The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2016/04/03)

Ulla Bergryd, Michael Parks, Garden of Eden Scene from John Hustons The Bible: In the Beginning… (1966)

Last Week’s This Week in Reaction is finally up over at Social Matter. It was a week of a pwned pope and triggering chalk. And a whole lot more. There were a plethora of noteworthy articles. A great week in the sphere. The articles judged the most worthy were as follows:

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Honorable Mentions:

Mark Citadel (at Orthosphere): Open Letter to Pope Francis. Everything any pope should already know but that this one is unwilling to learn.

Mark Christensen: Being “Against Political Correctness” Is A Fool’s Errand. Arguing against speech codes per se is waging the culture war in the heart of enemy territory. Even if you win, you lose.

David Grant: What’s The Neoreactionary Position On Akhenaton? Grant sets down some principles for a truly neoreactionary historiography.

Thomas Barghest: A Remedy For Ressentiment. A steady-handed application of the classical virtues to a world hostile to them today. And why this is important.

Evolutionist X (series): Animism, HeLa Cells, and Mystical Flesh (part 1), part 2, and part 3. Research-rich, picture-rich, and anecdote-rich exploration of the various flavors of voodoo.

Bonald: The real reason engineers are overrepresented among Islamic terrorists (and other insufficiently progressive people). Not so much a failure to prog-indoctrinate as a selector for prog-indoctrination avoidance.

Kaiter Enless: Refuting Chomsky: Distortions, Omissions and Lies. A thorough review of Chomsky’s pattern of obfuscate, inveigle, and deceive.

Brett Stevens: Math In The Blood – Tradition Vs. Genetics. A well-argued discourse on why genes are not destiny on the small scale or individual level.

William Scott: The moral conceit of the Left. Part one of a promising series exploring the pseudo-religious psychology of progressivism.

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… And the Winner is:

Adam Wallace: The Myth of Freedom. A magisterial treatment of the modern idea of freedom, how it usually is in fact a form of slavery, and how true freedom is only attainable by the few with the power to master themselves.