Daily Archives: June 4, 2013

Morton Downey Jr.

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Max West

Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie is a documentary on the late Morton Downey Jr., whose vile confrontational style paved the way for the likes of Howard Stern, Jerry Springer, Maury Povitch, and even Ted Baxter…er, I mean Bill O’Reilly. While … Continue reading →

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A Bell is Not a Bell

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Max West

In the Oscar Hammerstein II – Out Of My Dreams documentary on PBS (see my previous post) is reference to a beautiful verse from the song “Sixteen Going On Seventeen – Reprise” from The Sound of Music. (This verse is … Continue reading →

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Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Max West

I’m in the middle of reading The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald. Last week I watched Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy on PBS (video here.) In parallel … Continue reading →

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Wieseltier on Scientism

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Max West

Many of my forays into philosophy on this blog will involve pointing out the dangerous dogmatism of scientism. Here’s Leon Wieseltier on the subject: Our glittering age of technologism is also a glittering age of scientism. Scientism is not the … Continue reading →

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