Monthly Archives: June 2018

Lots of Bergs

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Max West

Recent NYT political-diversity hire Michelle Goldberg defends recent public uncivility to various Trump admin personnel because of…. muh abortion bombings from 30 yrs ago! “It’s a little more complicated when the professional racist is the president of the United States”, … 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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NYT Defines “Fringe”

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Max West

Day #2 of the NYT’s Normandy Invasion.

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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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13 Ways of Looking at a Narrative (Redux)

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Max West

Long day at work… Let me open the NYT to see what happened in the world today.

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How Did the Nazis Lead to Trump?

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Max West

Since Trump’s election in November of 2016, there has been a steady stream (nearly daily) of Nazi allegories. I thought I’ve seen them all, but this one from the NYT might just take the cake (“How Did the Nazis Gain … 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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The Unband – Geez Louise (2000)

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Max West
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Dowd on BO’s “Ahead of My Time” Comment

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Max West

I have been perplexed by what Zero meant when he said to Ben Rhodes: “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early”. A pretty good explanation comes, of all places, from Maureen Dowd: As president, Obama … Continue reading →

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