Jim Goad writes: That’s tremendously righteous of you, Mr. No God. But the plank in your eye is the fact that you’ve gullibly lied prostrate before pseudo-religious terms such as … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2017
Derb reviews Douglas Murray’s “The Strange Death of Europe”
John Derbyshire writes: While of course I wish no ill to persons of either inclination, a homosexual neocon would not be my first choice of … [Read more...]
Scott Adams: The Turn to “Effective, but we don’t like it”
Scott Adams writes: How does the anti-Trump media gracefully pivot from “chaos and incompetence” to a story of “effective, but we don’t like it”? They need an external … [Read more...]
“World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich”
There are hundreds of archival documents indicating Nazi attempts to differentiate between occult charlatanry and putatively “scientific occultism.” During the Second World War, the German Navy, … [Read more...]
“I know readers who have thrown this book across a room…”
Dwight Garner on Paul Fussell’s Class (1983) A prickly observer of language, he notes that “an important class divide falls between those who feel veneration before the … [Read more...]
Julie Burchill: “Diana was the people’s diva”
Julie Burchill writes: Twenty years in August since Diana died. The anniversary is sad for me on many levels — she was definitely the final famous person I’ll have a pash on, and it reminds … [Read more...]
“The political consequences of Norman Mailer and Norman Podhoretz’s friendship”
Paula Marantz Cohen writes: How much influence could a book review possibly have? Judging from Norman Mailer’s review of Norman Podhoretz’s 1967 memoir, Making It, a lot. Serving as a catchall and a coda for … [Read more...]
“Targets” (1968): “Proof there are still good movies to be made”
So how did a newcomer like Peter Bogdanovich manage to convince Roger Corman to let him make this film? After a chance meeting, Corman expressed his … [Read more...]
“I Don’t Think Black People Really Understand How Tired Everyone Else Is Of Hearing How Hard It Is To Be Black”
James Fulford writes: “Violent past” means, among other unspecified violences committed when he was a member of the … [Read more...]
“DUNKIRK” — “People Should Be Hung From Lampposts, They Should Be Burned Alive, For What They’ve Done To Britain”
Peter Brimelow writes: So I went to see this movie DUNKIRK at the urging of James Kirkpatrick, VDARE.com’s lead … [Read more...]
Ann Coulter: Pretty White Australian Girls’ Lives Matter
Ann Coulter writes: As usually happens when Muslims attack, the press is consumed with worry about their mental state and well-being. (…) That’s why a Somali cop’s … [Read more...]