What does successful assimilation look like?
Irish immigrants to America are often held up as models of successful assimilation, so we can use their history to predict the consequences of mass immigration today. Mass Irish Catholic immigration to...
View ArticleAcquiring an immunity to magic
In the area of man’s inner life the Lengua distinguish at least four foci: (1) the -valhoc (the hyphen before a Lengua noun indicates that such a stem can never stand without a possessor, generally a...
View ArticleIn defense of all-male spaces
Originally posted as a comment here. The progressive model of normie gender relations is incomplete. On the one hand, it’s true that, under normie gender relations, men lead and women follow; but on...
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Intervocalic fortition
…was mentioned in xkcd: But this has actually happened. Blust’s compilation of highly unusual sound changes includes intervocalic fortition of *v *j *g in Kiput: Intervocalic devoicing of *g also...
View ArticleWhat would Benedict Anderson say?
First, there’s the European Court of Justice, the so-called Supreme Court of the EU. Of the 37 members listed on its site, six studied and/or taught in the United States. That’s 16%, including the...
View ArticleNational(ist) security
One of the primary goals of the Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups is to drive a wedge between Sunni Muslims and the wider world, to fuel alienation as a recruiting tool. (source) There...
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The Dravidian-Australian connection?
The indigenous languages of Australia have striking similarities in their phoneme inventories. Most have no fricatives, and none, as far as I know, have sibilants. Australian languages tend to have...
View ArticleAn unusual vowel contrast
Geoff Lindsey writes: I do think that the official IPA chart is crowded with symbols which exist not so much for good acoustic or linguistic reasons as to fill the slots implied by its tongue-space...
View ArticleAmerica’s cultural offensive throughout the world (1955)
I went looking for something in the Congressional Record and found an interesting statement relating to the Cold War. I’ve typed up the first part of it. It’s on pages 8389 and 8390 (1346 and 1347)...
View ArticleThe Soviet government’s uniformly pro-marriage position
Young Soviet marriages have a rather poor survival rate. Marriage at 19, divorce at 23–often with a young child left in the breach–is the all-too-common scenario. … A small quantity of condoms are...
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