Author Archives: Max West

RINOs at Neoconservatism, Inc Shindig

Conservative Inc POTUS candidates are prostrating in Vegas before the sugar daddy of Neoconservatism, Inc: LAS VEGAS – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie won hearty applause from major Jewish donors after a speech Saturday heavy on appeals for GOP unity … Continue reading

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British Gardening

When I was in England, I was struck at how virtually everyone there gardens. No matter how small or non-existent (in the case of multi-story apartment dwellers) their available soil might be, a deep love of cultivating is part of … Continue reading

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Blood Meridian: Children’s Book

Blood Meridian, envisioned as a children’s book:

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Biden: ‘11 Million Undocumented Aliens Are Already Americans in My View’

La Raza-styled rhetoric from the sitting Vice President of the United States of America: (CNSNews.com) – Vice President Joe Biden, in a speech to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 Legislative Summit, on Thursday said the 11 million illegal … Continue reading

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Scientific Racism’s Long History Mandates Caution, Experts Warn

Within even the scientific community, liberal pieties cloud one’s ability to see reason and evidence for what they are: a disinfectant to prejudice and superstition. In terms of empirical science, eventually, truth always prevails. There’s a Dark Enlightenment coming. It … Continue reading

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True Detective: Doubters

Jon Baskin has a nice essay on philosophy in True Detective. After reviewing some of the snooty dismissals of the show’s philosophical engagements, Baskin defends the show’s overt philosophizing: Although True Detective has sometimes been criticized for failing to offer … Continue reading

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Greg Johnson on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Greg Johnson (a reliably outstanding writer) weighs in on the recent publication of volume one of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte (Black Notesbooks): Now it appears that Heidegger also turned his attention to the Jewish question. Again, it is a mistake to … Continue reading

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Starbucks: A Foray Into ‘Data-Driven Localism’

For years, I’ve been interested in the role of ‘place’ within the framework of Burkean conservatism. The idealization of localism — that is, the organic, bottom-up antithesis to globalization’s setting of ‘place’ — is something of a geographic correlative to … Continue reading

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Sailer on Puerto Rico

A f-ng great post, that had me rolling, from Steve Sailer (“A Man, a Plan, an Underfunded Pension Liability, Puerto Rico!“): In Taki’s Magazine, John Derbyshire asks: How Can We Get Rid of Puerto Rico? Wouldn’t it be great horrible … Continue reading

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Pew: White Majority Over, Next Generation More Than 50% Non-White

Dour analysis from Pew: For the first time in American history, non-whites will make up half or more of the next generation, likely pushing Washington toward a bigger government — and the GOP better tone down their anti-government rhetoric if … Continue reading

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