Daily Archives: January 21, 2015

Lutz Bachmann Resigns From PEGIDA

Lutz Bachmann, leader of PEGIDA, has been ousted for the usual reasons: Orwellian opposition to alleged ‘hatespeech’ and/or for offending P.C. sensitivities, this time in the form of a photo of him looking like Hitler: (CNN)As thousands-strong anti-Islamization rallies make … Continue reading

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The Essence of Davos

Via Steven Duffield via Charles Murray: Everything you need to know about Davos, in one tweet: http://j.mp/1DZlzpX

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DOJ to Recommend No Charges in Ferguson Death

At the top of the NYT: Federal prosecutors have found no evidence to support charges against Darren Wilson, a former police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in the shooting death of Michael Brown, officials said. Don’t black lives matter? Does this … Continue reading

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Gopnik on Houellebecq

In The New Yorker, Michel Houellebecq gets the Adam Gopnik treatment. (Gopnik is that all too familiar sociological phenomenon — the NYC liberal Jew — but is a helluva writer.) The French writer Michel Houellebecq has become a literary “case” … Continue reading

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Amos Vogel

In “The Limits of American Cinephilia“, Richard Brody provides a glowing profile of leftwing film critic Amos Vogel: In 1947, when he was twenty-six and a student at the New School for Social Research, Vogel founded Cinema 16, a film … Continue reading

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