Author Archives: eladsinned

Hooray for Hollywood’s Demise

Political radicalization includes cultural radicalization, and just as we abandon old political institutions now seen as corrupted and hostile, we abandon similar cultural institutions. What child of post WWII America would have thought he’d find himself rooting against Hollywood and the movies? Against football? Yet here we are. It’s not just schadenfreude that makes thisContinue reading “Hooray for Hollywood’s Demise”

Let’s Fake a Deal

A lot of analysis or opinion in the media is a sort of veiled negotiation about what we the unwashed are allowed to believe. That’s the impression I get reading this New York Times piece from David Reich, acknowledging race realism while denouncing “racism” (which is arguably impossible): Groundbreaking advances in DNA sequencing technology have beenContinue reading “Let’s Fake a Deal”

Oy J

Travis LeBlanc at Counter Currents: Recently, FOX aired a program entitled “O. J. Simpson: the Lost Confession.” The program showed clips from a 2006 interview where O. J. Simpson talks “hypothetically” about murdering his wife Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The interview was originally intended to promote Simpson’s book If I Did It, his clumsy attemptContinue reading “Oy J”

Six Degrees of Literally Hitler

So far the clampdown on right wing speech continues to expand, with virtually no resistance from elected officials, including the president. Not only are platforms shutting down political content, the old-fashioned means of chilling speech through public shaming has become more aggressive. Guilt by association gets more invasive and tenuous at the same time guiltContinue reading “Six Degrees of Literally Hitler”

Bush’s War on its Quinceanera

Matt Taibbi on the Iraq War fifteen years on: But that’s not how our rulers sold the war to themselves. They weren’t overcome with emotion, or some post-9/11 yearning for vengeance. They knew what they were doing. The Iraq invasion, one of the great crimes of this or any age and destined to be a crossroadsContinue reading “Bush’s War on its Quinceanera”