(I like my title better!) Yet the sprinklings of patriotic, almost Capra-esque populism that softened The Fountainhead’s unavoidable elitism are absent entirely in her follow-up, Atlas Shrugged, … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2017
Trailers From Hell: “Annie Hall” (1977)
I basically know this movie by heart. It was a very big deal for me when I was 13 (while the rest of you were wasting your time with Star Wars.) That was probably a bad thing in retrospect, but I've mostly … [Read more...]
Screen Junkies: “Who is the Greatest Director of The 1970s?”
Reading Mark Steyn on the songs of Burt Bacharach…
...the only thing I can think of, pre-coffee, is how much I admire Bacharach's (and Hal David's) theme song for The Blob. Imagine being a jobbing songwriter, and getting stuck with that assignment. And … [Read more...]
Jim Goad on the latest “even babies are racist” “studies”
Jim Goad writes: But the natural-born instinct for “group survival”—at least when manifested among whites—has been twisted into a mental pathology of the highest order, the Original Sin of our times. In … [Read more...]
Blogging resumes Monday morning…
Hey, who’s up for a 4+ hour conversation about “They Live” (1988)?
Tim Sommer: “You’re an Idiot if You’re Mad at John Lydon for Praising Trump and Brexit”
I touched on this briefly here. Now the always interesting Tim Sommer: John Lydon is 61. Again, here I note that I once knew … [Read more...]
David Harsanyi: Why “Fight Club” Still Matters
I'm a little late with this (and left a comment complaining about Pulp Fiction)... It’s about boredom, another unappreciated and destructive human condition. The English punks of the … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn and Jordan Peterson in conversation: Need I say more?
“Checkmate”: Gavin McInnes on Trump’s missile strike on Syria
Gavin McInnes writes: The Middle East is all about theatrics. Palestinians stage so many pretend attacks they call it “Pallywood.” There are false flags all over the place, from fake car-bomb attacks to the … [Read more...]