Tag Archives: politics

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”

Climates of Cluelessness

Political hate creates its own “climate” or “environment” according to those protesting (and reporting on) the seemingly endless acts of racist terror, many of them not proven hoaxes, occurring on college campuses. There’s irony in how the actual physical environment of the American university, itself a product of that demonic white supremacy (Steve Sailer hasContinue reading “Climates of Cluelessness”

Conformity is Good, Apathy is Great

The New Yorker has published an interesting and dangerously close to fair profile of Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff broadcast.Enoch: “If you’re a liberal, you’ve never thought twice, you’ve never reconsidered, you’ve absorbed what you were taught in the government schools and by the TV.” A liberal now is simply someone who has stopped thinkingContinue reading “Conformity is Good, Apathy is Great”

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”

More on the NFL

The military has long used spectator sports to target mostly young white men for recruitment. This is coupled with a strong emphasis on patriotism in such as truck commercials–appealing to the fathers of those same young men. After 9/11 and through the second Iraq invasion this grew in intensity and became just one more reason,Continue reading “More on the NFL”

A Note on the NFL

But for a shocking exposure to it last Thanksgiving, I haven’t watched the NFL on television for years as part of a deliberate decision to cut spectator sports entirely out of my life, finally. Football was the last to go. Objectively I love the game, even in its perverse aspects: its violence, its physical specialization,Continue reading “A Note on the NFL”

What’s in a Name?

In denying Robert Lee a desirable assignment because his name incidentally causes a (questionable) racial offense between two groups, neither of which he belongs to, did ESPN violate civil rights law? Lee is discriminated against by default: Asian man can’t do this (granted, very particular, silly-ass) thing, because it would constitute an offense upon blacks by whites. Well,Continue reading “What’s in a Name?”

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”