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Back in 2008 I asked my dad how many Madonna songs he could name. He could only think of one: “Like a Virgin.” I found that amusing since Madonna had been an omnipresent cultural icon for a quarter of a century. (more…)
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Back in 2008 I asked my dad how many Madonna songs he could name. He could only think of one: “Like a Virgin.” I found that amusing since Madonna had been an omnipresent cultural icon for a quarter of a century. (more…)
2023 was the year when all of the dissident Right’s most fanciful, pie-in-the-sky “what ifs” came true. What if an eccentric billionaire came along and used his vast fortune to give us a platform? What if some high-profile Conservatism Inc. shills got red-pilled and started preaching White Nationalist talking points? What if the Overton window shifted so far to the Right that the Jewish question became mainstream? (more…)
Hamas fighters attacked Israeli military positions and settlements near Gaza on October 7 and took the Israelis completely by surprise. Around 1,400 Israelis, many of them soldiers, were killed, and hundreds of Israeli civilians were taken captive to be used as barter in the eventual ceasefire negotiations. (more…)
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Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein tells the story of a young scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who embarks on a twisted scientific experiment to reanimate a reconstructed human corpse, creating new life. When his experiment succeeds, he is horrified by the monster he has created. The creature escapes into the world but is rejected by humanity, which sees him as an abomination. (more…)
Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke is Christopher Caldwell’s excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, but in a less sober and more opinionated tone, and with more speculation on what’s to be done about the predicament. While both books get the point across, Hanania’s trying to get several other points across that distract from the central thesis: Our legal system contains a civil rights ratcheting mechanism that requires all corporations and organizations to promote a “Leftist” (anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight) political agenda. (more…)
“The [scariest] shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” — Albert Allen Bartlett
To procreate, people need to be sociable enough to meet someone and decisive enough to choose them. Similarly, to make money they need to pick a career and shut out all other options. Such people excel in getting into power and then idiotically doing nothing as the world collapses around them. (more…)