Women and civilizational collapse Complaints of “toxic” workplaces. Mass hiring of diversity-equity-inclusion commissars. Open-borders immigration sold to the public with tear-jerking images of refugee children. Trans mania spreading everywhere from kindergarten classrooms to corporate C-suites. Personal pronouns in work email signatures. White women kneeling in prayerful mass protests after yet another African-heritage male with … Continue reading "MISTRESSES OF MISRULE"| Thoughts of Stone
Don’t overlook social stratifications This is a just a brief, minor note about an aspect of human populations that seems to be overlooked much of the time in popular discourse, namely the existence within countries of distinct strata of individuals. In discussions about the United States, this stratification is less overlooked, given the country’s … Continue reading "THE STRATA OF NATIONS"| Thoughts of Stone
The Great Awokening as a social mania In prior essays on this site and elsewhere, I’ve argued that the spread of wokeness and its recent marked intensification (the “Great Awokening”) is best seen as a social contagion—of feelings and sociocultural ideas that broadly reflect women’s maternal instincts, and are much more transmissible among women than … Continue reading "A SPIRALING FRENZY"| Thoughts of Stone
The Great Awokening may be catastrophic for the USA but as a cultural phenomenon it is inherently transitory| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Munkácsi Castle (Palanok Castle) rises above Mukachevo, Ukraine, symbolizing the historic presence of the Hungarian minority in the region. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munkacsivar.jpg. Licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.) By Luca Mórocz (”Lucy”) Why do ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, continue to maintain a strong national Hungarian identity and attachment to Hungary within the context of conflict […]| American University: Journal of International Service
You can certainly use a watch as a hammer, but that doesn’t change the nature of what the watch is and what it’s made for| Justin N. Poythress
Imaan Wright explains our new Fairer Finances research on on the interaction between our ethnicity, money and mental health.| Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
Equality watchdog suggests government could consider reintroducing equal pay questionnaires in its response to a call for evidence.| Personnel Today
Tomb of a metic woman from Piraeus.| Classics at the Intersections
This is the final of three lectures I gave between July 9-13, 2019 as the Onassis Lecturerat the CANE Summer Institute held at Brown University. The theme of the institute was "E Pluribus Unum". The first lecture (on identities in the ancient Greek world) has been posted previously here. The second lecture (on Athenian anti-immigrant policies and ideas) has been posted previously here.| Classics at the Intersections
This is the second of three lectures I gave between July 9-13, 2019 as the Onassis Lecturerat the CANE Summer Institute held at Brown University. The theme of the institute was "E Pluribus Unum". The first lecture has been posted previously here.| Classics at the Intersections
Over then next few weeks, I will be posting up the text and images from a series of lectured I gave between July 9-13, 2019 at the CANE Summer Institute held at Brown University. The theme of the institute was "E Pluribus Unum". I was invited as the Onassis Lecturer to give a three lecture series on the theme. The lectures focus on ancient Greece and move from a general overview of identity in the Greek world (e pluribus plures), then to a deep dive looking at Athenian rejection of broader id...| Classics at the Intersections
According to this chart, I am Roman and I plan on applying for an Italian passport now. As some readers of this blog know, I am curren...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
With the explosion of genetic ancestry testing, more and more Americans are connecting with new parts of their ethno-racial identities. But does a White suburban New Yorker finding out they are 4% Cherokee make them Indigenous? If they believe it does, what are the implications for our everyday understandings of racial identity? A new article […]| Articles – Contexts
It does not seem like an exaggeration to say that the difference in older White and Black Americans’ health is shocking.| crr.bc.edu
What is the connection between Marxist thinking, Critical Race Theory, and actions by churches (including the Church of England) to address the perceived experience of racial injustice? The question is contested, but it is not straightforward, since Critical Race Theory has a complex intellectual history, and the underlying assumptions in the debates about race and| Psephizo
“That’s right. Since I’m from Southern Xinjiang I know that I’ll never be able to find a job,” Kaiser told the Han taxi driver in Mandarin. “If you don’t have connections, you won’t even be considered for jobs. This country doesn’t serve the needs of the ‘common people.’” Kaiser used the term “lǎobǎixìng 老百姓” — or “old 100 names” — to refer to the predicament of the common people. Of course, the surnames that belong to these “old 100” — Wang,...| art of life in chinese central asia
their birth parents their birth culture including food their birth race and/or ethnicity other adoptees of the same race AND ethnicity celebrities and characters that look like them ... you fucked up....| Tumblr
The rise of wokeness, ESG, the trans mania, etc. is all due to women’s new power in institutions| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Thoughts on another miscarriage of justice in the broken USA| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Who’s afraid of black nationalism?| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Americans’ conspiracy theories are blue pills| thoughtsofstone.github.io
An expatriate’s perspective on pan-ethnic mass immigration| thoughtsofstone.github.io
