Category Archives: Culture

Niall Ferguson’s Candor => P.C. Inquisition

Professor tosses off an offhand, albeit plausible, hypothesis about a Saint of the Left’s penchant for minimizing long term risk.. P.C wrath ensues: Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and author, apologized on Saturday for saying economist John Maynard Keynes … Continue reading

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Mountain Don’t

PepsiCo has yanked a Mountain Dew ad because of it’s ‘racial insensivity’ (Can’t have any of that. You must not think bad thoughts.) The soda and snack food company said it immediately pulled the 60-second spot after learning that people … Continue reading

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When Prophecy Fails

At Jim’s Blog, a post on the notion of Left Singularity has spurred some excellent discussion on the subject. Jim writes: We are seeing a political singularity – the leftwards slide that has been under way since 1710 or so … Continue reading

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White Males Need Not Apply – Pt. 3,411,812

More discrimination from the ‘diversity’ crowd: An agent looking to hire a new host for Kids’ CBC has retracted a casting call which declared they were looking for “any race except Caucasian” after receiving questions about the exclusion…. The search … Continue reading

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Fort Knox

Amanda Knox is paid $4 million for her autobiography? And by HarperCollins no less. Why? What book-worthiness is there in her ‘life story’? It’s another sign, I suppose, of how base and degraded our culture has become. Meanwhile, the same … Continue reading

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Donald Kagan: “Democracy May Have Had Its Day”

80-year old Yale classics scholar Donald Kagan gave his ‘farewell’ lecture this past Thursday. He is of a generation that cherished the Western tradition: Universities, he proposed, are failing students and hurting American democracy. Curricula are “individualized, unfocused and scattered.” … Continue reading

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As CA Goes, So Goes The Nation – Pt. 137,229

From the AP, an item we can add to the ‘Look to CA if You Want to See the Future of America’ archives: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would make the state … Continue reading

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Gay Marriage => Polygamy => ?…

Since the earliest days of the gay marriage debate (qua Culture Wars), a strong argument laid out against gay marriage has been that, once one accepts the notion that homosexual couples have a ‘natural right’ to be married, then one … Continue reading

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Joan Walsh’s Worldview

Regarding the Borat Brothers, Salon’s uber-liberal & always-sanctimonious Joan Walsh describes them as “a product of America as well as a product of alienation.” She also believes that “race is entirely a political and social construct.” How are we losing … Continue reading

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Dark Enlightenment

In “Visualizing Neoreaction“, the Habitable Worlds blog has an interesting post on the growing smorgasbord of ‘neoreactionary movement’ (of which the blog of yours truly would be defined as). Hat tip: HBD Chick. It’s a sign of maturity that the … Continue reading

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