Author Archives: Max West

Joan Didion: Slouching Toward Bethlehem

A few years ago, while on a trip to CA, I read Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a series of essays about CA written in the late ’60s. Didion was in the belly of the beast while writing the titular … Continue reading

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What Your Vacation Says About You

Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “The Conservative Heart”, has a NYT op-ed titled “What Your Vacation Says About You”: According to a study by Project: Time Off, a research-driven initiative from the … Continue reading

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Buchanan on Trump’s Surge

In the wake of Trump’s policy position on immigration, created with the help of Sen. Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan weighs in: Will the West endure or disappear by the century’s end as another lost civilization? Mass immigration, if it continues, … Continue reading

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NYT: 8/16/15

It’s Sunday in the NYT… What should we talk about?

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Time

It’s already been one year since Robin Williams died. Jesus Christ, how time flies.  

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Salon: The Last Whimper of the Angry White Man

In the liberal thermometer that is Salon, Kim Messick has a piece titled “Donald Trump is the last whimper of the angry white man”. Regarding Trump’s rise and perseverance in the polls: Two facts about all this deserve special notice. … Continue reading

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The Conscience of a Cuckservative

In Counter-Currents, the excellent Greg Johnson has a piece titled “The Conscience of a Cuckservative” which distills our current cultural morass to the root: In the United States, the center-Left Democratic Party is a coalition of white liberals, non-whites, sexual … Continue reading

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#BlackOlivesMatter

Surreal: KEENE, N.H. — Hillary Clinton met with five Black Lives Matter activists behind closed doors following her campaign event here Tuesday evening after the group tried to disrupt the forum but arrived too late to get past security. The … Continue reading

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Pathological Altruism – Pt. 3,915

Regarding the phenomenon of ‘pathological altruism‘ — which is the root of white civilization’s demise — is the following study (hat tip: KMac): “The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation“, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (3) 7, by … Continue reading

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U.K. Subs – 666 Yeah (2006)

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