Here’s a new Open Thread for all of you. To minimize the load, please continue to limit your Tweets or place them under a MORE tag.

For those interested, here are my two most recent articles, both on Donald Trump and his surprising new tariff proclamations:

• President Donald Trump and Chairman Mao
  The Unz Review • April 7, 2025 • 3,800 Words
• Donald Trump’s Looney Tunes Trade Policy
  The Unz Review • April 14, 2025 • 3,800 Words

I’d also very strongly recommend this long discussion at the Hong Kong Asia Society by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University:

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Here’s a new Open Thread for all of you. To minimize the load, please continue to limit your Tweets or place them under a MORE tag.

For those interested, here are my two most recent articles, which have been attracting a great deal of readership:

• How Israel Killed the Kennedys
  The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words
• The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education
  The Unz Review • March 31, 2025 • 7,300 Words

Here’s a long podcast interview I just did yesterday covering those same subjects and it seemed to go quite well:

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Here’s a new Open Thread for all of you.

For those interested, here’s my most recent article:

• How Israel Killed the Kennedys
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words

On this same topic, here’s Laurent Guyénot’s YouTube documentary. Although it’s perhaps a little too hagiographic, I think it’s the best single video introduction to this issue:

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And despite being somewhat disorganized, I would also recommend Ryan Dawson’s complementary 2023 documentary, focusing heavily upon Israel’s nuclear weapons development program:

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Finally, conservative podcaster Candace Owens had a good 3 minute summary of the entire story:

At this stage, if you don’t fully agree that Israel Mossad was the main culprit behind JFK assassination, then you’re either blackmailed, reetarded, bribed, and/or jewish. pic.twitter.com/ZNwXepIdd6

— Machiavelli (@TheRISEofROD) March 21, 2025

Last month, Achmed E. Newman left a comment in Bugs/Suggestions:

If Mr. Sailer is really done here, then do as with the Russian guy, and have a thread once a week*. We commenters might want to still converse there. I suppose each thread could be cut off at some comment count, but they trickle off anyway, so just do it weekly. (Or iSteve could throw in a quick post to get it started each time.)

Yes, your commenting system is THE BEST.

Soon afterwards, I replied:

I’d actually been thinking of suggesting the exact same thing if Steve has indeed stopped posting here.

Things have worked out fine with the “Karlin Community” over the last couple of years and it would be easy enough for me to implement the same sort of thing for the “iSteve Community” if they were interested.

I obviously don’t want to have to moderate the comments or get someone else to do that. So what I was thinking of doing was setting things up so that all longtime isteve participants have their comments automatically approved. That would prevent interlopers from joining in and disrupting the style of the discussions with their very different sorts of views.

A couple of days later, I included this exchange in the most recent Steve Sailer thread, and seemed to generally got a very positive reaction.

Since it’s now been more than a couple of weeks since Steve’s last post, and the existing thread is well over 800 comments, I’ve added this new Open Thread. So long as interest continues, I’ll add a new one every week or two.

Moderating these iSteve comments would be a nuisance, so I’ll add a bit of code that automatically approves all comments for individuals considered established members of the “iSteve Community.” Right now, that will include all commenters who have had at least 50 approved iSteve comments since the beginning of 2024, though I can easily adjust the parameters based upon feedback. Other comments will be held in moderation, and...

From my review of the Best Picture Oscar contender Conclave in Taki’s Magazine:

Robert Harris’ heroes are clearly on the side of Vatican II. When Ralph Fiennes’s English cardinal accuses him of ambition, Stanley Tucci’s American cardinal notes that every cardinal has already picked out the name he would be known as when pope. Fiennes’ papal name, for instance, would be John XXIV.

A reader once suggested to me that the prime mover of the vast cultural revolution of the later 1960s, which in America is often attributed to the Pill, the electric guitar, the baby boom, the Vietnam War, or the assassination of JFK, was instead Pope John XXIII’s unforced decision, at the peak of the Roman Catholic Church’s prosperity and strength, to convene a council of reform:

Ever since 1789, the West, broadly, had sought a happy medium between the poles of Revolution and Reaction, and the Catholic Church represented the latter pole. In Vatican II, the Church seemed suddenly to leave the field, or indeed, seemed to throw itself on to the other pole.

But, as usual in Harris’ tales, even the bad guys get smart things to say: The right-wing Italian villain drops by the left-wing Anglo-American heroes’ lunch table to point out to the leftist English-speaking cardinals that because not even cardinals can comfortably carry on a conversation in Latin anymore, all the tables are divided up by language, unlike in the good old days before Vatican II (rather resembling Charlton Heston’s famous anecdote about how lunch on the set of Planet of the Apes was segregated by species).

Read the whole thing there.

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:

The Right’s Weird New Age
Steve Sailer

February 12, 2025

With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go?

One increasing possibility appears to be that newly self-confident right-wingers are getting into various kinds of New Age woo-woo, the occult, gnosticism, RFK Jr. junk science, paganism, Indian esotericism, Chinese numerology, health food fads, etc. …

Yet, generally speaking, in the English-speaking world, this sort of stuff has historically been associated with the left, with the friends of Chesterton’s great frenemy George Bernard Shaw. Down through the generations, the left has been more associated with the Big 5 personality trait of “openness.” Shavian socialists drove George Orwell, a leftist with a rightist pro-chud personality, crazy, as Paul Laity notes:

“Socialism,” George Orwell famously wrote in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1936), draws towards it “with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.” His tirade against such “cranks” is memorably extended in other passages of the book to include “vegetarians with wilting beards,” the “outer-suburban creeping Jesus” eager to begin his yoga exercises, and “that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”

I must admit, though, that I like fruit-juice drinking. And women in yoga pants are not the worst thing about the 21st century.

Read the whole thing there.

And with April 23, 2025 Executive Order by President Donald Trump – RESTORING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND MERITOCRACY – the march back towards eliminating anti-white racism enshrined by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 begins. Hopefully, the complete repudiation of this act (or simply ensuring white individuals are collectively protected by it).

This is why I voted for Donald J. Trump three times. Heather Mac Donald of City Journal nails it. [Trump Takes His Biggest Step Yet Toward Restoring Meritocracy: The administration’s executive order eliminating disparate-impact theory restores the 1964 Civil Rights Act to its original meaning., City Journal, April 24, 2025]:

Measured in Trump time, it took them eons to get around to it, but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore meritocracy to American society: eliminating disparate-impact theory from civil rights analysis and enforcement.

Disparate-impact theory holds that if a neutral, colorblind standard of achievement or behavior has a disproportionately negative effect on underrepresented minorities (overwhelmingly, on blacks), it violates civil rights laws. It has been used to invalidate literacy and numeracy standards for police officers and firemen, cognitive skills and basic knowledge tests for teachers, the use of SATs in college admissions, the use of grades for medical licensing exams, credit-based mortgage lending, the ability to discipline insubordinate students, and criminal background checks for employees and renters. It has been used to eliminate prosecution for a large range of crimes, including shoplifting, turnstile jumping, and resisting arrest; to end police tactics such as proactive stops (otherwise known as stop, question, and frisk); and to purge safety technologies like ShotSpotter and speeding cameras from police departments.

In none of those cases has it ever been demonstrated that the disfavored standard was implemented to exclude blacks or other...

Out of 301,000 people,St. Louis is 43 percent black/46 percent white.

And for the year 2024, four years after the joyous, unity-seeking Black Lives Matter movement triumphed nationwide courtesy of the ghost of George Floyd, what percent of homicides in St. Louis have a black suspect?

Stan Sitwell:
“The only thing I ask is, out of the 450 homes we build, one be given to a disadvantaged family from the inner city.”

Gob Bluth:
“That’s great. So the other 449 families live in fear? Is that what we’re saying?” – Arrested Development

We know Karmelo Anthony has already admitted to stabbing to death Austin Metcalf in an altercation at a high school track meet.

For those who came in late, Anthony is a black high school who was rummaging through backpacks and duffel bags of those participating in the athletic endeavor at the track meet, when Metcalf (a white high school senior who was participating in the meet) confronted him in a tent the former individual had no business seeking shelter from the sun in.

Upon being asked to leave, Anthony unsheathed a knife – you know, a common item a high school student brings to a track meet – and stabbed Metcalf to death. The final moments of Metcalf’s life would be spent gasping for breath in his twin brother’s arms.

Anthony was arrested, and a $1 million bond was set. Well, a Help Karmelo Official Fund was started on GiveSendGo, and 13,379 people have donated a total of $451,888. Oh, and a black judge lowered the bond to $250,000 and Anthony was released from jail. That should catch you up to speed with this new addition to the story. [Karmelo Anthony living with family in $900K home in gated community, bought new car after release on bond in Austin Metcalf murder case: report, NY Post, April 16, 2025]:

The Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing a high school football star at a track meet allegedly lives in a $900,000 home with his family inside a luxurious gated community — despite requesting that a judge lower his $1 million bond because of financial difficulties, according to a report.

Karmelo Anthony, 17, is holed up with his family at the pricey home inside the gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas, after he was released from...

So much of the United States of America in 2025 is built on a foundation of lies, and the mortgage is underwater. Our entire nation was remade in a horrifying Frankenstein experiment with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 let loose upon every facet of American life, and like Robert Walton trying to get to the North Pole, we finally see the macabre results.

It’s all fake. Pitiful, really. [Much of the Black middle class was built by federal jobs. That may change.: For the last several decades, federal jobs helped Black workers find stable work with guardrails to prevent bias, but mass cuts are threatening decades of upward mobility., NBC News, February 22, 2025]:

When Francine Verdine took a job as a clerk at the Internal Revenue Service in Houston in 1983, it was supposed to be a stopgap until something better came along. She didn’t expect that 42 years later, she would look back on it as the start of a rewarding career that provided growth in various management positions, upward mobility and the opportunity to build a comfortable life for her family.

“I enjoyed my career,” said Verdine, who retired in 2019. “I had no idea when I started that I could make the money I did by the time I left. It’s sad that many others’ opportunity to have a similar career could be over.”

For decades, the federal government provided both reliable jobs and guardrails to offset systemic racial bias in hiring and promotions, offering an alternative for Black workers who might be overlooked or ignored in the private sector. They played a crucial role in helping Black workers like Verdine join the middle class and thrive. But vast cuts by the Trump administration, led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, are threatening to close down that once-dependable path to financial stability.

The government, which has about 3 million employees, is the largest employer in the country. At least 75,000 of them accepted buyout offers and thousands were fired in the last...

Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer. He killed people. He ate them. He raped their dead bodies, engaging in necrophilia. He admitted to all of this. But he wanted to clear the record up about one thing he was adamant he was not: a racist.

In an interview with Richard Kessler, Dahmer set the record straight. Again, he admitted to murder, cannibalism, and being sexually aroused enough to penetrate his victims dead bodies. But, he wasn’t a racist:

He also wanted to set the record straight that he was not a racist. He says that the reason for the majority of his victims being a minority was simple location. Where he lived there was high concentration of Black and Hispanic people. He stresses that is was a simple location thing, and that he hopes “I hope that can get cleared up. [How to Interview a Cannibal]

Why bring this gruesome story up? Because anti-racism is our state religion, and even a white guy suffering from mental illness, compelled to murder, eat his victims and engage in sexual activity with their dead bodies (all actions he willingly admitted to performing) found the notion of being considered a “racist” a bridge just a bit too far to cross.

Which brings us to the Covenant High School

[Nashville Police: Trans Shooter Chose Not to Attack the Public School Where She Was Bullied So She Wouldn’t Appear Racist, Breitbart, April 3, 2025]:

The transgender-identifying woman who shot and killed six innocents at a Nashville Christian school on March 27, 2023, originally planned to shoot up another school, but abandoned that plan to avoid looking racist.

A report released by the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (NMPD) shows that in December 2018, the transgender-identifying individual begin formulating a plan to attack Creswell Middle School. She had attended Creswell during her middle school years and came away emotionally distressed.

NMPD described what she planned to do:

She drew a map from her memories of the layout of the school....

We don’t have to live this way. We really don’t.

You can just point out the reality of interracial crime and realize that 100 years ago, our ancestors in what was then a nearly 90 percent white nation had laws in place to protect the civilization white individuals collectively created from a problem that followed black people when they fled Jim Crow in the South. [National Affairs: THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION, TIME Magazine, April 21, 1958]:

THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North’s big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes.

In 1,551 U.S. cities, according to the FBI tally for 1956, Negroes, making up 10% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 30% of all arrests, and 60% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm—murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In one city after another, the figures—where they are not hidden or suppressed by politicians—reveal a shocking pattern. Items:

New York (14% Negro). Of the prisoners confined in houses of detention last year to await court disposition of their cases, 44% of the males and 65% of the females were Negroes.

Chicago (15% Negro). In 1956 twice as many Negroes as whites—1,366 to 679—were arrested on charges of murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape and robbery.

Detroit (25% Negro). Two out of three prisoners held in the Wayne County jail are Negroes. Last month 62% of. the defendants presented for trial in Recorder’s Court were Negroes. Of last year’s 25,216 arrests resulting in prosecution, excluding traffic cases, Negroes accounted for 12,919.

Los Angeles (13% Negro). In 1956 Negroes accounted for 28% of all arrests, and 48% of the arrests for homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft.

San Francisco (7% Negro). The victims in 896 of last year’s 1,564 recorded robbery cases reported...

“Do we get to win this time?” – John Rambo, Rambo: First Blood Part II

Perhaps the five-painting series of Thomas Cole, “The Course of Empire,” was 99.9 percent correct about the cycle of a nation throughout history. Not five years ago, it seemed Washington, Jefferson, Adams and every Dead White Male who had a hand in creating, building, sustaining, and driving our nation ahead were destined for the ash heap of history, with every building or street named in their honor renamed and monument removed.

It wasn’t going to stop with just those with a connection the Confederacy.

And then, on March 27, 2025, an Executive Order was issued by President Trump with the awesomely ominous title: RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY.

Ominous for who/whom, though. You see, history has no side. When you win, you get to write it. [Trump wants to restore statues and monuments. Will that happen?, NPR, March 28, 2025]:

President Trump has called on the Interior Secretary to determine whether any memorials, statues, markers or properties that fall within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize...

We will always live in the shadow of the moment Donald Trump descends the escalator of Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America. For it was in that seemingly innocuous moment the bridge to the next era of Western civilization unexpectedly built. That it could only be forged by a megalomaniac who rebelled against an elite dedicated to replacing the American people with refugees from Haiti, Somalia, Honduras and Guatemala by simply stating his intention to “Make America Great Again” is a reminder you never know what’s going to happen, or how it will happen.

But once the change occurs, you remember for some strange reason lily white Minnesota was inundated with more than 70,000 Somalians, and within a generation those new inhabitants of the state convinced the kind Nordic people there to remove the white people from their state flag and replace it with one similar to a flag from a province in Somalia.

Perhaps Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Georgia, Texas, or California is in need of hundreds of thousands of white refugees from the black-ruled, anti-white state of South Africa? If the Federal government can use non-white refuges to disrupt social capital in previously all-white cities or heavily white states, why not infuse these states with the blood of some of the finest people on earth, who face genocide from the black-run government of South Africa? [67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status, AP News, March 25, 2025]:

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States Embassy in South Africa said Thursday it received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white minority group he claims are victims of racial discrimination by their Black-led government.

The list...