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”
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Two Goys and a Jew
Good Torah Talk with the irrepressible iconoclast Luke Ford and Casey the Classicist. Prominent guests next week. 0:15 Sukkot. 2:15 The subject today, Andrew Joyce’s essay, The Alt Right and the Homosexual Question. 3:05 Luke opens talking about Dennis Prager’s essay from 1989, Judaism, Homosexuality and Civilization: When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled intoContinue reading “Two Goys and a Jew”
Speaking dead of the ill
Hugh Hefner went with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an exhausted meh. I confess I haven’t the heart to read any of the boilerplate fill-in-the-name send-offs that collect like plates of food brought to the mourning family–which is supposed to be us–when one of these “icons” passes. A boomer’s fate is to age outContinue reading “Speaking dead of the ill”
Science and Religion
It strikes me Western society in the post-Enlightenment was far less devout in enforcing the belief inChristianity than it is now in enforcing the belief in racial and sexual equality. But it’s really in the nature of our new quasi-religion. You didn’t have to accost your fellows at work, school, or on the street toContinue reading “Science and Religion”
Police Tactics and Performance Art
Characterizing last Saturday’s “free speech” demonstration in Boston as a dangerous “white supremacist” gathering, opposed by principled, peaceful protest, is an open conspiracy. The conspiracy isn’t just open to public view, it’s open to public participation. The mayor and media’s histrionics prompted tens of thousands to turn out, as if to a casting call for a reality show whereContinue reading “Police Tactics and Performance Art”
Today in Dispossession
Yesterday at the annual Netroots Nation conference a white candidate for the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor was “de-platformed“, in-the-parlance-of-our-time, when a gang of black activists surrounded her and shouted her down, demanding we “trust black women.” Stacey Evans is a state House representative running for governor against Stacey Abrams, Who Is Black, Peace Be Upon HerContinue reading “Today in Dispossession”
Appropriate that which is Appropriate
It’s important to understand we’re in the appropriation phase of “civil rights”, a period of wealth confiscation and privilege transfer from white to non-white. From culture to commerce new terms and limits are being rationalized as necessary racial justice as professions, cultural domains and even physical spaces are carved out from which whites are toContinue reading “Appropriate that which is Appropriate”
Still Life and Live Painting
“Is that the Whiskey Bar back there?” I asked the only other guy to turn up at the wrought iron gate leading to an alley behind the bar I’d found locked earlier. “Yeah. You don’t go in this way though. The front doors open at ten.” “I see.” Someone had told me the event beganContinue reading “Still Life and Live Painting”
I believe children are the dystopian future
“We need to be allies to children. Children do not have the capacity to articulate their feelings, they do not have power over their own beings to come to the rallies…they are not in control of their own destiny. They need to see you, transgender children need to see you, transgender children, even those whoContinue reading “I believe children are the dystopian future”
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