Category Archives: Culture

Leonard the Liberator

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Max West

From David Denby’s review of Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein: As a young man, Leonard Bernstein was prodigiously gifted and exceptionally handsome, and he slept with many men and with … Continue reading →

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Roger Kimball on Tom Wolfe

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Max West

Nobody strings together a sentence quite like Roger Kimball. Here he is discussing the late Tom Wolfe: One thing that Wolfe’s extravagant style at first obscured was the deep conservatism of his world view, moral and political as well as aesthetic. … Continue reading →

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The Ballad of David Irving

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Max West

Ron Unz’s “The Remarkable Historiography of David Irving” is a must-read and yet another object lesson for the need to question everything. Every grand sweeping narrative you take for granted (e.g., “Winston Churchill is a hero!”) must be, to use … Continue reading →

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NYT: Being a Housewife is Tantamount to White Supremacy

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Max West

I thought, per the NYT & others, that the Alt Right was ‘dead’. Why, then, the need for hit pieces every other day? I see the frequency of such pieces as a fairly reliable gauge of how healthy the Alt … Continue reading →

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Felix Yz

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Max West

Felix Yz is a book designed to normalize and condition children (age range: 10-14) into accepting transgenderism, pronoun creativity, and further, outer reaches of ‘gender identity’: When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside … Continue reading →

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NYT: “Beyond My White Sydney Bubble”

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Max West

In “Beyond My White Sydney Bubble”, Lisa Pryor offers a maudlin paean to Multiculturalism: SYDNEY, Australia — I have spent most of my life among the mostly white and Australian-born. But slowly over the last few years I have been … Continue reading →

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The New Yorker Interviews Two Starbucks Employees Who Took the Training

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Max West

The New Yorker sends an intrepid reporter to report back on how the StarbucKKKs racism training session went (“What Two Starbucks Employees Made of the Company’s Ant-Bias Training”). He interviews two baristas with the company. They appear to be a … Continue reading →

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P.C. at Hanging Rock

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Max West

We live at a time when even The Globe Theater, where Shakespeare’s plays were originally unveiled, has gone Full Woke. Following Peter Weir’s celebrated 1975 cinematic adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, Amazon has created a new … Continue reading →

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Language as a Weapon

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Max West

Invited onstage, a white woman simply sings Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics, which is a cardinal sin… for a white person. The Racial Culture War is being fought in the trenches of grammar. Grammar is a weapon, a nexus of power. The … Continue reading →

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RIP: Tom Wolfe

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Max West
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