Author Archives: Max West

Bannon v. Kushner

Politico is reporting that Steve Bannon came close to quitting the WH due to Jared Kushner’s power play and increasing influence over the President. The man credited with honing Donald Trump’s populist message and guiding him into the White House … Continue reading

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Sweden’s LBGTQRSUV Crowd & Muslim Migrants

The libertines in Sweden don’t quite get it. What does one think the cumulative effect of giving newly-arrived, young, male, Muslim ‘refugees’ this will have on both their perspective of, and their actions within, their new host welfare state? Swedish … Continue reading

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McInnes: God Bless the Right-Wing SJWs

In “God Bless the Right-Wing Social Justice Warriors”, Gavin McInnes perfectly distills the effectiveness of trolling tactics of the Alt-Right. It is a major new front in the ongoing Culture Wars, a cultural appropriation of Saul Alinsky: We’ve taken Saul … Continue reading

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NYT: The Prophet of France’s Fracture

The NYT has a long profile of French political scientist Gilles Kepel written by Robert Worth (“The Prophet of France’s Fracture”). The piece starts with the usual ‘let me display my liberal bona fides’ preface found in any NYT article … Continue reading

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The 2015 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study

The 2015 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study is what Brandeis University concerns itself with. Of Jewish achievement in education: Nine-in-ten (87%) Jewish adults in Greater Boston have earned at least a bachelor’s degree, including six-in-ten (61%) with at least one … Continue reading

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David Bowie or sea slug?

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Elizabeth Warren’s Female Staffers Make 71% of Male Staffers’ Salaries

Meanwhile, from the offices of Senator Social J. Warrior: The gender pay gap in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) office is nearly 10 percent wider than the national average, meaning women in the Massachusetts Democrat’s office will have to wait … Continue reading

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Robert Schiller on Job Automation

What does Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert Shiller think about the Coming Robot Job Automation Apocalypse? Robert Shiller, the Nobel-Prize winning economist who is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, said that automation and artificial intelligence are the trends … Continue reading

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Buchanan & Caldwell on Putin

Pat Buchanan discusses a much-talked-about article by Christopher Caldwell titled “How to Think About Vladimir Putin”: [W]hile his impressive strides toward making Russia great again explain why he is revered at home and in the Russian diaspora, what explains Putin’s … Continue reading

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Robots & Jobs: March 2017 Study

“Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets” is a new study by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo. Here is the paper’s abstract: As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern … Continue reading

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