Few sacred cows are venerated like the Holocaust. It has become the icon of 20th century atrocities, a symbol of the evils men can do when they are only following orders.  Holocaust memorials and museums can be found from Argentina to Uruguay and many points in between. The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into 73 […]

Over the weekend of October 14-15, 2018 Twitter suspended over 1,500 “NPC” accounts. As Kevin Roose of the New York Times explained: Last week, a trolling campaign organized by right-wing internet users spilled over onto Twitter. The campaign, which was born in the fever swamps of 4chan and Reddit message boards, involved creating hundreds of […]

Western civilization has always placed a high premium on owning one’s mistakes and making amends.  Before Christianity northern Europeans demanded wergild for injuries done to kith and kin.  This is still a wise course of action when dealing with friends and family: acknowledging an error is a vital first step towards correcting it.  But our […]

  Now that I have your attention… “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Anti-Racist Politics”, a 1989 paper by legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw, introduced the phrase “Intersectionality” to describe the ways in which Black women faced the dual burdens of racism and sexism.  Nearly thirty […]

Once Usenet hummed with a million discussions. Scientists and mathematicians contemplated the mysteries of the Universe; leather daddies and transsexuals hobnobbed with swinging Colorado couples; intellectuals pontificated on matters great and small while trolls fucked the skull of Jesus.  Today little remains save a few relics preserved in our daily language.  “FAQ”; “sock puppet;” “spam”; […]

Featured image: “Oom” (Uncle) Paul Kruger What does it mean to be “White” and how much “non-White” does it take to disqualify you?  That question has garnered a lot of discussion with the advent of DNA testing.  Is a blue-eyed blonde with 6% East Asian DNA via a half-Japanese great-grandmother a White girl or a […]

One of the American Left’s most beloved rituals is the “Owning of Privilege.”  To be an Ally in the Struggle, we are told, we must first acknowledge the many undeserved breaks we have received thanks to our European heritage.   Should we feel inclined to extended navel-gazing we can also examine how our physical fitness, heterosexuality, […]

In a quiet, unobtrusive manner to bring influence to bear At their November 8, 1913 meeting in New York’s ornate Temple Emanu-El, American Jewish Committee leaders took up the question of Leo Frank. There was unanimous assent as to Frank’s innocence, but disagreement as to how the AJC should respond.  Several members had received letters from […]

Motion for New Trial Immediately after the verdict was announced Frank’s defense team issued a statement declaring: The trial which has just occurred and which has resulted in Frank’s conviction was a farce and not in any way a fair trial. The temper of the public mind was such that it invaded the courtroom and […]

Conviction: August 26, 1913 Selected from 144 candidates, the jury deciding Leo Frank’s fate was comprised of twelve White men from various walks of life.  J.T. Ozburn was an optician and W.S. Metcalf a Georgian circulation agent; Marcellus Johenning a shop foreman and Charles Bosshardt a pressman; Atticus H. Henslee and Monroe S. Woodward salesmen […]