Daily Archives: August 18, 2015

Roundup: 8/18/15

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Max West

A #BlackLivesMatter activist tells Wolf Blitzer that the phrase “all lives matter” is a “violent statement.” Ann Coulter scratches Carly Fiorina off her list, the latter having ridiculing Trump’s notion (and now Walker’s) that birthright citizenship ought to be ended. … Continue reading →

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Bud Yorkin

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Max West

One of Norman Lear’s creative cohorts and fellow Tribesman, Bud Yorkin, has died. From Deadline Hollywood: Bud Yorkin, a film and TV director, producer and writer who partnered with Norman Lear on the groundbreaking television comedies All In The Family, Maude, Good … Continue reading →

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Resurrecting Ideals

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Max West

In “Why We Need to Resurrect Our Souls“, Mark Edmundson bemoans the passing of ideals: It is no secret: Culture in the West has become progressively more practical, materially oriented, and skeptical. When I look out at my students, I … Continue reading →

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Joan Didion: Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Max West

A few years ago, while on a trip to CA, I read Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a series of essays about CA written in the late ’60s. Didion was in the belly of the beast while writing the titular … Continue reading →

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What Your Vacation Says About You

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Max West

Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “The Conservative Heart”, has a NYT op-ed titled “What Your Vacation Says About You”: According to a study by Project: Time Off, a research-driven initiative from the … Continue reading →

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