Category Archives: Cultural Marxism

Fergusonismo

Why report the news, when you can help create a national news narrative? In the JYT, Julie Turkewitz (ahem) and Richard Oppel Jr (ahem) have a piece titled “Killing Seen as a ‘Ferguson’ Moment for Hispanics”. The shooting of a … Continue reading

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NPR is Too White

From the ‘You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up’ files, WaPo reports on NPR hand-wringing about it’s intolerable whiteness (Hat tip: AmRen): It’s a question sometimes whispered but never boldly confronted: Does NPR, and public radio in general, sound too “white”? … Continue reading

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Amos Vogel

In “The Limits of American Cinephilia“, Richard Brody provides a glowing profile of leftwing film critic Amos Vogel: In 1947, when he was twenty-six and a student at the New School for Social Research, Vogel founded Cinema 16, a film … Continue reading

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The Court Jesters

The always-excellent Gregory Hood has a great piece on the philosophical dissonance fueling the Stewart/Colbert brand of schtick (“The Court’s Jesters”).

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Ain’t No White-Savior Movie

Each year, Hollywood trots out an obligatory-film-about-black-transcendence. Last year, it was the forgettable Antebellum Porn flick 12 Years a Slave. This year, it’s Selma. Lo and behold, it turns out that Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, is… drumroll… an angry … Continue reading

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SPLC: Most Wanted List

Here’s the SPLC’s hilarious ‘Extremist File’ entry for the dastardly ‘White Supremacist’… Charles Murray! Who knew!

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The Invention of the Jewish Nose

In the New York Review of Books (ahem), Sara Lipton (ahem) has an entire piece on — I’m serious here — “The Invention of the Jewish Nose“. Of medieval, Christian, artistic depictions of Jews: All too often, the power of … Continue reading

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A Cinematic History of White People Crying in Space

Decider, a snarky Gawker type site, has a photo-essay on “A Cinematic History of White People Crying in Space”. The first commenter to the piece has a nice retort: “… and the companion piece is titled “Black men in prison … Continue reading

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“White Men Don’t Catcall. They Harass In Other Ways.”

This from the “Slate Looking More Like The Onion” files — Of the catcalling video, yes, it appears the Left has acknowledged how the said catcallers were all ‘men of color’, but that doesn’t mean that Whitey ain’t doin’ the … Continue reading

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Irving Howe

Adam Kirsch reviews A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe, a posthumous collection of essays by Irving Kristol, a seminal figure in the “New York Intellectuals” scene — i.e., the cadre of radicalized NYC Jews who dominated the … Continue reading

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