Toby Guise writes: After all, who needs to work for grace when it’s already crowding the shelves of the consumer economy? Who needs to sacrifice their time and their … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2018
“Black Panther’s blatant conservatism” shows that “this decade’s cultural energies are flowing toward the right”
Steve Sailer writes: Since its first self-produced film, 2008’s Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr., Marvel has tilted subtly to the right. For example, Iron Man 2 in 2010 was the … [Read more...]
David Cole: “Feminists and trannies are like Stalin and Hitler”
David Cole writes: So why is there such strong anti-trans sentiment in leftist socialist “let’s arrest children for hate speech” U.K.? Well, my guess is, the more far-left the nation, the … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: How to Exploit a High School Shooting
Jim Goad writes: The ADL certainly didn’t offer any updates about the fact that Cruz claims his mother was Jewish, which would make him one of those White Supremacist … [Read more...]
I always hated “I Love Lucy.” Now I have another reason.
Yes, Lucille Ball was a gifted female show-biz entrepreneur, although she was preceded by Gertrude Berg, who receives only one-one-millionth of the credit for doing the same sort of thing years … [Read more...]
Nobody listens to me… Ban schools, not guns.
I wrote this in 2012 and stand by every word: A survey of popular culture indicates that attitudes about compulsory public education have drastically devolved. Children have always hated … [Read more...]
“A new book suggests the Catholic-born icon was more spiritual than the “beatnik” label suggests”
Rather old news, but the American Conservative seems to think not. (And "of the end of time" is the only variety of "eschatology" there is, … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer on “Black Panther” and “the real Wakanda” — Ethiopia
Steve Sailer writes: Wakanda, as you may have heard, is vibrant due to its massive deposits of vibranium, a literal Magic Dirt, which proves Trump is racist. Or something. Nobody can quite … [Read more...]
David Cole: What “hood pranks” reveal about the “collapsing” black “community”
David Cole writes another must-read: You may not know this, but there’s an entire subgenre of YouTube prank videos in which white, Asian, and Hispanic pranksters venture into black … [Read more...]
Julie Burchill on Katie Price, tall-poppy syndrome and “social racism”
Julie Burchill writes: Last week, Katie Price addressed Parliament on the subject of social media trolling – which her 15-year-son is particularly affected by, due to his weight, ethnicity … [Read more...]
Jim Goad on Quentin Tarantino, x eleventy
Hey, are you sick of me slagging Tarantino? Which I also did [Read more...]
Peter Hitchens seems vexed that not every book ever written was intended for him. Also that he didn’t write it.
Naturally, Peter Hitchens pretends to find Jordan Peterson's appeal somewhat baffling, and his prescriptions lacking. I say "pretends" because Hitchens has the … [Read more...]