Category Archives: Jewish

Wolfson – The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other (2018)

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Max West

The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other (2018) By Elliot R. Wolfson Published by Columbia University Press (2018) Publisher Summary: Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century in … 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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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: “Mourning My (((White))) Husband in the Age of Trump”

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Max West

Every single unrelenting day, the NYT features at least one story or op-ed designed to say “white people are evil”. There are several today. One is an op-ed titled “Mourning My White Husband in the Age of Trump” by Erin … Continue reading →

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How German-Jews Tried To Defuse Radical Eastern European Jewish Immigrants

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Max West

In the annals of U.S. history, the tenuous relationship between highly-assimilated, establishment German-Jews and the huge, secondary wave of Eastern European Jews is quite an interesting one. Tablet has an article on “The Industrial Removal Office”: German American Jewish leaders … Continue reading →

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NYT: 96-Year-Old Secretary Donates $8.2 Million… But To Whom?

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Max West

The NYT celebrates an act of philanthropy from a fortune amassed by questionable scruples (“96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million”): Even by the dizzying standards of New York City philanthropy, a recent $6.24 million donation to the … Continue reading →

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Talmud & Math Skills

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Max West

When Jews begin acknowledging the simple fact that they have relatively high IQ or relatively superior math skills, is this a baby step for the Overton Window? David Kirsch ruminates on the role Talmudic scholarship may have played in developing … Continue reading →

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NYT Wants Fewers Johns & Roberts, More Liams & Noahs

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Max West

The NYT has a strange concern over the name “John” which they deploy in the most bizarre of comparison metrics: Fewer Republican senators are women than men named John — despite the fact that Johns represent 3.3 percent of the … Continue reading →

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Bret Stephens & The Immortal, Unyielding,1933 Meme

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Max West

To Bret Stephens & his ilk, it’s always 1933. And it is never Muslim immigrants behind the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany: “There were nearly 1,000 reported anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin alone last year. A neo-fascist party, Alternative for Germany, … Continue reading →

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