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Author Archives: Max West
The Atlantic: “The Rise of Anti-Liberalism”
In The Atlantic, the essay “The Rise of Anti-Liberalism” starts off promising, but quickly goes off the rails. This is likely due to the writer’s name being Shadi Hamid. Submission is still very clearly a dystopian novel—an increasingly popular genre these … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Death of the West, Islam, Literature
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Saving Private Ryan & the Jewish Experience
“Spielberg’s War: Saving Private Ryan & the Jewish Experience” is an excellent essay and a great companion to Rob Ager’s always-insightful film analyses. “By having the most gruesome and realistic depictions of war at the beginning, Spielberg neatly turns the … Continue reading
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability
At this point in time, PoMo academia is beyond parody. Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability is a book edited by Pamela Block, Nick Pollard, Devwa Kasnitz, and Akemi Nishida. This book explores the concept of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, CFP, Postmodernism
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Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story (2017)
I am greatly looking forward to this documentary on the greatly underrated guitarist and arranger Mick Ronson. The fact that David Bowie was very involved in the making of this documentary possibly attests to Bowie’s sense of complicity (however unintentional) … Continue reading
Motorhead – In the Name of Tragedy (2004)
A thrash-influenced gem from late period Motorhead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWsjLRfeHI
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Child Worship
It is truly remarkable how the bastions of progressivism are treating these FL high school kids like supreme arbiters of public policy and constitutional interpretation (and only because they lean liberal rather than conservative.) It is quite normal for kids … Continue reading
Lind on “The New Separatism”
William Lind discusses “The New Separatism” sweeping across Europe and that, in the U.S., translated into Trump’s victory: The driving force behind separatism is the same as that which has created Fourth Generation war, war waged by non-state entities. That … Continue reading
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TC&I – Scatter Me (2017)
The feud between Colin Moulding & Andy Partridge appears permanent. It’s a shame because, collectively, they put out fantastic albums as the songwriters of XTC. Some comfort comes in the form of TC&I, the new musical entity involving Colin Moulding … Continue reading
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The New Yorker: Profile of Peter Sloterdijk
In The New Yorker, Thomas Meaney has a profile of Germany’s gadfly public intellectual Peter Sloterdijk (“A Celebrity Philosopher Explains the Populist Insurgency”). Of Sloterdijk’s slightly pomo brand of pastiche philosophizing: This profligacy makes Sloterdijk hard to pin down. He … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Europe, Philosophy
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Le Carré Leans Left
In Modern Age, Mark Tooley looks at the career of John le Carré. Towards the end of this piece is this sad example of le Carré’s leftist leanings: In his latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, le Carré returns to his … Continue reading
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