Category Archives: Culture

The Re-Burning of Sasha Fleischman

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Max West

“The Burning of Sasha Fleischman” occurred in 2013, but you wouldn’t think so given the NYT’s front page story: Why revisit a story that’s two years old? Because, to quote Steve Sailer, we’re in the midst of World War T, … Continue reading →

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McDonald’s Coffee

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Max West

For the past year and a half (or so), whenever I’d be on the road with a hankerin’ for some java (which is maybe once every few weeks), I’d stop at… McDonald’s. Why, you ask? Because for the past few … Continue reading →

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This Blows

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Max West

And so we find out that Charles Blow’s son (of whom, a couple days ago, he went on an un-retractable Twitter rampage against ghosts) was stopped by… drumroll… a black cop, not a white one. Imagine that. From Breitbart: Charles … Continue reading →

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Liberal Hand-Wringing about P.C.

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Max West

On campuses today, “microaggressions” and “trigger warnings” are logical entailments of the dialectics of Political Correctness, and serve as a more militant re-packaging of first generation P.C. circa 1991. Jonathan Chait, himself a liberal, bemoans things, especially insofar as P.C. … Continue reading →

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Walzer: Islamism & the Left

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Max West

Writing in Dissent, longtime Jewish enthocentrist lefty Michael Walzer discusses “Islamism and the Left“. It’s almost embarassing to listen to (or read) the Left contort itself into a pretzel while discussing Islam. As the reality of contemporary Islam becomes more … Continue reading →

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Dean Redux

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Max West

On Bill Maher’s show, self-loathing white Howard Dean lets out two howlers. First we have this one: Bill Maher tonight confronted Howard Dean for saying earlier this month that the Paris terrorists are “about as Muslim as I am,” challenging … Continue reading →

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Blown Gasket

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Max West

Angry Black Man NYT columnist Charles Blow is blowing a gasket because his Yale undergrad son got stopped by the Po-pos. He frantically tweeted the following: Like Skip Gates, black race merchants literally want to create racial confrontation and controversy… … Continue reading →

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Lutz Bachmann Resigns From PEGIDA

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Max West

Lutz Bachmann, leader of PEGIDA, has been ousted for the usual reasons: Orwellian opposition to alleged ‘hatespeech’ and/or for offending P.C. sensitivities, this time in the form of a photo of him looking like Hitler: (CNN)As thousands-strong anti-Islamization rallies make … Continue reading →

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The Essence of Davos

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Max West

Via Steven Duffield via Charles Murray: Everything you need to know about Davos, in one tweet: http://j.mp/1DZlzpX

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Amos Vogel

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Max West

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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