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Author Archives: Max West
Death Wish: Then and Now
With respect to the Death Wish remake currently out, I’m struck by the significant ‘White Panther’-esque “moviegoer vs movie critic” split in terms of the film’s favorability/unfavorability. In his review of the film at Variety, Owen Gleiberman (sigh) establishes his … Continue reading
XTC – The Ugly Underneath (1992)
One of the countless gems by this sorely missed, genius band. First there’s the handshake It’s so warm that you could bake by it Designed to take attention from their Ugly Underneath… Then there’s the wedding The coordinated bedding And … Continue reading
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The Shape of ‘The Shape of Water’
Thank God we have people like Nathan Duffy over at Thermidor, who went through the pain of watching The Shape of Water so that the rest of us can be spared: It’s hard to overstate how absurd the SJW messaging … Continue reading
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Tyler Cowen: “No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here”
Tyler Cowen (of Marginal Revolution) has a piece in Politico titled “No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here”, which is adapted from Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America, edited by Cass “Nudge” Sunstein. My argument is pretty simple: American fascism cannot happen … Continue reading
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Culture Wars 3.0
If the incipient formation of Political Correctness in the early 1990s was Culture Wars 1.0, then we are certainly now in the heady throes of Culture Wars 2.0. But what shape might a Culture Wars 3.0 take? In his recent … Continue reading
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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
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