Not With a Bang

The Case Against Indian Immigration

A Model Minority? Most American immigration discourse focuses on basically apolitical things, such as first-order economic effects and crime. On average, immigrants to the United States lower wages, increase housing prices, drive Americans away from centers of productivity

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Fleeing Opportunity

In the 19th and 20th centuries, internal migration to productive locations was one of the biggest sources of upwards mobility and economic progress. This could be countryside to city, densely populated small farms to the huge, mechanizable expanses of the American West, or from declining towns whose economic geography no longer made sense to the bustlin…

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The Western European Marriage Pattern

What is the Western European Marriage Pattern? The Western European Marriage Pattern (WEMP) refers to a distinctive marriage pattern that seems to have developed in northwestern Europe in the 14th century after the Black Death. Given a map of Europe, you can draw a line (named the Hajnal line, after the demographer who discovered it) within which marriag…

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Mind Viruses

Are “mind viruses” real? The phrase is often attacked for lacking a rigorous definition or explanatory power, but in short, yes. There is a valid analogy between pathogens that cause various illnesses and ideas that reduce fitness or function, one that can aid in both understanding and action

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The Baby Boom

Since the beginnings of the First Demographic Transition in 1760s France, there has been a near monotonic decrease in fertility rates in affected countries, which now include every country on Earth. Birth rates in most of the Western world have been well below replacement for two generations. It seems like the inevitable price of modernity; today, almos…

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Against the Mutational Load Hypothesis: Part 3

This post is one part of a piece that was written as a single post that was split due to issues with the Substack editor (part 1, part 2). Read those first! Case Study #1: Rome The primary proponent of this hypothesis, Joseph Bronski, has claimed that the increasing leftism (feminism, sexual deviancy, mass immigration, decline of ethnocentrism, decline o…

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Against the Mutational Load Hypothesis: Part 2

Please note that due to issues with the Substack editor, I was forced to split a larger post into three pieces (part 1, part 3). Is Mutational Load a Plausible Cause for the Leftwards Shift? So mutational load has increased, and mutational load causes leftism. Ergo, genetic leftism has increased over time as a result of increasing load, making society mo…

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Against the Mutational Load Hypothesis: Part 1

Please note that this post is the first of three (part 2, part 3). These were written as a single piece, but I was forced to split them up due to issues with the Substack editor. What has caused the massive leftwards shift seen in every Western country since 1945? This shift is almost monotonic, and if we allow for brief p…

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Review of J. D. Unwin's Sex and Culture

Introduction What causes the rise and decline of nations? Geography? Climate change? Returns on complexity? Eugenics and dysgenics? Asabiyyah? These are critical questions to understanding the past and predicting the future. It is impossible to run experiments on history, and so the only available method to answer them is induction. As it happens, there …

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Memetic Evolution and Progressivism

If you’re not familiar with the concept of memetics, I’d recommend reading the wikipedia article before this post. There are two broad ways for memes to transmit: horizontal/viral and vertical/mitochondrial. Horizontal/viral is peer-to-peer (extreme example: antinatalism. Almost no one gets their antinatalism from their parents), vertical/mitochondrial i…

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