Mark Steyn writes: To secure Lisa-Marie's inheritance, Priscilla set about the belated professionalization of her husband's career. He was posthumously all shook up. She opened Graceland, so that fans could … [Read more...]
“The influential historian Richard Hofstadter, fortified by the highly questionable social science of Theodor Adorno and others…”
...saw authoritarian personalities and anti-intellectual tendencies bristling nearly everywhere in the America west of the Hudson River, tendencies that were the expression, not of a genuinely … [Read more...]
The Beach Boys: “An Arcadian theme in the California pastoral”
Even within the harmonies, there is a strange tension, an off-kilter wobbling as in a machine whose gears are all just a bit off-center. Instruments and voices go in and out of key, tempos slow and quicken. The vocal harmonies are angelic, but troubled, uncertain, maudlin, and underlined with … [Read more...]
“10 Movies So Awful They Were Pulled From Cinemas”
“Hollywood Boulevard” (1976) was made on a bet
Same shit, different century…
Remember when “of no fixed address” was synonymous with “criminal”?
[UPDATED] Shorter Gavin McInnes, Faith Goldy and Ezra Levant: “Surely folks can and should raise concerns about demography, anti-white racism, values and national security…”
"...without having to wear white hoods and carry torches — or get called 'Nazis' when they don't?" Shorter [Read more...]
“The Forgotten World of Communist Bookstores”
Toronto's was on College just east of Spadina... Communist bookstores provided a critical public space for radicals, operating in virtually every major American city. Chicago, Los … [Read more...]
Dark Corners: “Teenage Caveman” (1958)
Jim Goad on Charlottesville (BONUS: black Proud Boy reaction video)
Jim Goad writes: I watched about twenty minutes of a livestream in Charlottesville where a lone white guy with a shaved head and sunglasses had a prolonged standoff with dozens of local blacks … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn on Glen Campbell, Jimmy Web and “Wichita Lineman”
Mark Steyn writes: Whether or not the lineman was thinking about his girlfriend, Jimmy Webb certainly was: Her name was Susan Horton, the homecoming queen at Colton High School. But she married a … [Read more...]