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LONGER WRITINGS BY JOHN J. RAY
Nearly all of the articles below were written fairly early in the 21st century so that does show a little at times. I think their relevance continues, however. My shorter writings are more recent
ALPHABETICAL LIST (For starters)
Abortion: Only conservatives care
Abraham Lincoln: Fascist
American roots of Fascism
Arab Fascism and Saddam Hussein
Atkins diet controversy
Authoritarianism is Leftist, not Rightist
Authoritarianism is Leftist, not Rightist (Short summary version)
"Authoritarianism" research -- a plain English summary
Billig's racism accusations
Book review of "Race differences in intelligence: An evolutionary analysis" by Richard Lynn
Brainless Leftists
Christian authoritarianism and Leftist authoritarianism
Churchill an antisemite and a Fascist?
Confusing the leaders and the led in politics
Conservatism as Heresy (Book -- also here)
Corruption of science
Credulous "Skeptical Inquirer"
Deconstructing Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
Detecting racism by brain scans
Does culture matter?
Down with education
Elites tend Left
Eugenics and the Left
Friedrich Engels: Racist and German nationalist
Genetics, race and IQ
Hate, hate-speech and hate-crimes
Irrelevance of the Status of Oughts
Is the term "liberal" still meaningful?
Happiness, money and politics
Historical origins and modern psychology of Anglo-Saxon conservatism (Book)
History of German liberty
History versus psychology in explaining the Left/Right divide
Hitler was a socialist
Human nature and its denial
Immigration and conservatism: With particular emphasis on the Hispanic influx into the USA
John Rawls: Theory rampant
Kruglanski's "Need for Closure" concept
Leftism as comedy: Comment on the "Berkeley" study of conservatism
Leftism as psychopathy
Leftism in the churches
Leftist racism
Leftists are born that way: Summary of the genetics evidence
Most morality is instinctive
Motivations of Political Leftists (Book)
My shortest essay on Leftism
My second shortest essay on Leftism
Mussolini's Fascism as a precursor to modern Leftism
Non-Leftist moral naturalism
Peaceniks, Vietnam and the fading of nationalism
Peak oil theory and the ethanol alternative to gasoline
Political Psychology, Right and Left
Politics: One dimension or two?
Post-modernism and morality
Psychology of anti-Americanism
Psychology underlying Leftism
Race, racism and stereotyping
Racism: Why I steer a middle way
Similarities between Scots and Jews
Social dominance orientation: Theory or artifact?
Status-quo still relevant?
Unicorn concepts in psychology
Sweden: Fascism in slow motion
Theodore Roosevelt: Leftist
Translating the German of Marx, Engels and Hitler
Understanding women
Van Hiel's psychology of conservatism
What are Leftists?
Why I am a libertarian conservative
Why two world wars were fought
EXPLANATION
I have written over 300 papers for the academic journals, the great majority of which were published. See here for a list of the published ones and here for a list of the unpublished ones. This page is devoted to writings outside the academic journal literature.
I have written two books, one about conservatism and one about Leftism. The first was published in paper form in 1974 but is now out of print. It is however available in full online. It is called "Conservatism as Heresy". Go here or here for the Table of Contents.
My second book is an internet document only. It was developed gradually from 2002 to 2011 and may still be added to as suitable content comes to hand. Unlike printed books or articles, internet documents are not forever fixed in what they say. Revisions are quick and easy. My second book is called "The Motivations of Political Leftists". It can be accessed here. Because it is a very large book it is divided into two major parts which are accessed separately (the link to access the second part is of course given at the end of the first part). In addition to the two major parts, however, there are at various points in the book links which lead the reader to discussions of relevant topics that seem to require consideration in their own right. One such "side issue" is in fact essentially a book in its own right. It is called "The historical origins and modern psychology of Anglo-Saxon conservatism" and it is available here.
I list below the other "side issue" topics that are considered in addition to the main treatment of Leftism:
Mussolini's Fascism as a precursor to modern Leftism
Hitler was a socialist
The American roots of Fascism
Theodore Roosevelt: Leftist
Leftism as psychopathy
Leftist racism
Christian authoritarianism and Leftist authoritarianism
Eugenics and the Left
Leftism in the churches
Why elites tend Left
Hate, hate-speech and hate-crimes
The history of German liberty
Post-modernism and morality
Leftists are born that way: Summary of the genetics evidence
Genetics, race and IQ
The psychology of anti-Americanism
Arab Fascism and Saddam Hussein
Politics: One dimension or two?
The Leftist "naked" demonstration.
Sweden: Fascism in slow motion
John Rawls: Theory rampant
Human nature and its denial
Full citation details for all references used in the book
Because the main book on Leftism is a large one, I have also on various occasions constructed abridged versions of it or extracted selections from it. These are as follows:
Is the status-quo still relevant?
What are Leftists?
Political Psychology, Right and Left
The Psychology underlying Leftism
History versus psychology in explaining the Left/Right divide
Authoritarianism is Leftist, not Rightist
Authoritarianism is Leftist, not Rightist (Short summary version)
Confusing the leaders and the led in politics
Abortion: Only conservatives care
Peaceniks, Vietnam and the fading of nationalism
I also have some essays on Leftism and Leftist theories that are not derived from the book:
My shortest essay on Leftism
My second shortest essay on Leftism
Is the term "liberal" still meaningful?
Leftism as comedy: Comment on the "Berkeley" study of conservatism
"Authoritarianism" research -- a plain English summary
Social dominance orientation: Theory or artifact?
Van Hiel's psychology of conservatism
Kruglanski's "Need for Closure" concept
Deconstructing Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
And some other articles:
Racism: Why I steer a middle way
Book review of "Race differences in intelligence: An evolutionary analysis" by Richard Lynn
Brainless Leftists
Detecting racism by brain scans
Non-Leftist moral naturalism
Most morality is instinctive
Similarities between Scots and Jews
The credulous "Skeptical Inquirer"
Billig's racism accusations
Down with education
The Atkins diet controversy
Understanding women
Race, racism and stereotyping
Does culture matter?
Peak oil theory and the ethanol alternative to gasoline
Why I am a libertarian conservative
Unicorn concepts in psychology
Abraham Lincoln: Fascist
Was Churchill an antisemite and a Fascist?
Immigration and conservatism: With particular emphasis on the Hispanic influx into the USA
Translating the German of Marx, Engels and Hitler
Peaceniks, Vietnam and the fading of nationalism
The Irrelevance of the Status of Oughts
The corruption of science
Why two world wars were fought
Review by Pryce-Jones of Buchanan's book on Churchill
Index page for this site
DETAILS OF REGULARLY UPDATED BLOGS BY JOHN RAY:
"Tongue Tied"
"Dissecting Leftism" (Backup here)
"Australian Politics"
"Education Watch International"
"Political Correctness Watch"
"Greenie Watch"
"The Psychologist"
BLOGS OCCASIONALLY UPDATED:
"Marx & Engels in their own words"
"A scripture blog"
"Recipes"
"Some memoirs"
"Paralipomena"
To be continued ....
Of Interest
My alternative Wikipedia
Laughing at New Matilda
Dagmar Schellenberger is an operatic genius
Updated as news items come in:
Coral reef compendium.
IQ compendium
Queensland Police -- A barrel with lots of bad apples
Australian Police News
BLOGS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED
"Food & Health Skeptic"
"Eye on Britain"
"Immigration Watch International".
"Leftists as Elitists"
Socialized Medicine
OF INTEREST (2)
QANTAS -- A dying octopus
BRIAN LEITER (Ladderman)
Obama Watch
Obama Watch (2)
Dissecting Leftism -- Large font site
Michael Darby
AGL -- A bumbling monster
Telstra/Bigpond follies
Optus bungling
Vodafrauds (vodafone)
Bank of Queensland blues
There are also two blogspot blogs which record what I think are my main recent articles here and here. Similar content can be more conveniently accessed via my subject-indexed list of short articles here or here (I rarely write long articles these days)
Main academic menu
basic home page
Pictorial Home Page
Selected pictures from blogs (Backup here)
Another picture page (Rarely updated)
A WORD TO THE WISE:
Very often in my writings, I link back to previous articles of mine as a way of making available a more detailed treatment of a given subject. It's a pervasive academic practice. At times, however, the link concerned will cease to work after a while -- usually for reasons beyond my control. In such cases the article concerned is still available -- but at a different address. To find the article, putting one of the following in front of the filename will generally recover the article concerned:
http://jonjayray.com/
http://johnjayray.com/
For example, you might be trying to access articles as follows:
http://jonjayray.netfirms.com/main.html
http://jonjayray.batcave.net/menu.html
Neither article is now available at those addresses but you can find other versions as follows:
http://jonjayray.com/main.html
OR
http://johnjayray.com/menu.html
Most of my articles have also been saved by others as follows
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/42197/20151027-0014/jonjayray.comuv.com/
OR: (After 2015)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160322114550/http://jonjayray.com/
"Dead" links are a besetting problem on the net but "difficulties exist to be overcome"! Who said that? I think it is usually attributed to Maria Montessori but Hitler had his own predictably aggressive version of it too: "Widerstaende sind nicht da, dass man vor ihnen kapituliert, sondern dass man sie bricht". Breaking things won't work in this instance, though.
The Wayback Machine is also a good way of recovering "lost" files.