Monthly Archives: March 2018

Collins: “Why Isn’t Self-Destruction Immoral?”

Hubert Collins has a very good, very personal essay in Social Matter titled “Why Isn’t Self-Destruction Immoral?” He really gets to the essence of where we are culturally. Collins is focused on the long game. Highly recommended. Game quote: “Gregory … Continue reading

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Marx vs. Nietzsche

I’ve been having fun with Google Ngram Viewer. Here’s my first one. In the dawning, liberal, socialist Culture born after WW2, you can see Nietzsche treading water while Marx takes off in the early 60s, reaching a crescendo in the … Continue reading

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Peter Brimelow on CivNat vs. WN

In a Slate piece titled “A Brief Conversation With White Nationalist Peter Brimelow at CPAC”, the VDARE founder expresses a sentiment many of us struggle/struggled with: “[M]y heart is with civic nationalism, but my head is with racial nationalism. Because I … Continue reading

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How Should Jews Remember Rev. Billy Graham?

Currently, the #1 story at The New York Jewish Week is “How Should Jews Remember Rev. Billy Graham?”: Rev. Graham’s sharing of vile anti-Semitic stereotypes with President Nixon in 1972 did not endear him to Jewish collective memory. In secretly taped … Continue reading

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What Makes Jewish Comedy Jewish?

From David Baddiel’s review of Jeremy Dauber’s book Jewish Comedy: A Serious History (“What makes Jewish comedy Jewish?”): Jewishness in comedy – what, in other words, is actually Jewish about the comedy of these secular Jews – is elusive, a … Continue reading

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BBC: Civilization(s)

Today’s Prufrock email blast notes: The BBC is bringing back Kenneth Clark’s Civilization. Unsurprisingly, it’s now called Civilizations, and the first episode has its share of egalitarian posturing. Otherwise, it’s not bad: “Here’s one of the fundamental differences between this … Continue reading

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Marine Le Pen Charged For Posting ISIS Photos

We must never lose sight of the fact that today’s Left would love to have similar laws here in the United States: PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal … Continue reading

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