Monthly Archives: September 2017

The Red Pilling of Rod Dreher – Redux

My first post for Counter-Currents is “The Red Pilling of Rod Dreher”, a reworking of a post I did earlier this week.

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Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!”

From Kyle Smith’s NR review of Darren Aronofsky’s new film Mother!: Ordinarily when a filmmaker goes trampling all over your senses with an eye toward maximizing disgust, it’s for the purpose of producing some cheap scares. In Mother, though, the aim … Continue reading

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Trump to Sign Resolution Condemning WN Groups

You can’t make this up. (Hat tip: Occidental Dissent). From FNC (“Trump to sign resolution condemning white-nationalist groups”): The White House said Wednesday that President Donald Trump will sign a bipartisan congressional resolution condemning white nationalists, after the measure passed … Continue reading

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The Red Pilling of Rod – Pt. 172

UPDATE: A significantly revised and expanded version of this post is up at Counter-Currents. *** As I’ve previously noted, I follow Rod Dreher’s posts because I see him as a test case of how a prototypical ‘Christian humanist’ (e.g., someone … Continue reading

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Elite Virtue-Signaling

In TAC, Benjamin Schwarz reviews The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (“The New Elite’s Silly Virtue-Signaling Consumption”): Currid-Halkett convincingly argues that the consumer preferences of today’s elite—be it the approved podcast, TED … Continue reading

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RIP: Grant Hart

Grant Hart, who with Bob Mould co-founded the great post-punk band Hüsker Dü, has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer. Mould has penned an homage here. While I greatly preferred Mould’s songs, below are … Continue reading

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Uriah Heep – Suicidal Man (1974)

It’s easy to see how Iron Maiden was influenced by these guys.

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Bannon the Red-Eyed Devil

This guy offers pretty good proof that CBS deliberately used a color saturation filter to make Steve Bannon look like a monster, while the camera on Charlie Rose used a lightened filter to minimize similar facial features on Rose. I’m … Continue reading

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NYT: 9/13/17

All the News that Fits the Narrative.

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Voting Rights for Illegals vs. Nazis

On the subject of sacred illegal aliens, the natural inertia and unfolding of Leftist philosophy on the matter is to grant them voting rights, and to label anyone who disagrees with this a white supremacist or a Nazi. Embedded within … Continue reading

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