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Category Archives: Culture
T.S. Eliot & the Hipster
In “When T.S. Eliot Invented the Hipster”, Karen Prior aptly traces roots of hipsterdom to the protagonist of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”: In a keen essay on the hipster at The New York Times, Christy Wampole … Continue reading
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Atlantic Writer Quits “Teach For America”
Standard progressive naivety about how the world works often leads to hilarious unintended consequences and cognitive dissonance. Muslims hate us? Release more Gitmo detainees and they’ll like us! When it comes to the abject failure and social pathologies of urban … Continue reading
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”).
Posted in Cultural Marxism
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Give It Time…
Progress marches ever onward… with the occasional hiccup: Duke University is backing away from a proposal earlier this week to allow a weekly call to prayer for Muslim students at the Duke Chapel bell tower. The proposal would have involved, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Death of the West, Islam, Political Correctness
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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
Posted in Black, Cultural Marxism, Film
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Whitey Lurking in “Blue Bloods”
Here’s a hilariously sanctimonious Slate column with the click-baity title “Breathe Easily, White America” that tackles the dastardly ‘white privilege’ lurking in the CBS show Blue Bloods: Blue Bloods is currently the most popular network television show on Friday nights—though … Continue reading
Posted in Political Correctness, Race, TV
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Scalise “Regrets” Speech
From Politico: Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise is in full damage control mode and has publicly apologized for a 2002 speech to a white supremacist group. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders also issued statements of support for Scalise … Continue reading
Posted in Political Correctness, White Identity
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Newsweek Wishes You a Merry Christmas!
It’s the holiest of Christian holidays, so cue the Time or Newsweek cover story villifying Christianity. This year, we have official Tribe member (and ethically-challenged journalist) Kurt Eichenwald with a cover story on “The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin“. … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture Wars, Jewish
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How Far We’ve Come
The following is the opening paragraph to a review of “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather” in what is typically cited as a preeminent ‘conservative’ publication, The Weekly Standard: This volume includes 566 letters, less than one-fifth of those that … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Political Correctness
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JYT: 12/26/14
Christmas is always a busy day for Jewish ethnocentrism & anti-Christian sentiment. Here’s the current Most-Emailed list on the NYT: Meanwhile, the NYT Obit features today is quite Tribal:
Posted in Culture Wars, Jewish, MSM, NYT
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