Category Archives: Culture

Happy Easter from the NYT!

12+ hours later from my previous post on lead NYT stories and it’s still pretty much the same thing. While Google completely ignores Easter (the equivalent of flipping its middle finger to white Christians), here are the lead evening stories … Continue reading

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Foolish Grad School Decisions

So, maybe getting that PhD in African art history was not such a smart thing after all… for a [1](white) girl. It might’ve worked in 2008, but not in virtue-spiraling 2018: The Brooklyn Museum has sparked outrage in the black … Continue reading

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NYC: When the Parasites Become the Majority

In “Everything You Love Will Be Eaten Alive”, Nathan Robinson discusses Jeremiah Ross’ book Vanishing New York: How A Great City Lost Its Soul: Essentially, New York City used to be a gruff, teeming haven for weirdos and ethnic minorities. … Continue reading

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The Hogg Zone

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Aldous Huxley on Techno-Dictators

Lefties never imagined that the techno-dictators might be an SJW form of dictatorship.

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Smarter Living

In the NYT ‘Smarter Living’ section (right next to a story on “Why It’s Still Worth Getting a Flu Shot”) is “How Do I Deal With My Anger Towards Men?” In it, a reader who names herself ‘Justifiably Angry Feminist’ … Continue reading

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Barry & Shannon

What is the deal super-wealthy Hollywood ‘globalists’ cloning their dogs? First, we read of Barbara Streisand cloning hers, then we find out today that it was Barry Diller who convinced her, after cloning his own dog with its shiksa-like backstory: … Continue reading

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Africa Speaks! (1930)

Africa Speaks! Mascot Pictures, 1930 (Morgan Litho. Corp., Cleveland). Three sheet (81 x 41”). Film documenting Paul L. Hoefler’s 1928 African expedition. Directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. You can bid here for this vintage poster. There’s … Continue reading

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Leonard Bernstein’s Radical Chic

In 1970, before the term ‘limousine liberal’ was coined, the great Tom Wolfe coined the phrase ‘radical chic’, which was the title of his famous long-form NY Magazine piece (“Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s”). It’s a seminal piece of … Continue reading

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NPR: Gross & Weisman Discussing… (Take a Wild Guess)

If you can stomach the sounds of two ‘globalists’ kibbutzing and wringing their hands about the dastardly Alt Right, this NPR interview that thee unbearably sanctimonious Terry Gross has with Jonathan Weisman is chock full of paranoia and cognitive dissonance. … Continue reading

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