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Author Archives: Max West
CoS Flag Building
Ahh… CoS is finally unveiling the 377,000 SF “Flag Building” this weekend, where cult members can get ‘superpowers’. I walked around that building last year, took a few photos, and was monitored the whole time I was there.
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Is There Still An England?
Derb visits the home country, anecdotally observes the demographics of a few locales, and finds “There’s Still an England – And It Could Yet Be Saved”: With a firm change of policy soon, England might yet be saved as a … Continue reading
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The School of Arthur Danto
In “The School of Arthur Danto”, Crispin Sartwell opines on the late Arthur Danto’s very influential philosophical aesthetics. (I never really warmed to Danto’s “institutional theory of art”, which surfs a bit too closely to relativism for my tastes.) Sartwell … Continue reading
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Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?
In “Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?”, Joel Kotkin discusses “the perception of a majority of middle class Americans that their children will not do better than them, with as many as pessimistic about the future as … Continue reading
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Famous Paintings Updated With 21st-Century Gadgets
“Famous Paintings Updated With 21st-Century Gadgets” features about a dozen famous artworks, with cell phones or iPads strategically placed into view, something that is now ubiquitous in our technologically over-stimulated society today. Here’s the take on “Wanderer Above the Sea … Continue reading
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Andy Kaufman
Here’s a most interesting (and bizarre) allegation, from Kaufman’s own brother & a woman claiming to be Andy’s daughter, that Andy did in fact fake his own death. Update: New reports indicate it’s a hoax by Andy’s brother and the … Continue reading
Which Professions Have The Most Psychopaths?
Here’s the definition of psychopathy via the always-reliable Wikipedia: Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has been variously described as characterized by shallow emotions (in particular reduced fear), stress tolerance, lacking empathy, coldheartedness, lacking guilt, egocentricity, superficial character, manipulativeness, irresponsibility, … Continue reading
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Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan
In the current issue of The Freeman is “Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan“, where Max Borders & Jeffrey Tucker discuss some of the bottom-up, libertarian-oriented dynamics rapidly changing society, and with the potential to bypass the State. There’s a brief … Continue reading
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Another One Bites The Dust
… Another domino falls: DESERT HOT SPRINGS, California (Reuters) – A resort town in California warned on Tuesday that it will run out of money by March due to burdensome salary and pension costs and could join other U.S. cities … Continue reading
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CA: Poll Shows GOP Losing Ethnicity, Age Battle
From the LA Times, here’s a harbinger for the rest of the country: Deep inside a new USC/Los Angeles Times poll are details that could make the California Republican Party, and by extension its cohorts elsewhere in the country, fear … Continue reading
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