David Cole writes: Richard Wolstencroft is a friend of mine. He’s appeared on my podcast, and I’ve appeared with him on other people’s podcasts. He’s a typical Aussie—gregarious, boisterous, … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: No, Charles Manson wasn’t a “right winger”
Jim Goad gets the last word in a must-read (and -bookmark): Would anyone care to explain the fact that the Manson Family first took root in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district … [Read more...]
“‘[P]ostmodernism’ (…) might be better described as ‘pre-emptive kitsch’”
Roger Scruton writes: Pre-emptive kitsch offers fake emotions, and at the same time a pretended rejection of the thing it offers. The kitsch work of art is not a … [Read more...]
“Fascism Came To America Wrapped In A Rainbow Flag And Wearing A Pussyhat”
Caitlin Johnstone writes something that, as usual, will annoy everyone: So while Trump leads his American flag-wrapped, … [Read more...]
Had Orwell lived past 1950…
Ben Judah isn't a fan: Orwell was no visionary when it comes to economics, either. Recall his Floating Fortresses in 1984, explicitly designed to eat up the surplus production of a population. His inability to … [Read more...]
Is James Damore really in trouble over a masturbation joke?
Christopher DeGroot writes: The former chess prodigy is now blacklisted from the big tech companies, despite having, in the language of the corporate … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: “The female sex has shown that their emotional responses have not yet evolved to deal well with modern visual media”
Steve Sailer writes: Women tend to be too impressed by the men on screen and too hell-bent to get themselves on screen. In one of Philip Roth’s lesser novels, The Dying Animal, the … [Read more...]
Damon Root: When the punk rock thought police ruled the scene
Damon Root writes: The freakout over Agnostic Front's politically incorrect punk came to a head when Miret, Stigma, and bassist Rob Kabula agreed to be interviewed for … [Read more...]
“Behind every word of Amis’s corpus, Wilde lurks…”
Look again at Amis on Burroughs – at his “weary instancing” of King Lear as a reproof to those who imagine that a work of art can be depressing. This is Wilde, in “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” (1891): “To call an … [Read more...]
David Cole: “This ‘Harassocaust’ has resulted in many humorous ironies”
David Cole writes: Two weeks ago, feminist TV producer Jill Soloway (of Amazon’s tranny comedy Transparent) cheered the downfall of dick-dangling funnyman Louis C.K., whom Soloway had … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: Half of US colleges will be “bankrupt within 10 to 15 years”
Jim Goad writes: I’m paying the government to train people to hate people such as me. I work 365 days a year and have been doing so for nearly a decade. Your average American teacher works … [Read more...]
Charles Manson finally dies
Susan Atkins. "Tex" Watson. "Squeaky" Fromme. Leslie Van Houten. Linda Kasabian. ...something Krenwinkle... A while back, caught up in a transportational reverie of the sort induced on buses and subways, I wondered: How … [Read more...]