Author Archives: Max West

George Hawley: Is the Alt-Right Collapsing?

While his recent book on the Alt Right was fairly balanced and rather level-headed, yet still politely condemned the AR itself, George Hawley’s recent speech to the (ahem) “Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Politics” is smug and gloating, and more clearly … Continue reading

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“Fascist Rhetoric”

From a Guardian piece on Ian Buruma, current editor of The New York Review of Books: What does Brexit look like to him? “It is the most shocking political event in my life. It was like a knife going through … Continue reading

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Smarter Living

In the NYT ‘Smarter Living’ section (right next to a story on “Why It’s Still Worth Getting a Flu Shot”) is “How Do I Deal With My Anger Towards Men?” In it, a reader who names herself ‘Justifiably Angry Feminist’ … Continue reading

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Beachheads

It’s all about reframing. Some time ago, Sailer equated young male ‘refugees’ going to Europe as like going to Disneyland: free food & apartment, alcohol, skimpily dressed blonde girls, etc. In conversations, I have been using this analogy ever since. … Continue reading

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Barry & Shannon

What is the deal super-wealthy Hollywood ‘globalists’ cloning their dogs? First, we read of Barbara Streisand cloning hers, then we find out today that it was Barry Diller who convinced her, after cloning his own dog with its shiksa-like backstory: … Continue reading

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Africa Speaks! (1930)

Africa Speaks! Mascot Pictures, 1930 (Morgan Litho. Corp., Cleveland). Three sheet (81 x 41”). Film documenting Paul L. Hoefler’s 1928 African expedition. Directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. You can bid here for this vintage poster. There’s … Continue reading

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Leonard Bernstein’s Radical Chic

In 1970, before the term ‘limousine liberal’ was coined, the great Tom Wolfe coined the phrase ‘radical chic’, which was the title of his famous long-form NY Magazine piece (“Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s”). It’s a seminal piece of … Continue reading

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NPR: Gross & Weisman Discussing… (Take a Wild Guess)

If you can stomach the sounds of two ‘globalists’ kibbutzing and wringing their hands about the dastardly Alt Right, this NPR interview that thee unbearably sanctimonious Terry Gross has with Jonathan Weisman is chock full of paranoia and cognitive dissonance. … Continue reading

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Alt Right: “Rumors of My Death are Greatly Exaggerated”

Progs are desperately trying to establish an “Alt Right is Dying” narrative, which they of course hope will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Amanda Carpenter has written a piece in Salon titled “Alt-right is dying, but powerful conservatives are mainstreaming its … Continue reading

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The SPLC’s Sad Hysteria

Those of us on the Dissident Right have long known the $PLC to be the most active promulgator of the deplatforming of conservatives. They do so by being a so-called anti-extremist watchdog group, a resource from which hysterical P.C. college … Continue reading

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