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Ronan v Trump
My favorite passage from Ronan Farrow’s new piece on Trump in The New Yorker (which MSNBC and CNN will be discussing for the next 2,000 hours straight): Afterward, McDougal wrote, she “went to see him every time he was in … Continue reading
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The Art Of Reading In The Digital Era
In “Teaching The Art Of Reading In The Digital Era”, James McWilliams discusses the amplified cognitive experience of reading when a physical book’s tactility and smell is in play…. compared to a Kindle: “Reading,” says Steve Mannheimer, professor of Media … Continue reading
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First Things: “The Impossibility Of “Alt-Right Christianity””
Writing in First Things, Connor Grubaugh writes on “The Impossibility Of “Alt-Right Christianity””, which is largely a response to Hunter Wallace’s articulation of a race realist Christianity. [T]hose who ascribe the achievements of Western culture to race rather than providence … Continue reading
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The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir
As a film noir fanatic, I found this rather nice: Set to the tune of Massive Attack’s “Angel,” Serena Bramble’s 2009 remix project “The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir” is a “video love letter that distills film noir … Continue reading
Reuters/Ipsos Poll: White Consciousness is Coalescing in the U.S.
Larry Sabato is rather alarmed at the results of a new Reuters/Ipsos poll (with a good sample size of 5,360). The poll’s full results and methodology are available here, with crosstabs available here. Sabato writes: A new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction … Continue reading
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Interesting Flickers in Jonah Goldberg Interview
This interview of Jonah Goldberg by Ben Domenech is instructive. Of the #NeverTrumpers among Conservative, Inc., the two discuss (at the 10:00 marker) how GOPE has for the most part begun to adjust to Trump’s agenda, except for the “the … Continue reading
Kehinde Wiley’s Favored Symbols
Kehinde Wiley, the flamboyantly gay, Afrocentric ‘artist’ who delivered the hilariously awful Obama portrait, inserts sperm imagery into his paintings. See the right side of Obama’s temple, in what looks like a vein. From a Quartz piece on another Wiley painting: … Continue reading
Uriah Heep – Can’t Stop Singing (1976)
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Hood on the Portraits
Gregory Hood weighs in on the Mr. & Mrs. Obama “Affirmative-Action Portraits”: Third-rate portraits portend a Third-World nation. When the collapse begins, people generally don’t realize it. Rarely do statesmen acknowledge the Golden Age of their nation has passed; every … Continue reading
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Israel: The Double Standard – Pt. 3,182
From Haaretz, a truly remarkable story wherein a major national political figure… is honest. (“Justice Minister: Israel Must Keep Jewish Majority Even at the Expense of Human Rights”): Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Monday that if not for the fence … Continue reading
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