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Author Archives: Max West
On the 10th Anniversary of “Step Brothers” (2008)
Why does every culture-related interview have to inject Trumphitler? What is amazing is how insular their world is, so insular and monolithic in political opinion that journalistic interviewers, when interviewing A-listers and whatnot, have full confidence that their Trump insults … Continue reading
NYT’s Q&A w/Billy Joel
Virtually every NYT culture story injects Trumphitler into the mix. They just can’t help themselves (“Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head”). After sustained Q&A about his musical past and present, the reporter (Rob Tannenbaum) throws out … Continue reading
Judas Priest – Victim of Changes (1983; live)
In 1983, this is how you did it. Fantastic rendition, with the band firing on all cylinders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDzutIb6p6I
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Religiosity & Ethnicity: Jewish Identity Trends in the U.S.
Cohen, S.M. 2001. “Religiosity and ethnicity: Jewish identity trends in the United States”, in Who owns Judaism? Public religion and private Faith in America and Israel, vol. XVII, ed. E. Lederhendler, pp. 101-130. Oxford University Press. Cohen identifies 6 dimensions … Continue reading
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No Good Heroes in an Occupation
If you look underneath the surface, the world of contemporary B-movies (aka ‘straight to video’) contains a plethora of films channeling the zeitgeist’s inner anxieties about illegal immigration. Two recent examples: Occupation (2018): A small group of town residents have … Continue reading
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Religion as a Channel of Jewish Ethnicity
From “Accounting for Jewish Secularism: Is a New Cultural Identity Emerging?” by Bruce A. Phillips. Source: Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 30, No. 1, Special Issue: Jewish Secularism (June 2010), pp. 63-85: All Jewish immigrants, regardless of when they came, brought with them … Continue reading
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The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew
Excerpt from Abraham Myerson’s “The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew,” Mental Hygiene 4 (1920): 65–72: It is idle, of course, to deny that the Jew has an innate character, different from that of other races, which perhaps predisposes him to psychoneuroses … Continue reading
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Jews and Race (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought) (2011)
Jews and Race (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought) (2011) Edited by Mitchell B. Hart Published by Brandeis University Press Publisher’s Summary: Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants … Continue reading
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
What role mass protests (and movement politics) have in our decentralized, spontaneous, cell phone era is a conundrum for both the Radical Left and the Alt Right. Though naturally focused on various Marxist scholars’ analyses, this New Yorker piece is … Continue reading
The Alternative Hypothesis
After reading this Alt-Right-inside-baseball interview with Ryan Faulk (aka The Alternative Hypothesis), I checked out his YT channel: The Alternative Hypothesis. Check out this stellar 13 min video. Great stuff. https://youtu.be/P78Zd8265_k
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