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On Twee
‘Twee’ is a purported youth-oriented, cultural niche, one that is arguably a subset of ‘hipsterdom’. Anna Schaffner reviews Marc Spitz’s book Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film: Since the Second World War, Spitz argues, there … Continue reading
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Hillary 5.0
Hillary’s extended disappearance, likely some away-from-the-cameras time to allow the facelift to heal, will end soon enough. Then we can look forward to 18 months of her screeching voice. WaPo has a piece on “The making of Hillary 5.0: Marketing … Continue reading
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Kristof: ‘Straight Talk for White Men’
Is it just me, or does it seem the NYT often almost coordinates a specific meme for their writers and reporters to push? With the aforementioned ‘Challenging White Privilege from the Inside of Schools’ their piece de jour, in comes … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-White, Political Correctness
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NYT: Challenging White Privilege from the Inside of Schools
Prominent on NYT.com today is “At New York Private Schools, Challenging White Privilege From the Inside”. Besides the usual P.C. tripe, this one is noteworthy insofar as it demonstrates, in rather clear terms, the next phase of political correctness, a … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness
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Teachout: Bob Hope’s Success Was Because He Wasn’t Jewish
Terry Teachout, reviewing Hope: Entertainer of the Century, Richard Zoglin’s new biography of Bob Hope, isn’t much of a fan of Hope, believing him to be overrated as a comedian and safe in his humor. Consequently, Teachout believes Hope’s massive … Continue reading
JPod: Media Out of Touch with Red America
The huge success of overtly patriotic movies such as American Sniper and TV shows such as NCIS, argues John Podhoretz, demonstrates how out of touch the cultural elite is. This parochialism is a form of willing blindness about what America … Continue reading
Philomena (2013)
I’ve been on a Steve Coogan kick of late, having recently devoured both the full 6-episode, BBC series The Trip (2010) as well as it’s followup The Trip to Italy (2014). (Distilled, 90 min versions of each were released as … Continue reading
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Bob Simon & Herbert Marcuse
Writing in the New Yorker (ahem), Bernard Avishai (ahem) writes about “Bob Simon and Herbert Marcuse”, the former being the late ethnocentric journalist and 60 Minutes regular whom I previously wrote about: I knew Bob Simon, the longtime CBS correspondent, … Continue reading
NYT: When Americans Lynched Mexicans
At the top of NYT.com is “When Americans Lynched Mexicans”: Blacks weren’t the only victims of violence by white mobs. There is simply no end to the NYT’s war against whites.
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