Category Archives: Culture

The Marvelous Subversion of Mrs. Maisel

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Max West

The 1950s has long been the Left’s favorite punching bag. To those of the loud, urban, NYC-pseudo-intellectual milieu, the small towns of Mayberry, and wherever Ozzie and Harriet and ‘the Beave’ lived, are jokes, absurdist romanticizations of an era that … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Brody’s Peppermint Schtick

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Max West

Richard Brody (the famed New Yorker movie critic whose worldview and appearance are very much that of a rabbi) is not a fan of films which feature Gentile white people. He intimates their time is done, their epoch over. It … Continue reading →

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The Songs of Jeong & Lee

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Max West

The late founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, is famous for observing: “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.” This axiom led Yew … Continue reading →

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On the 10th Anniversary of “Step Brothers” (2008)

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Max West

Why does every culture-related interview have to inject Trumphitler? What is amazing is how insular their world is, so insular and monolithic in political opinion that journalistic interviewers, when interviewing A-listers and whatnot, have full confidence that their Trump insults … Continue reading →

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Is There Any Point to Protesting?

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Max West

What role mass protests (and movement politics) have in our decentralized, spontaneous, cell phone era is a conundrum for both the Radical Left and the Alt Right. Though naturally focused on various Marxist scholars’ analyses, this New Yorker piece is … Continue reading →

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Nazi Faces in the Clouds

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Max West

We live in an era when Leftists see Neo-Nazis in the clouds. This strange sort of Rorschach projection has accelerated in recent years, with SJWs seeing KKK hoods in a woman wrapped in a blanket, Janeane Garofalo saying she heard … Continue reading →

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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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