Author Archives: Max West

NYT: All the News That Isn’t Fit To Print

Every ‘fake news’ (i.e., Alt Right) website is reporting on the disturbing story of the 4 blacks who bound and tortured a white man, forcing him to drink from a toilet, while they yelled ‘F*ck Donald Trump!” and “F*ck white people!”, … Continue reading

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After Words: George Borjas

Some weeks back, I saw this C-SPAN interview with George Borjas, a professor of economics and social policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of the forthcoming We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative. Bojras is himself a Cuban … Continue reading

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New Yorker: “Intellectuals For Trump”

In The New Yorker today, we have “Intellectuals for Trump”, which is largely a profile of Publius Decius Mus, who’s “secure borders, economic nationalism, interests-based foreign policy” platform fueled the most talked about political essay of 2016. The New Yorker … Continue reading

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Ford’s “Vote of Confidence” in Trump

Today is a busy news day. While the Me-Again story and GOP flip-flop on the Ethics Committee rules will dominate the news, this should be the lead story: Ford will build a plant in Michigan instead of Mexico as a … Continue reading

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Me-Again Leaving Fox

The NYT is reporting that Me-Again Kelly is leaving Fox News: Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a television news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, has decided to leave … Continue reading

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The Cathedral on ‘Post-Truth Age’

In the middle ‘90s, the early days of the internet disproportionately helped conservatism? Why? Because pre-internet sources of information (e.g., newspapers, the ABC/CBS/NBC nightly news, academia) all slanted left. The Hayekian, bottom up, organic knowledge dynamics of the internet could … Continue reading

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NYT: Populism = Putin ‘Hacking’ Democracies

We’re now into the plural. A clairvoyant writing for the NYT reports that Germany’s election in Oct 2017 has been hacked… with the help of Trump (who we all know is an illegitimate POETUS and stooge of Putin.) How long … Continue reading

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Pat Condell

I forgot how great this guy is (it’s been years since I last checked him out). I’ve linked to him to the ‘Radio, Podcasts, & Video’ links on the bottom right.

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Martin & Fritz

After the publication of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, which I previously wrote about, there has been a clamoring for the Heidegger family to release his familial correspondence. In “Heidegger and Anti-Semitism Yet Again: The Correspondence Between the Philosopher and His Brother … Continue reading

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Hipsters Broke Her/His/Ze Gaydar

Increasingly, it’s getting harder to distinguish culture-related opinion pieces in the NYT from Onion parodies. Today, we have “Hipsters Broke My Gaydar” by Krista Burton. Her piece starts with a triggering: CHICAGO — At a holiday crafts fair, a cute … Continue reading

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