Well, not nothing. There’s something to the final image in the final episode (I’m not going to spoil it. Watch and you’ll understand me). But it comes across as incredibly anti-climactic, given the sturm und drang it tries to build. I watched it last night, and my initial response was “non-ending”. Which, on further reflection,… Read More The End of House of Cards: Sound and Fury Signifies Nothing
The inestimable John McWhorter: It’s been a shoe that had yet to drop. The praise for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical phenomenon has been resoundingly unanimous. There are already plans for a touring production, one in London plus a sit-down production in San Francisco. Miranda has performed for the president. The cast album has won a Grammy,… Read More There are Never Enough Witches for the Witch-Hunters: Hamilton and Race-Flailing
First, a nice Mark Steyn obit on Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston makes a salient point: But, if you’re a feminist or a gay or any of the other house pets in the Democrat menagerie, you might want to look at Rahm Emanuel’s pirouette, and Menino’s coziness with Islamic homophobia. These guys are about power,… Read More Authority, Misandry, and Mixing: A Few Links to Start the Week
Discharged from the Naval Reserve after testing positive for cocaine? Regrettable. But to begin disbarrment hearings? That would require conviction of a crime. Prosecute him? For Cocaine? Why would we do that?
Daddy Warpig has the details. It’s tempting to read too much into this and declare victory. But even if this is as bad as it gets for the SJWs, it’s still far below what they intended to achieve. In any event, this isn’t over. SJW’s maybe lifelong converts to a cause, but gamers are not… Read More GamerGate Scores: Intel Pulls Ads
First, the lovely indictment not just of Senator Landrieu, but of all that she represents: Second, a detail exposition of his poltical conversion: This man is going to be pilloried. He’s going to be called Uncle Tom, Oreo, race traitor, inauthetically black. That has been standard operating procedure on the poltical left for decades. It’s… Read More It is a Good Day to Meet Elbert Guillory
Historical Racism, defined either as discrimination formalized in law or as open white supremacist hostility, has ceased to excite progressives in proportion to the degree it has vanished from American public life. In order to maintain their cultural edge, the Left has instead declared war on the more nebulous (and thus, easier to accuse) “White… Read More I Was Supposed to Get a Pass: Stephen Colbert’s White Privelege, and Other Exercises in Doublethink
David P. Goldman, whose magisterial good sense is to be found all over his “Spengler” column, analyzes secular progressivism as a post-Protestant religion, aimed less at promulgating sound public policy than at creating a means of saving America from its sins: Joseph Bottum, by contrast, examines post-Protestant secular religion with empathy, and contends that it… Read More Yes, Secularism is a Religion, and Here are its Witch Trials
By RS McCain. Myerson is the bourgeois equivalent of the kind of semi-educated twerp who slicks his hair to that Fuhrer emo-flop and quibbles about exactly how many Jews died in the so-called holocaust. Apologetics for an ideology with Communism’s body count ought to be a one-way ticket to a compound in Idaho, printing off… Read More Useful Idiot Jesse Myerson Gets Slapped Around Like a Red-Head Stepchild
I first read Ayn Rand in college, and enjoyed her insofar as she expressed things I had previously pondered but never fully articulated. Her philosophy attempted to wed Aristotle with dialectical materialism, and I’m not entirely sure how well she pulled it off. But she did hit upon some under-spoken truths in her major works,… Read More The Discreet Charms of the New Class
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