As an honest Israeli (not American) Jew said to me, “you killed your Indians, why can’t we kill ours?”

I do like the Israeli people. They should be a living example to all of us in America.

he is one of those sad men found in every generation who value the truth above socially obligatory nonsense

Well, that is the thing. He does not value truth above socially obligatory nonsense, but the truth troubles him anyway.

Did the prog just admit that…

Well, the thing is that Alexander is not really a progressive. He was raised progressive, and he exists in a frightfully progressive society. So, he is progressive in about the same sense many men used to be Anglican. The true progressive is a woman of burning faith. Alexander is a man of science. He wants to be a progressive, doubtless, but unfortunately for him he is too smart for it. So he writes screeds to his progressive readers to tell them why he is off the reservation and that maybe, just maybe, they might reconsider a few things.

I wish him well. Unfortunately for him, if he is ever successful outside of the ghetto of freaky, smart people who read him, the progs will read him out and anathemize him. I expect he knows this, but evidently he is one of those sad men found in every generation who value the truth above socially obligatory nonsense.

Men’s rights activists have to demonize women, to rationalize the fact that treating women as equals gets you horribly burned.

That is just the way it is. Civilized behavior will not be restored until women are subordinated.

This litany is clearly wrong, because it’s missing a qualifier. It should say- if you’re smart, don’t drink much, stay out of fights, display a friendly personality, have no criminal history, and ARE A BLACK AMERICAN – then you are the population most at risk of being miserable and alone. After all, those first five traits in, say, an Asian man, are pretty much the ticket to a day job at Samsung or Huawei, a house and a wife.

This is the same realism at the base of both western political theory (Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes) and eastern (Xunzi and Hanfeizi; Confucius is deeply overrated). Nothing new about it- except that we seem to have lost sight of it. The American founding fathers understood it. Bismarck and von Metternich understood it. Liang Qichao understood it.

Do we?