Arnold Rothstein (image from The Mob Museum)
Arnold Rothstein (image from The Mob Museum)
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Arnold Rothstein is one of the most prominent figures in the history of organized crime in the United States. Born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1882, Rothstein established himself as the kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York City over the course of the first two decades of the twentieth century. (more…)
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If Holden Caulfield did battle with the phonies, Howie Carr does it with hacks. Howie is a Boston journalist whose mischievous face is a combination of Jimmy Cagney and Mephistopheles, offering Irish bravado and tempting the reader, listener, or viewer — he’s done his act for all three — to see the facts and get angry. In Paper Boy, Howie’s memoir, there’s a lot to get angry about, but almost every page bristles with laugh-out-loud moments. (more…)
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As I watched Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live discussing the ongoing saga of rapper Kanye West and basketball star Kyrie Irving’s conflicts with the Jews, I was reminded of something I have always known but never seriously considered until now: the nature of mafias. Mafias maintain power in two ways: They deny that they themselves exist, and they enforce silence upon anyone inclined to say that they do. Total silence means total power. (more…)
Nathan Perlman, the Jewish New York Congressman who teamed up with Jewish organized crime to take down the German-American Bund in the 1930s.
Nathan Perlman, the Jewish New York Congressman who teamed up with Jewish organized crime to take down the German-American Bund in the 1930s.
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The expression “Punch a Nazi” originated in early 2017 when then White Nationalist figurehead Richard Spencer was sucker-punched by some cowardly antifa goon while giving an interview. For many months after, the Left crowed about all the glory that comes with punching Nazis while fretting ever so slightly about things such as free speech and freedom of assembly. (more…)
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“Hey, Ma! Look at my shoes! Aren’t they great?”
“Oh my God! You look like a gangster.”
— Goodfellas
Gangster movies, like war films and Westerns, are not simply a part of the American cinematic tradition, but a component in the collective psyche of its people. The well-dressed gentleman rogue who sees violence as a necessary part of business, and business as essentially a family or quasi-familial operation, is iconic. Crime, business, and family (or surrogate family) are intertwined. (more…)