Author Archives: Max West

Ghosts of Christmas Past (Redux)

I’m reposting (again) this nice summary from Richard Spencer discussing the Germanic pagan influence on medieval Christianity (“Ghosts of Christmas Past“): We have become so accustomed to Christmas rituals—and so accustomed to them in the form of kitsch—that we forget … Continue reading

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Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – There’s a Hole in My Pocket (1969)

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The Organizer: Public is Too Dumb To See His Brilliance

In addition to his “The Party that Gave Herman Cain and Ben Carson notable Voting Blocs are Racist for Liking Donald Trump” comments, The Organizer lectures the NPR audience (his built-in constituency!) that the public only sees his ISIS strategy … Continue reading

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The Boys Next Door – The Wildest Christmas (1966)

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KMac on ‘The War on Christmas’

For a better understanding of the ongoing War on Christmas, KMac has a brief but instructive review of Joshua Eli Plaut’s book A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish: So Jews subverted Christmas but their motives were pure and … Continue reading

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Trump’s Poll Numbers & Social-Desirability Bias

While the MSM and GOP, Inc continue to paint Trump supporters as ‘low education whites’, virtually every white conservative I work with (all of whom are college educated) support Trump. The LA Times rightly observes the role of social-desirability bias … Continue reading

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Intelligence Genes Discovered by Scientists

In The Telegraph, Sarah Knapton reports on “Intelligence genes discovered by scientists“: Genes which make people intelligent have been discovered and scientists believe they could be manipulated to boost brain power. Researchers have believed for some time that intellect is … Continue reading

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Bruce Springsteen – Meet Me in the City (1980)

Here’s Springsteen, from this past Sat’s SNL, performing “Meet Me in the City”, a previously unreleased track from the stunning new box set The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (2015):

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T.S. Eliot – The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954)

There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish—which is not that of the child For whom the candle … Continue reading

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Gaps in the Grammar of the Universe

Jag Bhalla has an excellent, brief, Tractatus-outlined piece on the limits of scientism, the indeterminateness of language and its metaphysical inscrutability. (“Gaps in the Grammar of the Universe?“) Does our grasp of the grammar of the universe have gaps? Is … Continue reading

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