This is a typical story: This savagery seemed to slip into her home life. Carter resented being saddled with the domestic work in her marriage. “It never ends, the buggering about with dirty dishes, … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2017
One day we’ll find out the Scottsboro Boys were guilty…
Is there anything the cynical, snarky, brainwashing Left HASN'T been wrong about? Consider the infamous Duck and Cover cartoon (1951), cautioning school kids how to survive a … [Read more...]
Jonathan Kay: “It was only after I left my last job, where I was the only Jew in an office of several dozen (white) gentiles…”
Jonathan Kay writes: ...that I realised how much my religious background had contributed to the ideological gulf between me and my colleagues. This came out most clearly in editorial discussions about … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: Scream, losers, scream!
From our bulging "If Trump is Hitler, why aren't you a lampshade" files, Jim Goad writes: On both November 4 and 8, I will be watching with intense joy as the sorest losers in world history take it … [Read more...]
F. H. Buckley: Beware the incredible “pain monsters” we’ve created at Yale and other schools
F. H. Buckley writes: The interesting question is not whether the pain is real. Rather, the question is why … [Read more...]
Theodore Dalrymple: Che Guevara and patent medicine
Theodore Dalrymple writes: As Napoleon once said, repetition is the only rhetorical technique that really works—besides which hope and fear render people susceptible to effrontery. In … [Read more...]
“How did a sculptor with neo-Confederate leanings find a home in a leading liberal salon?”
More implicitly than explicitly, then, Snyder shows how the upper echelons of American liberalism have long been able to accommodate … [Read more...]
Sailer: “The secret behind Ta-Nehisi Coates’ appeal to white liberals is that he’s not very smart” — and he’s the black Glenn Beck
Need I tell you that this is a must-read? And that’s not all Coates could remember from his first forty years of life. His memoir also included the celebrated story of how Coates … [Read more...]
Douglas Murray reviews new biography: The fearless life of Oriana Fallaci
Douglas Murray writes: Then the dormant volcano exploded. After 9/11, when the dust of human remains and rubble was still hanging over New York, Fallaci broke her … [Read more...]
Pre-Code.com looks at “Freaks” (1932)
The first time I saw Freaks was a dark night about 15 years ago in Columbia, Missouri. I was a member of a cult movie club that found an empty common room … [Read more...]
Finally: Tom Petty wasn’t THAT great, says someone
Tim Sommer writes (mostly about Rolling Stone actually): The peculiar … [Read more...]
Jim Goad on Corey Feldman and the Hollywood “casting crib”
In a bit of a counterpoint to David Cole's column last week, here's [Read more...]