Tag Archives: Edward Dutton

The Case for Greater Male Intelligence

Posted on February 24, 2022 by leslie

The Case for Greater Male Intelligence by Dr Edward Dutton Richard Lynn, Sex Differences in Intelligence: The Developmental Theory, Arktos, London 2021, 131 pp, reviewed by Ed Dutton I have known Richard Lynn since 2012, consider myself his protégé and in 2015 we … Continue reading →

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Meet the Ancestors

Posted on April 29, 2015 by leslie

Meet the Ancestors Ed Dutton enjoys a fascinating memoir My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past . . . by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair. Translated by Carolin Sommer. 2015. Hodder and Stoughton. … Continue reading →

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Manifesto for Sad People

Posted on August 28, 2014 by leslie

Manifesto for Sad People Edward Dutton Enjoys the Definitive Application of Absurdism Adventures in Stationery: A Journey through Your Pencil Case, James Ward, 2014, Profile Books, Hardback, 280pp. The philosophical school known as Absurdism developed from the belief that life … Continue reading →

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Religion as Elementary Error, by LESLIE JONES

Posted on July 29, 2014 by leslie

Religion as Elementary Error   by Leslie Jones In a persuasive passage in Religion and Intelligence, anthropologist Dr Edward Dutton considers the category question[i]. He cites T. Rees’s definition of science, to wit, “thoughtful, sincere research”. As Dutton points out, this … Continue reading →

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Thomas D’Urfey – earthy elitist for an extravagant era EDWARD DUTTON

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Derek Turner

Thomas D’Urfey – earthy elitist for an extravagant era EDWARD DUTTON rescues a larger-than-life character from undeserved obscurity   In an extreme reaction against the Puritanism that preceded it, the English Restoration was characterized by all that the gentlemen of … Continue reading →

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Class inaction EDWARD DUTTON

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Derek Turner

Class inaction EDWARD DUTTON finds that societies tend towards social immobility The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press, 2014, hb.,   366pp In his ground-breaking 2007 book A Farewell to Alms, … Continue reading →

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When Catholics were heretics

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Derek Turner

When Catholics were heretics EDWARD DUTTON remembers the recusants God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England Jessie Childs. 2014. London, The Bodley Head. hb. 443pp. £25 Late Elizabethan England was a particularly bad time and place to be a … Continue reading →

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Warming shots

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Derek Turner

Warming shots Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future James Delingpole, London Biteback Publishing, 2012, pb., 312pp EDWARD DUTTON reviews a fiery broadside against Greenery The title Watermelons grabs the reader’s interest. … Continue reading →

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Right royal retribution

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Derek Turner

Right royal retribution The King’s Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, London: Abacus Books, 2013, 383pp, pb. EDWARD DUTTON finds he is hooked on an obscure but fascinating chapter in English … Continue reading →

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20th century tumbrils – the first victims of the Bolsheviks

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Derek Turner

20th century tumbrils – the first victims of the Bolsheviks EDWARD DUTTON enjoys a rare insight into the melancholy fate of the Russian nobility Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy Douglas Smith, Pan Books, 2013, pb, 464pp., … Continue reading →

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