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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Mau Mau-ing the Flak-Catchers
The British govt goes into full, grovelling, flak-catchers mode: The UK government is expected to apologise to those tortured during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s, the BBC understands. Compensation for the victims is also expected to … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Left, Political Correctness
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CFP: Post-Black but not Post-Race. Got that?
It’s time for CFP, where we check-in to see what trendy claptrap our contemporary Humanitites professoriate are preoccupying themselves (and young college kids) with. Today’s installment: 50 Years after the Civil Rights Act: Post-Black but not Post-Race Event: 04/03/2014 – … Continue reading
Posted in CFP, Postmodernism
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Send Us Your Violent Bigots, Yearning To Butcher Us
From Coulter‘s latest column: It’s been a bad few weeks for cultural assimilation. Last month, two welfare-receiving immigrants in the United States, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds. By … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Immigration
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Jayman: HBD Blogging And What Lies Ahead
Jayman’s latest is a must-read: “100 Blog Posts – A Reflection on HBD Blogging And What Lies Ahead“. It’s an excellent overview of the HBD-blogging horizon. There’s posts, and then there’s… posts.
Posted in Culture Wars, HBD
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Morton Downey Jr.
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
A Bell is Not a Bell
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
Posted in Music, Philosophy
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Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
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
Wieseltier on Scientism
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
Posted in Philosophy, Scientism
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Lautenbergasaurus
One Senate Dinosaur down… about 75 more to go.
Posted in Politics
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‘Hate Speech’ in France
Terrifying news from France, where Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front party, faces ‘thought crime’ criminal charges for “inciting racism”. The French authorities opened a case against Mrs Le Pen in 2011 after she likened the sight of … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Political Correctness
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