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Cowboys and Insinuations

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and allies have charged General Kelly’s “empty barrel” remark is racist. Everyone laughed: there’s no traditional connotation between the two. But I like to think Kelly’s opponents get it, just like I do: an “empty barrel” making a lot of noise is a black mediocrity making of herself a spectacle. Weary whitesContinue reading “Cowboys and Insinuations”

When Dindu Meets GI Joe

Those charging that General Flynn’s criticism of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is racist aren’t entirely wrong. I don’t take racism as it’s defined seriously, and I don’t imagine the general is personally “racist” or motivated by racial animus. But in adding to his criticism of her behavior towards Trump the charge of an earlier graceless publicContinue reading “When Dindu Meets GI Joe”

Grooming is Essential

A documentary about Hollywood’s boy problem, An Open Secret, is being shared on Vimeo because it can’t get a distributor, and it’s not hard to see why. It isn’t just that powerful people in Hollywood are threatened. The Narrative itself is threatened. At the center of the scandal is Mark Collins-Rector, who created something called theContinue reading “Grooming is Essential”

A Narrative’s Progress

Feminism’s already quickening pace, the reaction to Donald Trump and now the Harvey Weinstein scandal has tipped us, as if overnight, into a new regime of expanded prohibition and harsher sanctions for politically incorrect speech. Mainstream entertainers are wed to the Narrative. But those entertainers weren’t always mainstream and the Narrative appropriates more and moreContinue reading “A Narrative’s Progress”

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Gender Studies Have Got to Go

Breitbart: [Camille] Paglia argued that active programs in the [women’s studies] field were thrown together out of the urgency to highlight women’s issues in the curriculum of the American academy. “The administrators wanted to solve a public relations problem. They had a situation with very few women faculty nationwide, at the time when the women’sContinue reading “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Gender Studies Have Got to Go”