...and we have a cover. Beautiful, no? After a delay due to a shift from soft to hard cover release, Not Stolen is due to hit shelves Sept 23, 2023, just in time for Columbus Day!
Jeff Fynn-Paul
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Jeff Fynn-Paul
@JeffFynnPaul
My writings have galvanized reaction to lazy anti-Western historical narratives. They have inspired the foundation of groups including History Reclaimed.
Joined September 2020
- I'm starting to realize that censuring science in the name of progressivism is always a bad idea. Take The Bell Curve. Like most academics, I thought it was tacky. Yes ''black'' IQ in the US may have been lower, but why harp on this? I firmly believe that with education,
- Replying to @danagasta1Yes, the painting is by an American illustrator who died in 1926, named Alfred Fredericks, so it's a "classic" take, one that we certainly scrutinize in the book. As for my academic background, you can look up my faculty page or on google scholar. Toronto is my alma mater.
- Is Canada returning to sanity after its bout of mass hysteria? In May 2021, Canada experienced one of the most egregious witch hunts in modern history, which led to arsonous attacks on dozens of historic churches. Even the Canadian Historical Association shamefully stoked the
- A strong sign of Not Stolen's success! It was released at the same time as Yasha Mounk's The Identity Trap; Mounk, being on his 5th popular book, has gotten much more press; yet 2 months out, both had the same healthy no. of reviews on Amazon. I'll take a bow.
- Always good to revisit the first maps in Eltis and Richardson's Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to get perspective on just how few ended up in the United States. To hear the Left talk, you'd think 90% of African slaves ended up in the US. In reality it was 2.5%. Half
- Replying to @CoachAndrewsI would suggest reading the book first, before guessing whether this is incorrect or misleading...
- Replying to @heykevcorbettCan you guess how many times in American history smallpox blankets were handed out to Natives? (Hint: one.) Read the book. The sources are there.
- I have a new piece in the @spectator today: where I wonder why almost no historians called New World adventurism "genocide" prior to about 2010, and if the rush to label it "genocide" since then has been based on peer pressure rather than facts or logic.
- I have been contacted by an increasing number of people who said that October 7 was a turning point, which made wokeness untenable for them. Litmus test: if you can justify the intentional slaughter of innocents based on the position of their group identity in your worldview,
- Again: my main beef with ''wokeness'' is not even the politics per se. It is the attempt to silence debate. This is inimical to reason, science, and democracy. It's called dogma, and publicly enforcing dogma is called totalitarianism. So I don't really have an iron in the
- Elizabeth Weiss (@weissunburied) is an important voice in Native American anthropology, one of the very few who is brave enough to argue against the ongoing (and until recently unthinkable) destruction of the scientific record. If the woke have their way, what little we can knowMy new book, On the Warpath, will be out in days! Two months ahead of schedule -- thank you @PressAcademica -- and it is the #1 new release in Physical Anthropology on Amazon. Order your copy today! a.co/d/j3kDTJw
- Three weeks before its release date, with little media fanfare at the moment, Not Stolen has sailed to the top of the Colonialism & Post-Colonialism list on Amazon. People are thirsting to hear a historian talk common sense. Thanks to all who've pre-ordered. #twitterstorians
- It seems white males, who still make up 60% of American males, are staying away from the US armed forces. Whyever might that be? Is it time to restructure the US curriculum, giving a more balanced view of US history, and the role of colonization, and of European-Americans in
