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Author Archives: Max West
Blue-Eyed Hunter-Gatherers Roamed Prehistoric Europe, Gene Map Reveals
Genetic analysis of a “7,000-year-old Spaniard” reveals that “early Europeans sported blue eyes and dark skin.” From National Geographic: Mapping the blue-eyed boy’s genes is part of ongoing effort to uncover the DNA of ancient humans. The new study in … Continue reading
The Dark Enlightement: Coming ‘Out of the Shadows’
They’re starting to take notice. And there is no such thing as bad press. Here’s a pejorative attempt at a takedown of the Dark Enlightenment from Matthew Walther of ‘Conservative, Inc’ publication The American Spectator (“The Dark Enlightenment Is Silly … Continue reading
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Our Progressive Future
Here’s the photo accompanying an article titled “State of the Union 2014: What Liberals Want“: This picture pretty much says it all. Rep. Raúl Grijalva: Chicano racialist & co-chairman of the Progressive Caucus Sen. Bernie Sanders: Jewish socialist from Brooklyn … Continue reading
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Surprise as a Function of Liberal Media Bias
On C-SPAN this weekend was a talk by Evan Sayet on “Liberals and the Media.” What I found most interesting in the speech was his reference to an article by Bret Stephens of the WSJ. Stephens characterizes the cumulative effect … Continue reading
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Homeland Security Secretary: Illegals Have ‘Earned Right to be Citizens’
You can’t make this shit up: (CNSNews.com) – Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to … Continue reading
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Cronenberg on Kafka
In The Paris Review, filmmaker David Cronenberg has a very well-written meditation on Franz Kafka (“The Beetle and the Fly“). Cronenberg begins his piece: I woke up one morning recently to discover that I was a seventy-year-old man. Is this … Continue reading
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Working at the Intersection
Sometimes, life imitates parody. Here’s how a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education begins: As a critical theorist working at the intersection of Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist and queer theory, I make observations about human life that … Continue reading
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Anxiety & Consciousness
Louis Menand reviews Scott Stossel’s book My Age of Anxiety: “To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible … Continue reading
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The War on Poverty at 50
NRO has an online symposium on “The War on Poverty at 50“, which features brief blurbs from various scholars. Here’s Charles Murray: The pair of statistics about the War on Poverty that should get the most publicity are these: In … Continue reading
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David Bowie – Life On Mars (1971)
One of my favorite songs ever, from the extraordinary 1971 album Hunky Dory by David Bowie:
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