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Category Archives: Culture
Sokal, Elfwick, McGrath LLC
Some months back, when the story was first circulating, I’d never read up on the details of this incident. It turns out it was a brilliant Sokal Hoax 2.0. Bottom Line: PC has gotten so surreal, it is getting increasingly … Continue reading
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#MeToo’s Next Step: “The Gray Areas”
In Jezebel, there’s an article/column (there’s little distinction between the two on that site) that is a goldmine of absurdity, albeit a natural trajectory, for the #MeToo Harpies (“The Next Step for #MeToo Is Into the Gray Areas”). Written by … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Culture Wars, Political Correctness
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The Marvelous Subversion of Mrs. Maisel
The 1950s has long been the Left’s favorite punching bag. To those of the loud, urban, NYC-pseudo-intellectual milieu, the small towns of Mayberry, and wherever Ozzie and Harriet and ‘the Beave’ lived, are jokes, absurdist romanticizations of an era that … Continue reading
Rabbi Brody’s Peppermint Schtick
Richard Brody (the famed New Yorker movie critic whose worldview and appearance are very much that of a rabbi) is not a fan of films which feature Gentile white people. He intimates their time is done, their epoch over. It … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-White, Culture Wars, Film, Jewish
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The Songs of Jeong & Lee
The late founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, is famous for observing: “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.” This axiom led Yew … Continue reading
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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
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
Nazi Faces in the Clouds
We live in an era when Leftists see Neo-Nazis in the clouds. This strange sort of Rorschach projection has accelerated in recent years, with SJWs seeing KKK hoods in a woman wrapped in a blanket, Janeane Garofalo saying she heard … Continue reading
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Leonard the Liberator
From David Denby’s review of Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein: As a young man, Leonard Bernstein was prodigiously gifted and exceptionally handsome, and he slept with many men and with … Continue reading
Roger Kimball on Tom Wolfe
Nobody strings together a sentence quite like Roger Kimball. Here he is discussing the late Tom Wolfe: One thing that Wolfe’s extravagant style at first obscured was the deep conservatism of his world view, moral and political as well as aesthetic. … Continue reading
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