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Category Archives: Culture
NYC: Aspiring Actress Hit With 108 Catcalls in 10 Hours
The video below is making the rounds on news sites (e.g., NY Daily News; CNN; HuffPo; etc). A woman wearing jeans and a crewneck t-shirt walked around NYC for ten hours with a hidden (to everyone else) camera fixed on … Continue reading
Tall Buildings
“If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.’” — Joseph Campbell (Hat tip: Alain de Botton)
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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
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Jewish, National
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Infected by Politics
The great Heather MacDonald has a brief column on political correctness at the CDC: The public-health establishment has unanimously opposed a travel and visa moratorium from Ebola-plagued West African countries to protect the U.S. population. To evaluate whether this opposition … Continue reading
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NYT: When Racism Was a Science
Here is how a hilariously hysterical NYT article titled “When Racism Was a Science” begins: An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring … Continue reading
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Houston’s Lesbian Mayor Subpoenas Pastors For Their Sermons
The Gay Mafia, which has permeated the highest levels of government, inches further toward Full Totalitarianism Mode: The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise … Continue reading
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The Narcissism Epidemic
Mark Bauerlein points to a finding by Twenge & Campbell: … Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, co-authors of The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (2009), show astounding rates of narcissism for teens today, for instance, a … Continue reading
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Midlife Crises
From an article on “The Myth of the Midlife Crisis”: In a 2008 study of 500,000 Americans and Europeans, economists Andrew Oswald of the U.K.’s University of Warwick and David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College say life satisfaction reaches a low … Continue reading
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Rep. Samuel Dickstein
In Politico, Peter Duffy profiles Samuel Dickstein, a Jewish émigré from Lithuania who became a U.S. Congressman (and later a NY State Supreme Court justice) and who, as a U.S. Congressman, actively spied for the Soviet Union: Samuel Dickstein was … Continue reading
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The Culture of Narcissism: Pt. 34,192,313
In many ways, Slate embodies the Epoch of Self-Actualization which the Sixties wrought, the cultural trajectory that Christopher Lasch masterfully chronicled in his still-poignant book The Culture of Narcissism (1979). I suppose this column, and the repose with which the … Continue reading
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