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Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

“We have not yet learned to see within female ugliness the possibility of transcendent art…”

March 7, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

The Left isn't wrong about everything. The "male gaze" is a real thing. (Thank you — to a man, John Berger — for eloquently popularizing the notion, years before Whatshername came along, I'm … [Read more...]

After her speech about “diversity,” Frances McDormand’s Oscar was stolen by a “black megalomaniac”

March 7, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

Steve Sailer's usual MUST-READ: Moreover, another question for Ms. McDormand might be: “Have you actually watched many of your husband’s movies? If you have, didn’t you notice how intensely white … [Read more...]

David Cole: “I am so sick of David Hogg, the pompadorable Parkland school shooting ‘survivor’ and media-darling gun control activist”

March 6, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

David Cole writes: Seriously, I haven’t seen such a wall of protection around a teenager since that bubble boy from the ’70s. My beef with David Hogg, aside from the fact … [Read more...]

Jim Goad: The Corporate War on Free Speech

March 5, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

Jim Goad writes: How can anyone interpret this as anything more than either a staunch unwillingness, or even an outright inability, on the part of the corporate globalist left to … [Read more...]

“Philip Rieff’s 1973 prophecy has been vindicated: ‘Immediately behind the hippies are the thugs'”

March 2, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

They occupy the remissive space opened up by the hippies, deepening it from an aesthetic into a politics. The self-absorbed therapy of the hippies clears the … [Read more...]

David Baddiel reviews “Jewish Comedy: A Serious History”

March 1, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

David Baddiel in the Times Literary Supplement: Some of its jokes are laugh-out-loud-funny, and some of them are poignantly beautiful, like the one Dauber tells about a … [Read more...]

Hilarious Jill Colton video: “Help Find a Cure For Trudeau”

March 1, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

How can I not like a fellow female INTJ? … [Read more...]

Theo Caldwell: Guessing Justin Trudeau’s mental age

February 28, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

Theo Caldwell writes: Having inherited a family fortune and, effectively, the leadership of the Liberal Party, Justin enjoys a more privileged life than you or I ever will. As … [Read more...]

Sailer reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, “Enlightenment Now”

February 28, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

Steve Sailer writes: The mid-20th-century “Great Migration” from the American South numbered only 6 or 7 million, but it still destroyed Detroit. The much greater migration heading from Africa … [Read more...]

Camille Paglia on Movies, #MeToo and Modern Sexuality: “Endless, Bitter Rancor Lies Ahead”

February 27, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

Camille Paglia writes: A Catholic backlash to Norma Shearer’s free love frolics and Mae West’s wicked double entendres finally forced … [Read more...]

Rick McGinnis: “The last really great polemic on the state of modern art was probably ‘Why Beauty Matters’…”

February 27, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

Rick McGinnis writes: ...an hour-long BBC program hosted by philosopher Roger Scruton almost a decade ago. He begins with a warning: “I think we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that … [Read more...]

“At my [black majority] high school, our head of security was a suave, middle-aged black gentleman who was packing…”

February 27, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

David Cole writes: ...and he made sure we knew it. I saw him draw his weapon only once. My fellow theater geeks and I were rehearsing a production of A Soldier’s Play (plays with … [Read more...]

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