Learning from Higher Learning

The ground for Hollywood’s current sex hysteria was being laid decades ago in higher education, where, like Hollywood, rampant messy sex presented feminists first with a crisis, and then with an opportunity: to leverage sexual abuse accusations into the loot of professorships and programs. So far the crisis it presents, to feminist theory, which noContinue reading “Learning from Higher Learning”

Frame Game Radio on Torah Talk

Joining us tomorrow on Luke Ford’s Torah Talk Live is the video-auteur behind Frame Game Radio on YouTube and Twitter. 9 AM Pacific, noon on the East Coast. Go to Luke’s channel, join the chat to ask us questions. Subscribe while you’re there. We’re getting more viewers all the time and the chat is occasionally brilliant, likeContinue reading “Frame Game Radio on Torah Talk”

Racial Communism

Frame Game Radio on the current clampdown. Before the alt right and this new paradigm, whatever it is, words like “Nazi” and “communist” had already lost some meaning to overuse, so a phrase like “racial communism” now might not get the credit it deserves. It’s not just that the racial identity politics of the presentContinue reading “Racial Communism”

Take your Beating or be a Racist

Via Steve Sailer,here’s a Washington Post opinion piece on the real reason we shouldn’t arm teachers. One might defend himself: But putting guns into the hands of schoolteachers would be extraordinarily dangerous for black and Latino students, who are already often forced to try to learn in hostile environments where they’re treated as threats. How longContinue reading “Take your Beating or be a Racist”

Honor Among Thieves

From the chapter on Gypsies in Manners, Customs, and Dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix (free on Kindle): This alliance–governed by statutes, the honour of compiling which has been given to a certain Ragot, who styled himself captain–was composed of matois, or sharpers; of mercelots, or hawkers, who were veryContinue reading “Honor Among Thieves”

Mein Kampf and Torah walk into a podcast…

Talking about Mein Kampf again on Luke Ford’s Torah Talk Live. Subscribe to Luke’s channel.Subscribe to my channel.  I’m only a third of the way through it. I will be adding to the notes below. It’s not poorly written overall, as you’re led to believe, and the melodramatic flourishes are only there in traces. It’s as much politicalContinue reading “Mein Kampf and Torah walk into a podcast…”