Monthly Archives: June 2015

Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Forced to Resign

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Max West

Here is but the latest victim of the vicissitudes of an increasingly institutionalized Political Correctness: LONDON (AP) — A week ago, Tim Hunt was a well-known Nobel Prize winner who was promoting science education throughout Europe and the world. Today … Continue reading →

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Suffragette City 2.0

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Max West

It doesn’t take much imagination to forecast how the Hillary campaign will deploy a series of predictable tactics (e.g., stitched together appeals to the Obama Coalition block, which is essentially identity-politics for everyone except heterosexual white men; the ‘first woman … Continue reading →

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Charade (1963)

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Max West

Filmed in Paris, Charade (1963) is a light, semi-comedic, spy thriller directed by Stanley Donen, and which stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in the leads, with a strong supporting cast including Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy, the … Continue reading →

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Delmore Schwartz

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Max West

In The Nation, Vivian Gornick has a piece on the New York Jewish intellectual poet Delmore Schwartz (who happened to also be a mentor to Lou Reed.) She starts the piece with a reminiscence by Alfred Kazin: In New York … Continue reading →

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