Theo Caldwell writes: Having inherited a family fortune and, effectively, the leadership of the Liberal Party, Justin enjoys a more privileged life than you or I ever will. As … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2018
Sailer reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, “Enlightenment Now”
Steve Sailer writes: The mid-20th-century “Great Migration” from the American South numbered only 6 or 7 million, but it still destroyed Detroit. The much greater migration heading from Africa … [Read more...]
Camille Paglia on Movies, #MeToo and Modern Sexuality: “Endless, Bitter Rancor Lies Ahead”
Camille Paglia writes: A Catholic backlash to Norma Shearer’s free love frolics and Mae West’s wicked double entendres finally forced … [Read more...]
Rick McGinnis: “The last really great polemic on the state of modern art was probably ‘Why Beauty Matters’…”
Rick McGinnis writes: ...an hour-long BBC program hosted by philosopher Roger Scruton almost a decade ago. He begins with a warning: “I think we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that … [Read more...]
“At my [black majority] high school, our head of security was a suave, middle-aged black gentleman who was packing…”
David Cole writes: ...and he made sure we knew it. I saw him draw his weapon only once. My fellow theater geeks and I were rehearsing a production of A Soldier’s Play (plays with … [Read more...]
The Intellectual Dark Web: Guide to “the freethinkers leading the charge”
Douglas Murray writes: On the internet, the situation is completely different. Internet-based programmes like the LA-located Dave Rubin’s show demonstrate an entirely different model. There … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: “The Problem With White Guys These Days”
Jim Goad writes: “What’s it going to take for white men to start talking about race?” Madison asks. Is he serious? I can’t stop talking about it. I could talk about it … [Read more...]
“JFK” (1991) and the soft bigotry of NOLA expectations?
Utterly random: Did a lot of viewers buy the (utterly discredited, even by "buffdom") "Garrison" theory promoted by Oliver Stone's JFK … [Read more...]
Christopher DeGroot: America Needs a Civil War
Christopher DeGroot writes: Never in even his most misanthropic reflections on the degenerate character of the modern world did Nietzsche imagine a man as contemptible as … [Read more...]
“In Praise of Negative Book Reviews”
Hey, thanks for coming out! I wrote book reviews for years but that was a long time ago. In the first place, they have a bad return on investment: The time spent reading the book and then writing the review is in reverse proportion to how much they pay. But also, I didn't write positive … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs: “Making My Peace With Billy Graham”
Joe Bob Briggs knows his evangelical preachers, having written for [Read more...]
“In the early 1980s when I was a schoolboy, my father worked for Oxfam”
"Oxfam’s troubles began when it became politically correct": The focus was on development. Like my dad, most were sandal-clad volunteers who worked for the … [Read more...]