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• Trump vs. Harvard in an Political Wrestling Match
  The Unz Review • April 21, 2025 • 6,700 Words
• American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part I – The Man
  The Unz Review • April 28, 2025 • 12,700 Words

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• 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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• 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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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.

A headline from the Chicago CBS affiliate puts it bluntly, but leaves out the punchline: Chicago faces DOJ probe over alleged racial bias in hiring practices

Who/whom is being impacted by racial bias in the black mayor’s administration in Chicago? White people, which is specifically what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to create. Look no further than Atlanta under the control of the city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He bragged about creating a black millionaire class via Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) programs, which basically mandated the city work exclusively with black contractors.

It was all illegal. It was all racial discrimination, and the Hartsfield International Airport is basically a Petri dish for massive lawsuits against majority black contractors/black-owned businesses who have unfairly benefited from this practice, with a much needed airport on the Northside of the city on permanent hiatus because of what it would do to this racially bias pipeline (cut it off entirely and see most flyers chose that airport over the one nestled in the blackest part of Fulton/Clayton County).

Pretty much every city with a black mayor has since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 operated without legal oversight as Atlanta has, creating an artificial black middle class filled almost entirely of a black bureaucracy/black city employees/connect majority-owned black business unfairly benefiting from minority set-aside contracts.

Foolishly, Chicago’s black mayor bragged about it in 2025, a year Noticing is going not only going viral, but public. And the pushback is in its infancy. [DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments, ABC7Chicago, May 20, 2025]:

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the City of Chicago to determine whether Mayor Brandon Johnson or others have engaged in “a pattern or practice of racial discrimination” in their...

This era is going to end. A lot of hard truths are so obvious, but to speak what’s on the tip of so many tongues puts one in the crosshairs of a fanatical religion, a theology without a God offering no chance of salvation or forgiveness. Ideologically, this religion seeks to create a hell on earth and to deviate even slightly in the state-mandated devotion to these insidiously inspired teachings is a heretical act.

So many great individuals have been consumed by the tumultuous onslaught wrought upon them for daring to notice the inconsistencies persistent with this religion, but nonetheless, to borrow a phrase from Jurassic Park, “nature finds a way.”

The proper sobriquet for this epoch has yet to be conceived, but it’s going to end. When a report can be published brandishing so many hilarious observations confirming the exact opposite point the published paper is trying to make, you realize vastly more individuals than you can comprehend have the same truths on the tips of their tongues.

Here’s a quick breakdown of pertinent facts surrounding Atlanta’s demographic situation over the past century:

In 1910, Atlanta was 66% white.

In 1950, Atlanta was 63% white.

In 1970, Atlanta was 49% white.

In 1990, Atlanta was 30% white.

In 2025, Atlanta is 38% white.

So what happened to cause such extreme White Flight from Atlanta? It’s quite easy to explain, but one becomes a heretic for voicing such incontestable realities because such direct line of communication is verboten in The Current Year:

• Black Crime
• Black Dysfunction
• Black Anti-Social Behavior
• Drop in property value as Black people moved into previously predominately White communities
• Decline in quality of schools, fear of safety for your children as racial demographics changed
• Cost of doing business increased (need for more security due to crime and theft at stores)
• Decrease in quality of public services and amenities (parks unsafe for families/public transportation experiences...

Checking in on how life is like for those White people still keeping the lights on in South Africa. It’s been 31 years since Apartheid ended and the turn-key country the White minority handed over to black majority rule has become a criminal dystopia beyond even the predictions of the most savagely pessimistic about the possible outcomes democracy would inevitably yield.

Though it’s Africa’s most developed country, the nation boasts one of the highest violent crime rates in the world – each day there is an average of 75 homicides and 400 robberies – which is the primary reason 2.7 million individuals are employed in private security:

Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with 16,213 in 2012-2013. South Africa’s homicide rate in 2022-2023 was 45 per 100,000 people, compared with a rate of 6.3 in the United States and around 1 in most European countries.

President Donald Trump’s Administration has offered Afrikaners, a besieged White portion of the dwindling White population of South Africa, the opportunity to seek refuge in the United States. A few score arrived on May 12, 2025, while more than 70,000 Afrikaners have expressed interest in asylum in the USA.

This number will only increase. Why?

Well, while highways across America are littered with billboards advertising restaurants, personal injury lawyers, and Buc-ees, the billboards in South Africa have a far more macabre intent when it comes to a marketing message. [Armoured Mobility Declares War on Hijackers with Bold New Billboard: “Say ‘Tsek to Hijack” UNAPOLOGETIC. UNSTOPPABLE. UNCOMPROMISING., ABRBuzz.co.za, December 12, 2024]:

Armoured Mobility, South Africa’s leading innovator in bulletproof vehicle solutions, has once again raised the bar with its fearless new billboard campaign. Located in...

Previously on SBPDL: Sixteen years. Roughly 16 years ago in a beautiful living room probably 20 miles from Greenbriar Mall, this site was born. There was no grandiose plan for a goofy site lampooning Stuff White People Like. But for some reason, the site grew in popularity and gained a following on the old blog spot platform of Google. Then something horrific happened. Call it kismet, but a friend I grew up was murdered probably 18 miles from Greenbriar Mall in Midtown Atlanta. She was White | her murderer was black. He shot her and two other White girls because he had learned about White privilege in college and decided racial vengeance was the only way for true accountability over perceived historical iniquities. He was told the collective privilege of another racial group was something he should covet. He was rapacious in exacting equity upon White individuals who benefited from something he had not, or so he had been taught.

You rarely hear the 10th Commandment invoked anymore – Thou Shall Not Covet – but in a multiracial society, certain inequalities emerge. Thus the whole concept of disparate impact and the enforcement of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administered in public and private companies. Even a vocation/avocation such as earning the title of master sommelier which produces an insufficient amount of diversity among its elitist ranks of 0enophiles has its legitimacy questioned for the paucity of a particular racial group.

Covetousness is truly what the entire situation in South Africa comes down to, right? One racial group has democratic control of a nation courtesy of democracy being nothing more than a racial headcount, and are handed a turn-key nation built, established and maintained by the White minority. 31 years later, the nation is on the verge of collapse, the great multiracial experiment a failure with every White farmer murdered and a land expropriation bill passed allowing the black government to confiscate White owned land...

“We have not called for the killing of white people — at least for now. I can’t guarantee the future.”Asked by the interviewer whether this was not an invocation towards genocide, Malema’s dismissive response was “crybabies, crybabies”. If things “continue the way they are”, nothing is off the table. – Julius Malema, June 14, 2018

No, you won’t see many White liberals sporting trendy Ukrainian flags or Refugees Welcome signs in their perfectly manicured lawns racing out to embrace Afrikaners brought to our nation so as to escape an ever-unfolding tragedy in post-Apartheid South Africa. You see, for most people, South African history starts and stops with the 1994 Democratic elections that saw Nelson Mandela and the ANC sweep into power, the promise of a multi-racial future glorified by Clint Eastwood in a seemingly forgotten movie about Afrikaners love for rugby called Invictus.

But there’s something remarkable happening in 2025 America. And in a mask off moment for those paying attention. [ANC rejects US decision to grant refugee status to 49 Afrikaners, SABCNews.com, May 13, 2025]:

The African National Congress (ANC) has rejected the US decision to grant refugee status to 49 Afrikaners moving to the United States.

The UN has not ruled that the group has refugee status.

This comes as the Trump administration decided to consider applications from Afrikaners after the US President claimed genocide against the group was taking place in South Africa.

The government in South Africa has strongly rejected the accusation.

ANC National Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri agrees with the South African government’s position.

“Let it be categorically stated that there are no Afrikaner refugees in South Africa. No section of our society is hounded, persecuted, or subject to ethnic victimization. These claims are a fabrication and a cowardly political construct designed to delegitimize our democracy and insult...

Forty prior charges, all before the age of 30. Alexander Dickey, a black male, had led quite the life of crime. One wonders when the collective power of white privilege will be used as justification for the criminal choices Dickey made and the sorrowful life of perpetual immiseration he suffered? Would a lawyer framing his defense around this case of the collective power of systemic inequality and implicit bias behind Dickey’s decision to commit crime after crime after crime after crime, culminating in the execution of 22-year-old Logan Federico (a White female) as she slept, find sympathetic ears among a group of 12 individuals ready to engage in a jury nullification?

Inevitably, we slouch toward this scenario in a nation committed to restorative justice and large swaths of the population convinced the criminal justice system is racist and exists to carry on the legacy of Jim Crow.

But for now, a family must bury their daughter. Their sister. Their cousin. Friends must say goodbye, because our society is enamored with the possibility an asset is present, and not a liability. [Swiftie college coed was executed as she slept by ‘career criminal’ who broke in then went on shopping spree with her credit cards: cops, NY POST, May 11, 2025]:

An aspiring teacher and devoted Swiftie was executed as she slept by a “career criminal” who stole her credit cards and went on a shopping spree, cops said.

And her heart-broken father says he’s still waiting for her to reply to his last text message to her, “goodnight, I love you.”

College coed Logan Federico, 22, of Waxhaw, NC, was visiting friends in Columbia, SC on May 3 when a prowler broke into a rental house, swiped her credit cards, and gunned her down, the Columbia Police Department said in a press conference.

A student at South Piedmont Community College,...

You won’t see this data breakdown in the New York Times or the New York Post.

It should be noted in 2024 New York City, blacks represent 24.3 percent of population, Hispanics 29.1 percent, and Asians 14.1 percent. Whites are 32.1 percent of the city’s population.

For those homicide suspects arrested, 94.5 percent were black, Hispanic, or Asian in New York City for 2023. These statistics come courtesy of the 2024 Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City:

Note there were more white victims of homicide in 2024 New York City than suspects, meaning interracial murder were primarily non-white on white.

Also;

• 96 percent of robbery suspects arrested in 2024 New York City were non-white (56.5 percent black).
• 93.5 percent of rape suspects arrested in 2024 New York City were non-white (42.5 percent black).
• 99 percent of shooting suspects arrested in...

About 18 years ago, I discovered Frasier. Too young when it aired to truly understand, and never getting into the weirdness of Cheers in syndication (the ultimate baby boomer show depicting a Boston seemingly all-white, untouched by The Great Migration, bussing riots or Immigration Act of 1965), the WASPy world of of Dr. Frasier Crane, and his brother, Dr. Niles Crane, was absolutely engrossing.

The actors, the erudite writing, the multiple season arcs, the hilarious ensemble cast with recurring cameos, and the all-too-pleasing Whiteness of Seattle represented the purest expression of the American sitcom. You wanted to be a resident of Elliot Bay Towers and share an elevator ride with Frasier just to catch a whiff of his latest fumble in the dating world.

Kelsey Grammer is Frasier, perfectly cast as an elitist, privileged WASP, navigating through a world through of rubes and proles he hopes to dispense wisdom upon to truly enjoy “good mental health.”

Before he died of cancer, my late friend Colin Flaherty and I were talking on the phone about the George Floyd riots, the chaos engulfing the entire nation due to black riots, and COVID. He had confided in me how bad the cancer outlook was for him, and he requested a change in subject. “Big man, you’ll handle it all in due time. Your singular focus on this issue is going to inspire the turn at some point. I won’t be around to see it, so tell me something I don’t know about you and your family.”

I paused, trying to fight back tears knowing he had just told me of the death sentence he had been given, and said, “Well, I’m watching a lot of Frasier at night.”

Colin was probably smoking one of his trademark cigars in this moment, because he took longer than usual to say, “You know…”

Another pause (another puff of cigar).

“You know, Kelsey Grammer’s dad and sister were both killed by blacks.”

What?

“Yeah… his dad was...