Paleface: The Philosophy of the Melting Pot

Taylor and Shawn are joined by Borzoi, aka John Chapman, author of the foreword to our edition and previously published Antelope Hill author, to discuss British author and artist Wyndham Lewis’ provocative and prophetic examination of burgeoning cultural anti-Whiteness in the early 20th century, as well as its causes, manifestations, and future consequences.

Notes:

0:00 - Intro to the book and author

3:55 - Lewis’ works and relevance

9:30 - Lewis’ argument in Paleface: no one speaks for the ‘palefaces’

19:10 - Romanticism, and its value and limitations

28:42 - Science and subjectivity

38:14 - Criticisms of Lewis

45:00 - Lewis’ fascist sympathies

50:32 - Lewis’ critiques of H. L. Mencken

57:24 - Puritanism

1:06:32 - Lewis’ defense of natural hierarchy

1:15:49 - Observations on political imagination

1:22:04 - Lewis and the Jews

1:29:23 - Final thoughts

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