Author Archives: Max West

When Hitler Was Curator

In “When Hitler Was Curator“, Morgan Meis discusses a new exhibit harkening to the famous “Degenerate Art” exhibit Hitler curated at Berlin’s Haus Der Kunst in 1937: The current show at the Neue Galerie in New York City (“Degenerate Art: … Continue reading

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Internet’s Effect on Our Minds

Jacob Mikanowski reviews three recent academic books on what the internet is doing to our minds: The App Generation, Status Update, and It’s Complicated (all published by Yale University Press.) Mikanowski writes: I used to ask the internet everything. I … Continue reading

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Polarization

NYT: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to GOP Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats

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Multiverse

Amir Alexander reviews Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by By Max Tegmark: Zooming through a Stockholm intersection on his bicycle one morning, 18-year-old Max Tegmark never saw the truck that hit him. The blast … Continue reading

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Galaxies

Phil Plait writes: What happens when you take a 2.4-meter telescope, launch it into space, and command it to stare at one spot in the sky for a solid 14 hours, taking data both in visible light (like our eyes … Continue reading

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Fiddler vs. The Rothschilds

In Takimag, Steve Sailer has an excellent essay on various misconceptions surrounding Jewish history in Europe (“Mythos and Blood“). That history is less Fiddler on the Roof (well-known musical by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock) and more The Rothschilds (little-known … Continue reading

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When Whites Become a Minority: Pt. 32,198

Since 1965, large numbers of immigrants arriving into the U.S. have been unskilled, earning low wages, and have come to depend more so on the government for things. They also (expectedly) favor large government. Kevin MacDonald discusses a recent study … Continue reading

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Jared Taylor on U.S. Immigration Policy

Jared Taylor on the history of U.S. immigration policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqQgJ3atNU#t=47

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SCOTUS Upholds Ban On Affirmative Action

Good news from SCOTUS today: The Supreme Court delivered another setback to affirmative action Tuesday, easing the way for states to bar public colleges from considering race in admissions and to prohibit officials from taking race into account in hiring … Continue reading

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Frehley Responds

On Eddie Trunk’s radio show, Ace Frehley has responded to Paul Stanley’s allegations that Frehly and drummer Peter Criss are “anti-semitic”: “My fiancée is Jewish. How can I be anti-Semitic? Is he out of his mind? Forty years in the … Continue reading

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