Taki's weekly roundup includes: In other words, if you refuse to submit to some mental case’s demand that you refer to them in their preferred pronoun of “xe,” “xir,” or … [Read more...]
“‘Bigger Than Life’ (1956) has been reevaluated, and is considered by many to be Ray’s masterpiece”
Jill Blake writes: Along with the sweeping biblical epics and splashy musicals synonymous with the 1950s, filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Delmer Daves and Nicholas Ray left … [Read more...]
After “Oranges”: Following John McPhee to Florida
Wyatt Williams writes: In the winter of 1965, an ambitious writer met with William Shawn, the famously autocratic editor of … [Read more...]
Julie Burchill: “What is this alt-hate, this caring, sharing cruelty?”
Julie Burchill writes: It sounds strange coming from someone who has made a lovely life out of peddling vitriol for pleasure and profit, but I’ve been amazed — and not a … [Read more...]
Andrew Lawton: “You’d think there were Qur’an burnings on every street corner in Canada…”
Andrew Lawton writes: With the announcement from Statistics Canada that police-reported hate crimes against Muslims increased in 2015 — the most … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn: “The Great Fire of New London”
Mark Steyn writes: In the "global cities", someone has to foam the latte, and maintain the Tube tunnels, and clean the hospitals - and there are no Londoners or Parisians left. And so, in a … [Read more...]
“Only an idiot would think that a 61-year-old black woman who has spent much of her life in academia would benefit from sensitivity training”
Charlotte Hays profiles Carol Swain (RTWT): While the petition was circulated in November, the controversy grew from a column Swain authored in January of that year for the daily newspaper, the Tennessean. It was in response to the … [Read more...]
CNN: That irritating noise you hear at the airport
Journalists: Your moral and intellectual superiors! BONUS hilarity: … [Read more...]
MUST WATCH: Vice reports growing threat of far right extremism in Canada: They meet at Denny’s, guys!!
Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, Vol. XVII
Fake news as propaganda can be traced back to WWII, where the English made up news about the Nazi's to inflame people and make them fight harder. … [Read more...]
Pat Buchanan: “A Long History of Leftist Hatred”
Pat leaves out Jim Jones, Ira Einhorn, Charles Manson, the MOVE cult, the guy who invented Kwanzaa, the FLQ... … [Read more...]
“Grenfell is a shameful symbol of a state that didn’t care”: Good.
Except they'll never learn the lessons they should, right? [Read more...]