Natural Selection

NATURE herself in times of great poverty or bad climactic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless. She diminishes, not the power of procreation as such, but the conservation…

I SAW ON the ’net somewhere a while back someone had posted a picture that his child had brought home from school. The picture was of a stick-figure human with various lines pointing at it with labels like sex, gender, identity, and sexual orientation. The person who posted this was complaining about…

by Guillaume Durocher Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (London: Penguin, 2004 [reprint of second edition, London: John Murray, 1879]). WESTERN INTELLECTUAL LIFE today is characterized by a marked schizophrenia. On the one hand, virtually everyone accepts the…

by David Sims THERE REMAIN VESTIGES of natural selection today, for example in the form of assortative mating. High-functioning people tend to marry high-functioning people of the opposite sex. Low-functioning people must take whatever they can get from among the leftovers. There’s still…

As part of our commitment to the celebration of forgotten classics—i.e., great works of the past which have been intentionally flushed down the memory hole by our Orwellian overlords—National Vanguard is proud to present a condensed edition of Lothrop Stoddard’s pioneering treatise The Revolt…

The history of evolutionary thought in the U.S. contains some surprises by Robert Throckmorton CYNTHIA EAGLE RUSSETT, a lecturer in American History at Yale, has written a book Darwin in America; the Intellectual Response, 1865-1912 (Freeman 1976), which demonstrates that far from making a solid,…

by Marian Van Court THIS FAMOUS SCENE from the ceiling of the Sistene 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…

by David Sims DO I HAVE a “closed mind”? No, what I’m doing is defending a truth from people who would assail it with lies. Yes, I’m a racist. But I’m also right. The word “racist” does not mean the same thing that the word “false” means. True…

by Fred Streed Note by David Sims: I like the implicit Heinlein reference in this piece (which has been slightly edited for a family audience). It’s from Heinlein’s book Time Enough for Love, in which the character Lazarus Long advises other members of his family, “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing;…