Author Archives: Max West

Roger Kimball on Tom Wolfe

Nobody strings together a sentence quite like Roger Kimball. Here he is discussing the late Tom Wolfe: One thing that Wolfe’s extravagant style at first obscured was the deep conservatism of his world view, moral and political as well as aesthetic. … Continue reading

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The Ballad of David Irving

Ron Unz’s “The Remarkable Historiography of David Irving” is a must-read and yet another object lesson for the need to question everything. Every grand sweeping narrative you take for granted (e.g., “Winston Churchill is a hero!”) must be, to use … Continue reading

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The Unband – Geez Louise (2000)

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Dowd on BO’s “Ahead of My Time” Comment

I have been perplexed by what Zero meant when he said to Ben Rhodes: “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early”. A pretty good explanation comes, of all places, from Maureen Dowd: As president, Obama … Continue reading

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NYT: Being a Housewife is Tantamount to White Supremacy

I thought, per the NYT & others, that the Alt Right was ‘dead’. Why, then, the need for hit pieces every other day? I see the frequency of such pieces as a fairly reliable gauge of how healthy the Alt … Continue reading

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Felix Yz

Felix Yz is a book designed to normalize and condition children (age range: 10-14) into accepting transgenderism, pronoun creativity, and further, outer reaches of ‘gender identity’: When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside … Continue reading

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NYT: “Beyond My White Sydney Bubble”

In “Beyond My White Sydney Bubble”, Lisa Pryor offers a maudlin paean to Multiculturalism: SYDNEY, Australia — I have spent most of my life among the mostly white and Australian-born. But slowly over the last few years I have been … Continue reading

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The New Yorker Interviews Two Starbucks Employees Who Took the Training

The New Yorker sends an intrepid reporter to report back on how the StarbucKKKs racism training session went (“What Two Starbucks Employees Made of the Company’s Ant-Bias Training”). He interviews two baristas with the company. They appear to be a … Continue reading

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NYT’s Racism Confessionals

Hopefully, the NYT can make this into a regular series, so liberal whites can atone endlessly, and to ever deeper and greater levels (“9 People Reveal a Time They Racially Stereotyped a Stranger”): Years ago, I was at the local … Continue reading

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First Look at “First Reformed” (2018)

Is Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” an SJW fantasy, a critique of SJW-ness’ telos, a parody of SJW-ness, or some strange combination thereof? Schrader himself has always struck me as a conservative guy, or at a minimum not a PC guy. … Continue reading

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