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Category Archives: Culture
War On Christmas – Pt. 52,187
From the progressive, forward-thinking Bordentown Regional School District in NJ: Yet another school district’s decision to crack down on religious Christmas music is already beginning to capture national attention. Just two weeks after Wausau School District in Wausau, Wis., battled over the very … Continue reading
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Peter O’Toole & Orson Welles on Hamlet
From 1963, here is a bombastic Orson Welles and an unpretentiously cerebral Peter O’Toole, discussing Hamlet. O’Toole was playing Hamlet in a Laurence Olivier-directed production at the National Theatre. (The host is Huw Wheldon and the older actor is Ernest … Continue reading
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Academia
“Duke student after my speech last night incredulous at my assertion that half of the population will always be below average in IQ.” — recent tweet by Charles Murray
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The Ghettoization of American Culture
Alfred Clark on “The Ghettoization of American Culture“: Perhaps we’re reaching the terminal stages of what Alexis de Tocqueville labeled the “tyranny of mediocrity,” where this final stage of American depravity culminates in what Elizabeth Wright more recently called the … Continue reading
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Gavin McInnes: Viral
Red Eye regular (and Takimag regular) Gavin McInnes’ anti-feminist rant on Huffington Post Live went viral this past week. What is best about the video is listening to, and then watching the reaction shots of, the two standard-issue, leftist academics … Continue reading
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Parody of Wes Anderson’s Movies
On a lighter note, here’s a pretty good SNL parody of Wes Anderson movies, featuring Edward Norton as Owen Wilson.
Krauthammer Doc
Last night, I watched the one hour FNC special “Charles Krauthammer: A Life That Matters”, hosted by Bret Baier and timed to coincide with his new book Things That Matter. On top of being one of the best mainstream pundits … Continue reading
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Gwyneth
Hating her has become viral. Count me as a longtime hater. I can’t wait for the Vanity Fair piece. Born of wealthy Hollywood royalty parents (she had an “uncle Steven Spielberg”!), she still insists her talent and hard work is … Continue reading
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Was Superman Jewish?
Eddy Portnoy, of the Judaic Studies Program at Rutgers University, reviews Harry Brod’s new book, Superman is Jewish? How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way. Of Brod’s thesis, Portnoy is sceptical: [I]t’s one that … Continue reading