicki Weaver. Following is an article I wrote on this back in 1995, followed by the response from FBI director Louis Freeh, which claimed that I “grossly mischaracterized” the details of Vicki Weaver’s killing. (ILLUSTRATION: Randy and…